Honestly, my life has changed as a web developer now that WordPress has come to town. Having been coding websites since Netscape (which is pre-Internet Explorer – so a long, long time ago in web-years) I have had my share of having to create every type of functionality from scratch: Web forms, drop down navigation, blog style postings, password protected content – all had to be laboriously designed, coded and tested.
Ah, but everything has changed now. WordPress plugins that can greatly enhance your website’s functionality can easily be downloaded and installed in just minutes – providing your customers with targeted, customized, and engaging content.
I have slowly been transferring all the websites I manage (the list is long!) to WordPress because it is also so much easier to manage – the end user can actually get in there and make most of their own changes – which cuts me out of the loop completely (hurray!)
Long gone are the days of static, brochure like websites. Now, websites are expected to do much more, and to be more sophisticated. You can’t just sit back and wait for your customers to come to you and to hope they stay. You need to engage your site visitor and interact with them. If you don’t, your competitor who does will get all the traffic.
So, fire up that WordPress site and start engaging with your customers by using the myriad of WordPress plugin options that make creating a social, engaging, and ultimately successful online presence so easy.
Barbara is a Web Designer at Today's Admin Virtual Assistants She has an MBA in Information Technology and over twelve years experience in all stages of website development. She is experienced in installing and customizing a wide range of applications; including Joomla, Drupal, and WordPress. As a developer, she has designed, developed and implemented web based applications in SQL, Javascript and PHP, and is also highly skilled in front-end development using HTML and CSS. Other skills include SEO optimization, customizing email campaigns, web ads and banners. She loves to learn new technologies and best practice techniques for designing fast-loading, standards compliant, cross-browser websites.
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