Why Professional Designers Use WordPress?
Usability, Adaptability, and Ease of use of the platform
WordPress is the world’s most popular content management system (CMS) with over 24% of all websites on the internet using it. The tool essentially takes away the worry of having to build and design a website from scratch (a long and elaborate task). With its beautiful and aesthetic WordPress Themes, the tool offers you the luxury of having an existing layout to work on. While there are numerous digital publishing platforms and content management systems out there (such as Joomla, Weebly, and Drupal), WordPress has solidified its position as the top tool for designing and deploying a website.
Today, most professional designers make use of WordPress for building websites. There are several reasons behind this including usability, adaptability, and ease of use of the platform. We have highlighted the key reasons as to why professional designers prefer WordPress over all other content management systems:
- Easy to use:
The topmost reason for choosing WordPress is because it is much simpler and easier than having to code thousands of lines for the design. WP Themes provides professional designers a starting point to customize an already existing layout and enhance it to suit their client’s requirements. This makes it easier to code, debug, and implement the website design. Not only this but the fact that WordPress itself has a very short learning curve and is incredibly easy to use makes it convenient for designers to use the tool rather than write their own code.
- Search Engine Optimization:
One of the biggest challenges for website designers is to make sure that the design of a website is compliant with the rules and regulations set by search engines. This process is known as search engine optimization and improves the websites online visibility (by improving its search engine rankings). The best part about WordPress is that it is not only user-friendly but search engine friendly as well. The coding and layout behind all WordPress designs follow best practices to attract the attention of search engines.
This is a solid start for a professional designer to implement onsite optimization. The designer can now provide keyword research and make sure the website pages, titles, tags, content and overall structure are optimized for your target keywords.
- Powerful built-in features:
If you are a smartphone owner then you must have heard the phrase “there is an app for that”. Likewise, with WordPress, the most popular phrase is “there is a plugin for that”. No matter what functionality or design element you are trying to add, you can (almost) always find a WordPress plugin for it and simply integrate into the website (and customize it when needed). This extends the services that designers offer since they can now fulfill a variety of needs with the help of these WordPress plugins.
Nowadays, the trend of coding websites from scratch is on a decline particularly because of the rise of digital publishing platforms and content management systems such as WordPress. These tools have made it easier, simpler, and quicker for designers to create a layout for a website without having to write (and debug) thousands of lines of code themselves, thus saving the customer thousands of dollars.