I have used WordPress to build websites for over six months. Over that time I built about a dozen self-hosted web sites. I have fifteen years’ professional experience building web sites and web applications, so I have a solid foundation to compare against my WordPress experience. I have no experience working with other popular tools [...]
When I started using WordPress, I needed a place to host the websites I was doing for myself, my friends, and some non-profits, but I didn’t know which hosting service to use. There were a lot of them. Here are some things that I knew I wanted: Host that was available (always up). Host that had [...]
Once we had WordPress installed and working, it was time to make the web site look nice. We wanted it to look like our current web site, but with a new color pallet. WordPress is great about separating the function from the look and feel. It uses themes to control the site layout. What were the options for getting [...]
So, about two years ago my daughter-in-law opened a yarn store (where you buy yarn to knit www.lbyarnco.com), and she hired some web developers to build a site for her. They used WordPress. I didn’t get it, but since I was her main tech support, I started working on it and was able to easily [...]