Custom HTML or WordPress, it's Time to Decide
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Today I start the face to face interviews with website companies. So far most have pushed WordPress, few have offered either and one insisted on Joomla.
Our 50+ products and services are primarily customized, so we sell -10 on our shopping cart. We rely primarily on organic Google rankings, SEO and content is critical.
What do you, my fellow Mozzers, recommend for our next website platform for our mobile world and Google friendliness?
TY,
KJr
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Did you decide on a platform yet? this was posted months ago, and was curious to your decision. Other mozers are recommending Shopify. I"m a WP girl myself, so I lean that way. Just curious as to the final verdict.
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I agree with Ikkie,
My company have just gone through this as we went up against a competitor that offer custom HTML. We won the contract based on the fact that cost was a deciding factor.
Forgetting the initial cost of the website design and build we where very up front with the client regarding changes that they would need to have done moving forward.
Ikkie is right, with a HTML Custom site, you will have to pay for all of the amends to the site moving forward which over time can begin to add up.
There are some great templates out their for Wordpress that you can really make your own. I personally recommend looking a the Genesis Framework and a few of the templates available.
Hope that helps,
Stefan
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Wordpress is a powerful piece of software that allows people with minimal knowledge of web design set up a web site fairly quickly. And for personal use it is unsurpassed. However, for business use you have to question whether it is a good choice to use software that is regularly hacked, offers slow performance and requires continual technical attention.
Remember that you are at the whim of other developers, not just for Wordpress itself but for each theme and plugin, who have no relationship with you, and certainly no obligation to you. You rely on them to write secure and professional code, when most of them write it as a hobby.
That’s before you consider that you will be forced to make compromises with the design and operation of the site. Your business is unique and your website should reflect that.
Unless the budget is exceptionally tight, it is often better to get a website developed properly at the start. A website is often the first (and potentially the last) thing people will see about your business. It’s therefore important, and more efficient in the long run to get it right first time!
I suggest you to read the following article it may help you to understand batter which one is batter for you.
My preferrence would be custom solution.
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