Living in a digital world means that a website is now a necessity for businesses no matter how big or small. Not having a website for your business can lose you a number of great opportunities. A website also helps your business increase its visibility in the market. But there are many options when it comes to creating websites. For simplicity sake, we’ve narrowed them down into two ways: CMS (Content Management System) or Hard Coded.
So, What’s the Difference?
CMS: A CMS is a tool that allows non-technical users to create, edit, and publish content. One of the most popular CMS is WordPress, which is a free web software designed for creating template-based websites or blogs.
Hard Coded: A Hard-coded website requires Frameworks like Laravel, CodeIgniter, jQuery and many more. Basically, it uses specialized tools that require skilled programmers to make the website.
Before deciding which one’s for you, we’ll lay out a few keynotes to help you make a more informed choice about what kind of website you want for your business.
Figure out how big your website is.
If your website has hundreds of pages, CMS is better for that. Adding hundreds of pages manually will take up too much time. But say you only have a few pages that you need for your website, you can use a hard-coded website which also loads faster than those that employ a CMS. It may make sense to have the team at Your Virtual People hard code some of your pages.
How often do you need to update your website and do you have the time for it?
There are a lot of business owners that attempt to build their own websites using WordPress and other CMSs. Unfortunately, they quickly find out how hard it is to make their websites look and function the way they want it to without some web knowledge– despite the ads that say anyone can make a website! There is also the issue with updating the website. CMS’ need to be maintained as well. The CMS and additional plugins will need to be updated on a regular basis to avoid any security vulnerabilities.
This is the perfect time to have the professionals at Your Virtual People take away your stress and have them level up your website! It not only saves time, but it also saves you money and stress so put down your keyboard and pick up the phone and call us at +1300 800 965 (AU) or +1 678 701 8837 (US).
Decisions… Decisions…
As you can see, there are a lot of factors to be considered when choosing the best path for your website. If you’re still unsure whether you should go for CMS or Hard-coded, we at Your Virtual People can make recommendations based on your needs. We’ll help you understand exactly what your business needs to drive results.
