Well it’s been a busy few weeks. For most of that time we have been transferring most of our websites to WordPress. The websites in question are very niche product sites but they have been languishing in the doldrums for quite some time now due to neglect on our part. We had been concentrating most of our time on just a couple of sites which has seemed to work but at the expense of the rest. We just felt it was time to upgrade them and bring some new life into them.
They were all websites we had created using Frontpage which is a great website editor but we really wanted to have our websites accessible online so we could access them from anywhere in the world. We both love travel and we don’t want to rely on always having to lug along a laptop with us to work on our websites. Having said that however, neither of us has ever gone travelling without our laptops but at least if our laptop goes missing with WordPress we can easily head down to a local Internet cafe and logon and get to work.
WordPress is also so much easier to work with. To add a page to Frontpage requires at least three times the effort and takes so much longer. With WordPress you can have the page up in minutes and published to the Internet.
WordPress is also very simple to use. It may take a little while to figure out the functions but it is simple enough for anyone to get the hang of and you don’t need html experience.
And when it comes down to it, Google loves WordPress. We can add a post to one of our sites and within half an hour it can be on the front page of Google search.
We had also tried Drupal in the past. Drupal is a cotent management system and very sophisticated but after about three weeks we just had to give it up. For one thing, the site kept crashing for no reason whatsoever and everything we did seemed to involve about three steps compared to the one step in WordPress.
It took us three weeks to get the site to an almost workable condition and even then it still needed more work. We decided at that point to give up on Drupal and move to WordPress. It took us about a day to get that site into WordPress and up and published. Compared to the 3 weeks of Drupal this was a major difference so we haven’t looked back since then.
Do you use WordPress or another form of blogging or content management system? Which do you prefer?
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