Let's talk about content management systems (CMS)

Web design is such a sleazy business these days. As a business owner or manager you have a lot of options available. You can do it yourself, choose a web designer, go with a company like Squarespace or GoDaddy and basically fill in the blanks to create a site that is based on databases that are generally attractive, mostly meet design standards and provide you with some functionality . Or you can hire a designer to create your website. The latter is by far the most expensive, but will generally have the best results.

There are also options like WordPress.com or Tumblr. These are more oriented towards bloggers and are quite effective in creating a functional site based on standards, these pages are still quite discreet in the feature section. If you want functionality, there are many add-ons and modules that can be added if you have "know how". This is probably not a simple task for a non-designer / encoder, so be careful as installing the wrong code can block your site or, worse, make it unsafe for your visitors. I will not address the damage that security issues can cause to your site, your business as well as the financial consequences of a security breach, that is, for another article.

Let's talk WordPress

WordPress is the number one blog visitor management check-in kiosks in the world at the time of this article. From August 2013, WordPress was used as the platform chosen with the best websites on the Internet. Almost 20% of the most important 1 million websites on the Internet are built in WordPress. You need to understand that there are basically two flavors of WordPress. There's WordPress pre-engineered and hosted on WordPress.com, and then there's the WordPress.org version. Although WordPress.com is good, it's still somewhat diluted, and the security restrictions don't really allow you to experiment with the nearly 30,000 add-ons offered on WordPress.org.

My personal preference is to work with the downloadable version of WordPress from site.org. Some of the most beautiful and functional pages on the Internet are built on this platform. Frankly, I know I sound a bit like a "Homer" for WordPress, but honestly, if you had asked me about WordPress a year ago, I would have said, don't bother, it's rubbish.

However, I began to think that there must be a reason why WordPress is so popular. The conclusion I reached after approx. six months of work in several different places was that WordPress is truly amazing. I think most additions work quite well. Which is unusual for an open source platform, and support for the platform and add-ons is exceptional. In the last year, I have created some amazing websites for personal and professional use. WordPress is easy to use for the end user and works well with most extensions and add-ons.