Imagine Not Needing a Webmaster

There’s been a revolution taking place over the last few years. The one I’m speaking of refers to the way websites are developed from scratch.

Having developed over 100 websites during the past 12 years I can tell you that it’s never been easier ever to start a website and get it online and available to the public… selling whatever it is you want to sell.

In the past with using DreamWeaver, FrontPage, or some other website development software it would take a couple of months to create a good site of 50 pages and get all the buges worked out of it.

It took a good year to learn the ins and outs of the web dev. software packages I used and it took 10+ years to learn SEO and how to be found in Google on the keyword terms I desperately needed to be found for.

The sites I made before were limited by my own creativity. I don’ t have an endless supply of templates running through my head and an endless variety of choices to present to clients. I usually chose one of about 15 styles of website and went with that.

In short – web development was a humongous undertaking before and only  people that had dedicated themselves to it 100% could figure it all out.

Times have REALLY CHANGED.

Today you can sign up at Godaddy.com for a domain name and server space (shared hosting), download the latest version of WordPress.org software. Upload the WordPress files to your server by FTP, install, and have a live website in a matter of about 2 hours.

The variety of templates you have to choose from is almost infinite – there are thousands and thousands of WordPress “themes” as they’re called, to choose from.

If you wanted to learn how to maintain your site built on the WordPress platform it would take about 30 hours of time to really get into it and figure it all out. We offer a WordPress elearning course here on site for those of you that want to learn all  you can about it -and never need a webmaster again.

If you learn the WordPress platform – and then learn a little bit about tweaking CSS and PHP – the code behind the websites you’ll be much farther down the path of self-sufficiency and it will be a huge cost you no longer need to outsource.

Oh, did I mention that WordPress is VERY search engine friendly? It’s optimized right from the start – AND, there are additional plugins you can get to tweak your SEO (search engine optimization) even more – to really max out your Google rankings. This too is included in our WordPress elearning course.

Seriously consider using WordPress for your business website. We use it here and at more than twenty of our other sites. It just makes a lot of sense.