The rebuild of the new A-Connect website is almost complete – and it has taken less than 2 days! OK it’s not quite finished but it’s definitely an improvement and is very now!
Thanks to the fantastic Wordpress software we have been able to build a feature rich, easy to use, search engine friendly and up to date website in no time at all.
Wordpress has come a long way since the last time I looked at it a few years ago. In those days it was pretty much exclusively a blogging tool. These days however, with so many additional add ons and settings, it is possible to create sites to fit a wide range of specifications.
The features I really like and have used on the new site include:
- SEO enhancements using All in One SEO Pack
- Auto XML sitemap generation using the highly configurable Google XML sitemaps plugin
- Super fast, configurable caching with WP Super Cache
- And a neat little portfolio plugin which automatically generates thumbnails of the website
Whilst I love Wordpress for my own personal use, I regard myself as being reasonably tech savvy. I still won’t be building all my future client’s websites with Wordpress as I think the admin side of things is just a little too bloated for basic websites. Yes, it is possible to lock down a lot of the functionallity and amke the back end more simple, but all the same most clients I deal with want something really simple!