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I was surprised to see a multi-million dollar corporation (nameless) using wordpress. It's slow and bloated but I guess it gets the job done. Naturally they wen

by yogo 13y ago

I was surprised to see a multi-million dollar corporation (nameless) using wordpress. It's slow and bloated but I guess it gets the job done. Naturally they went to someone and said they needed a site, then that someone did what they do best and installed wordpress with some theme. Naturally when it came time to make certain changes or something broke the installer couldn't do anything about it. This is a B2B company and I doubt any sales come from their site so from a business point of view it's understandable how a cheap WP installation got there. However, in my experience it always turns out being more expensive down the road. There's money to be made with broken wordpress installations and moving sites off wordpress altogether.

tluyben2 13y ago
Yep, and that's were it gets very expensive very fast and that's also were 'cheap' programmers cannot help at all. I have 3 friends who quit their jobs and went into website creation. They make simple sites based on WP and make nice money with it. They look mostly horrible but clients can talk to them on their level and feel comfortable. These sites go between E1500-2500 per site. Now when anything breaks / doesn't work / has issues, they have to hire someone to fix it and they have to trust this person; in most cases, the cost of fixing/adding on by this 'more capable' person is more expensive than the site was in the first place. So it's a good market for capable coders / admins to dive into. Optimizing, securing, fixing, extending. All money makers far beyond the boring setup of the initial site.
- yogo 13y ago
  That's something I don't think this article covered. Sure technologies like WP make it easier for someone less skilled to accomplish something but then demand is created for others that are more skilled to fix, support, customize like you said.

by yogo 13y ago

tluyben2 13y ago

Yep, and that's were it gets very expensive very fast and that's also were 'cheap' programmers cannot help at all. I have 3 friends who quit their jobs and went into website creation. They make simple sites based on WP and make nice money with it. They look mostly horrible but clients can talk to them on their level and feel comfortable. These sites go between E1500-2500 per site. Now when anything breaks / doesn't work / has issues, they have to hire someone to fix it and they have to trust this person; in most cases, the cost of fixing/adding on by this 'more capable' person is more expensive than the site was in the first place. So it's a good market for capable coders / admins to dive into. Optimizing, securing, fixing, extending. All money makers far beyond the boring setup of the initial site.

yogo 13y ago
That's something I don't think this article covered. Sure technologies like WP make it easier for someone less skilled to accomplish something but then demand is created for others that are more skilled to fix, support, customize like you said.