A while back I was having a discussion with an acquaintance who ran the North Walsham Garden Centre in Norfolk. He expressed an interest in having his current website redesigned and was fed up with having to go to his current developer to do even tiny text amends to his site.
I suggested he consider Wordpress, as this offers the user a great level of content management, is well supported in the industry and with its inbuilt SEO tools is great for Google. His concern was the potential cost - but then isn't every client concerned with the cost?
I reviewed his current site, which had been neglected over the preceding years for a variety of reasons and now was visually getting left behind by his competition. I decided that I could certainly build him a new site using Wordpress as a CMS platform.
The design, like the final site structure, was kept very simple and clean while presenting all the information that the client wanted in an informative manner. It may not be the most technically advanced website ever built - it didn't have to be! Do not assume that Wordpress means complicated and expensive, that's not the case. It can be as complicated or as simple as the brief demands.
The website is performing very well and the client is very happy and, apart from a bit of periodic Wordpress maintenance on my part, the client updates the content themselves.
