Web Design With WordPress

At Rock Solid Marketing, we use WordPress for our website design projects.

WordPress? But isn’t that, like, for blogs?

Fair question. In its early years, WordPress was essentially a blogging platform. But now, it’s a fully featured content management system that lets you build fairly complex websites. You don’t even need to have a blog as part of your site.

In short: WordPress is free, easy to use, and lets you build very functional and user-friendly websites. Here’s a little more on why we design websites with WordPress.

Anyone Can Build A Website Using WordPress

In the early days of the internet, you needed to know HTML and CSS at a minimum to build websites. Now, all you need to do is install WordPress and a WordPress theme you like, and configure your new website using the dashboard settings. You could build your whole website without seeing a line of code (though you can do a lot more with it if you know how to edit the stylesheet).

While anyone can learn the basics, the more you know about web design, the more you can do when it comes to building a strong website with WordPress. That’s where we come in. Let us build a professional website for your business, which you’ll then be able to update and maintain yourself, with no coding necessary.

So many WordPress themes to choose from.

Countless Themes To Make Your Site Look The Way You Want

Every WordPress site must have a theme activated for its content to display. The theme dictates what your site will look like: from the font to the colours to the page layout. Thousands of WordPress themes are available, both free and paid. Free themes tend to be basic and limited in functionality, while paid themes offer more page layouts as well as dedicated customer support. There are themes to fit all sorts of businesses, from photography to portfolios to ecommerce and more.

Best of all, you can customise your theme to make your site look the way you want it. Many themes come with an options panel in the WordPress dashboard, where you can add a logo, change fonts and colours, and alter the page background. Of course, it helps to know a little about WordPress and web design to take full advantage of your theme’s capabilities.

Plugins Add Extra Functionality To Your Website

Similar to themes, there are thousands of free plugins that can make your website do really useful things. If your business needs an online storefront, plugins can add ecommerce features like shopping carts, and others add booking systems. If you want to gain followers and subscribers, there are plenty of social media sharing and newsletter signup plugins out there. There are even plugins that help your site run faster and help you optimise it for Google.

WordPress Sites Are SEO Friendly

WordPress produces clean, search-friendly pages out of the box, which gives you a good starting point for SEO. You can improve your site’s SEO further with a few tweaks in the dashboard, such as the format of your page titles and URL slugs, and there are several SEO plugins you can install to optimise individual pages and posts on your WordPress site.

Large Organisations Use WordPress Too

Think WordPress is just for people who don’t know much about coding or only need small, simple websites? Not true. Large businesses, universities and media companies use WordPress to power their websites too. If it can handle sites that size, it can handle yours.

Does your business need a new website? Check out the web design services we offer at Rock Solid Marketing and contact us.