Building with templates is gaining acceptance as a way to build professional websites. Increasingly, you are seeing themes used by institutions, businesses of all sizes and for event and specialty sites. The advantages of using a content management system have become too great to ignore. With the proliferation of quality templates, building with WordPress has gone from an inexpensive option championed by affiliate marketers, do-it-yourselfers and micro-agencies, to a trusted and reliable alternative for custom website development.

There are an ever increasing number of options when considering add-ons for WordPress. Some themes offer customizations, others offer advanced features. There are clubs which give you access to theme libraries and frameworks that take on the role of a complete development platform.

There are a few things to consider when choosing products for WordPress. Be wary of themes that are outdated, as many do not work with the latest versions of WordPress. Also consider doing research into the purchases you are considering. Some themes are notoriously difficult to customize, or offer tools that create more issues than they resolve.

We learned early on what developers have known from the beginning. What makes WordPress powerful are the third-party add-ons and a thriving online community. With trusted, battle tested plugins that extend the platform’s functionality at little or no cost, it is better to install those that make sense for your project, rather than buying into complete solutions that do may things only marginally well.

We also encourage our customers to select templates that are responsive. With more people set to browse the web on their smart devices than from their computers, it is more important to ensure that your website look and function great everywhere.

On many occasions I have seen clients buy multiple themes, before settling on a look that works well with their brand. Just because a theme looks good online, it does not mean that it will look good once you get your logo, colors and fonts in. It is not uncommon that there is disappointment once customizations are complete, and people often don’t understand why their website doesn’t look as good as the demo they viewed online.

Why WordPress?

A Professional Website that Will Grow with You

With its origins as a blogging platform, WordPress has grown to provide a complete open source solution for websites of all kinds, boasting a large 3rd party developer network, a thriving support community and an incredible team of core developers. If you build for WordPress, you are building a professional website that will work today and carry you into the future.

There are things that happen behind the scenes with a website that are important to your business, such as how well the code validates, how fast your pages load and the availability of quality add-ons. For every issue that arises when putting together a web project, WordPress has a solution.