What is a website? webpage? How would you create one? If you think FrontPage, DreamWeaver, or some other WYSIWYG HTML editors, I'm betting you are not alone.
In the last century people got educated that everyone should build a "homepage" and that instead of "coding" the page with HTML, it's easy to do with this cool editor called FrontPage.
And then came "blogging" or "webblogs" and new tools for that, and now we had blogs and webpages. Dare I say, CONFUSING! And to this day, pretty much every blogger out there (me included) have contributed to this confusion by keeping up an illusion that blog is a blog and not a website.
All this has contributed to the fact that there are a LOT OF PEOPLE out there who think that the only way to build a website is static HTML and that a blog is somehow separated from all that. So I'll share this with you right now that you can share with your friends..
Static HTML Pages Are Dead!
Take your average person who needs to create their first webpage and you'll find that they create that page with some online webpage editor provided by their internet service provider, they use FrontPage, Dreamweaver or similar HTML editors, they pick a HTML for Dummies book from library and start up the page with text editor, or take "how to build a homepage" course that is outdated for about 10 years and end up building the webpage using some of the other mentioned methods.
I tell you a secret: There are PROFESSIONAL Web Designers out there that build websites for themselves and their clients using plain HTML, either directly or using an fancy WYSIWYG editor (boosted with graphical design tools like PhotoShop). They are charging THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS (or similar value anyway) for that work.
In the end the customer, client, business - worst case: you - gets a website that is very clunky, static and looks like it was created on 1995 by a 11-year old. And the customer is happy - "Wow, I have a webpage now" - They don't know about anything else, neither the customer or the designer. Or the designer knows, but refuses to share that info with the customer.
But I'm not to mock designers or anyone else here, I'm trying to tell you that there is another way and I truly wish you will educate all your friends that there is another way..
Separate the Content from the Design
What if you want to change the colors? What if you want to add more content? What if you need to edit the content or organize it a bit differently? Go on, go and edit that HTML code, re-organize and totally re-design a website. Ask a professional do that and she'll ask anything between $100-$10000 for it.
- What if your website was powered by WordPress (or any other CONTENT MANAGEMENT system for that matter)?
- What if you could change the website design in a heart beat without losing any content.
- What if you add new content in minutes, even if you can barely double-click with your mouse?
THAT is the power of WordPress Over Static, HTML websites.
Stop wasting your time with ugly, static HTML webpages and enter the 21st century, get WordPress and never look back.
And please, please tell all your friends that they should not use FrontPage or any other static HTML editor to create their webpages!
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