As the technology industry grows more and more businesses look to the internet to host their website to attract more customers to a product, service or god they may be selling in order to boost sales and brand awareness about their company. Many companies nowadays use content management systems to achieve that but which is really the best to use for website hosting and is budget friendly? You may not know it but more than half the websites you browse or visit in day to day life are hosted by content management system known as WordPress. Yes! There are others out there like Joomla, Squarespace, Weebly, and Drupal but you know how i mentioned website hosting being budget friendly? WordPress is your go to for that!
What is WordPress?
Before you can know exactly how WordPress stands out against other content management systems. What exactly is WordPress? WordPress is a digital design tool and content management system that allows users to purchase a domain name as well as hosting space for their website to be hosted. Meaning that, although WordPress is free to sign-up for, you website won’t be visible for user to interact with or purchase stuff from until you purchase hosting space and a domain name but don’t worry—-it’s totally budget friendly to do so!
WordPress vs. Others
Budget-Friendly
Like any brand out there, you have a competition to compete with but why does WordPress take the top? Let’s start with the most frequently mentioned point so far, budget friendly. Against its competitors WordPress is totally budget friendly to have a website through. A basic hosting plan is $10 a month, while others like Squarespace, Joomula and Drupal charge more. Imagine that a large cup of coffee you get at Starbuck every week is equal to the amount you could use to take off that book review website you have always wanted to started.
Customizable
On top of being budget friendly, WordPress is completely customizable to meet your companies branding by using plugins like Elementor and Visual Composer. Elementor always you to use “building blocks” to create a functioning and visually aesthetic webpages for user experience and interaction. For example say you trying to insert a testimonial about a book that a friend read. Not only can you insert the testimonial but you can give it color and some animation to create that visual aesthetic to the user instead of scrolling past the testimonial. However when you contrast Elementor to others, you lose your freedom to customize your website based on your brand making it look like a cookie-cutter website.
On the Other Hand, you have WordPress’s Visual Composer. Visual Composer is used more for customizability but with structure. You still get to add color and implement your branding but this is something for someone that’s just using content management system plugin for the first time, I would recommend. For example, continuing with a book review website, say you want to list six recommended reading books. Three on the left and three on the right with a testimonial in the middle. With visual composer you can structure your webpage just as easy as that. Some other content management systems don’t allow as much flexibility as this.
Search-Engine Optimization (SEO)
Last but not least another great WordPress feature is the benefits of search-engine optimization. With website hosting, search-engine optimization is a great tool to have to enhance your website. WordPress offers a plugin called Yoast SEO to help give a preview and provide social media card previews for when a user is to share an article from your website. Not only does it give the user insight to share your website but also helps optimize your website so that it will drive traffic to your site via search engine search.
In Conclusion
As the technology world grows, content management systems like WordPress are always changing with it. However, WordPress versus other content management systems will seemingly remain budget-friendly, customizable and search-engine optimization friendly for companies or users to use for years to come.
