We do quite a lot of work for other design firms across the country. Lately we have noticed quite an increase in the number of projects we are ask to work on based on WordPress. It seems that the popular CMS is no longer just a tool reserved for blogs and news sites, so far we have developed themes for almost every kind of business. Long gone are also the days of glitches and buggy WYSIWYG’s (What You See Is What you Get) making WordPress in some cases unusable. For the most part, the admin system is pretty refined and user friendly.
It’s not our preferred platform (yet), but we certainly have the skills to customise any WordPress template and with it’s robust management tools and plethora of add-ons and plugins we can see why it is so popular with some of our clients. Another advantage with WordPress sites is that they are already pretty well optimised for search engines and I often find that a WordPress site will be indexed by Google, at least partially, in a few hours.
For now we are sticking with our own bespoke CMS as it’s much simpler to use and more focused than WordPress for our purposes, but we have to hand it to the hundreds of people that develop WordPress, it’s coming along nicely now!
