I’m Back…Because you told me toooo!

So I feel like I promised that I would keep updating this blog after my last semester course ended.

But then it wasn’t mandatory and life happened, as things always do. So I apologize to any internet ghosts that were actually following this, because I’m only back because it’s required by my current course for this semester. So for your reading (and my professor’s) reading pleasure, please see my below answer to the question I was asked.

1) Based on your experience with WordPress, what are your impressions with working with WordPress—the pros and cons? It started as a blogging platform but has evolved—should it still be relegated for small blogs, or do you see enterprise use?

What WordPress is good for though is giving people a great easy avenue to spill out what they have to say in an easy-to-read format. The modules are easy to grasp and it’s good for sectioning off your content into subjects and paragraphs.

My Opinion:

Here’s hoping the WordPress Gods don’t shut me down for my critiques of their website.

WordPress is a good functional site for words. It’s great for that beginning author/journalist/blogger that wants to take a dip in the shallow end of the web-design pool.

But without extra HTML knowledge or something that I’m missing, the website seems to lack features for people that actually want to make a customized website. Even just trying to figure out how to center the above-heading was a chore (which btw, was editing in html and adding a <center></center> tag)

Writing this blog post right now, I have to write everything in specific blocks straight down the middle. No re-sizing, or re-arranging or including additional content. Perhaps that’s the template I chose, perhaps that’s the website, but I feel like I should know jumping into the site if I have that flexibility or not.

I’m sure that you can get someone to create a more user-friendly template or design a better layout for your site. But for someone with little financial resources or perhaps someone who isn’t even sure if it’s worth the time, WordPress limits it’s free users to a very specific set of functions.

I think that WordPress is an excellent tool for the beginner writer, or someone looking to see if website design is for them as well. All I have to do is type what I want to say, maybe add a picture block or two, and boom. Blog Post done.

And I know that some websites use WordPress for Enterprise purposes. But it’s probably more trouble than it’s worth, and for companies with any cash to spend on website design, they may be better off on a service like SquareSpace.