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Custom HTML Website v Wordpress

  • by Magellan
  • 17-04-2023

 

Custom HTML Website v Wordpress


Whether a custom-built HTML website or WordPress is better for your needs depends on several factors, including your technical expertise, your website's functionality requirements, and your budget.


If you can afford to hire a skilled web designer to build and manage your website, it can be a better option than trying to build and manage a WordPress site yourself, especially if you do not have the technical skills or time required for website design and maintenance.


A skilled web designer can bring a wealth of experience and expertise to your project. They have complete control over the code ensuring that your website is built to meet your specific needs and goals, and that it is optimised for performance, security, user experience and search engine optimisation (SEO). They can also help you with ongoing website maintenance and updates, ensuring that your site remains up-to-date and secure over time.


While WordPress can be a powerful tool for website design and management, it can also be complex and time-consuming to learn and use effectively, especially for those without prior experience.


WordPress sites can be vulnerable to security issues if not properly maintained, and customisation options may be limited without custom coding. Additionally, certain functionality may require the use of paid plugins or themes.


Some common tasks involved in managing a WordPress site include:

  1. Updating WordPress core, themes, and plugins: WordPress regularly releases updates to address security issues, add new features, and improve performance. These updates need to be installed and tested on the site to ensure that everything is working properly.
  2. Creating and editing content: This includes creating new pages and posts, adding images and videos, and updating existing content as needed.
  3. Optimising for SEO: This involves ensuring that the site is properly optimised for search engines, including using relevant keywords, optimising images and videos, and creating meta descriptions and tags.
  4. Monitoring and managing comments: If your site allows comments, you'll need to monitor and manage them to ensure that they are appropriate and don't contain spam or other unwanted content.

The time required for these tasks can vary depending on the size and complexity of the site and the frequency of updates. Additionally, some tasks may require technical expertise or familiarity with WordPress, which can increase the time required.


However, with a custom built fully managed HTML website you have nothing to worry about.


Spend more time to managing your business not your website!

Andrew went beyond our expectations when looking for someone to help design our website.

Without asking, Andrew took information, photos and reviews from our Facebook and Instagram accounts, adding them to the design of our website, making the whole process so much easier than expected with a far better result than we could've hoped for.

Nothing was too much trouble, regardless of how many changes we wished to make through the design process. We would recommend Andrew of Magellan Design 100% With our website now live, we're confident we're going to attract new customers and it's all thanks to Andrew.

Les Deux LacsFrance

Magellan Design has provided an excellent, comprehensive service that is tailored to our business needs.

Highly professional, response times are always good, explanations and advice always clear, to the point and helpful. Highly recommended.

Château de LarrouzéFrance

I would like to thank Andrew at Magellan Design for not only delivering our website on time and within budget, but surpassing all our expectations with such a brilliant booking system.

Our customers love the booking system and I find the admin area very easy to use, Andrew has always been very patient and is a pleasure to work with. I have absolutely no hesitation in recommending Magellan Design.

Saint BarberAustria

Excellent service and design work!

We, Art Studio Felix Anaut, have worked with Magellan Design on various projects, video, web, etc., and attention to client, attention to detail has been superb, plus great design results. For which we have had excellent feed back from our contacts..

Studio Felix AnautSpain

Andrew of Magellan design has designed and built a fantastic new website for Worsley Woodworking.

Working with Andrew was stress free and a joy. I am really impressed with the outcome and the smooth road we took getting there. Andrew clearly has an eye for detail and the experience to match; I would highly recommend Magellan Design.

Worsley WoodworkingUK

We somewhat stumbled across Magellan Design after reading a newspaper article offering support to small businesses during this dreadful Covid’19 pandemic. And what a fabulous ’stumble’ it proved to be!

Despite the challenges of communication and being unable to meet in person Andrew of Magellan provided our business with an excellent and effective bespoke online ordering system for our pizza takeaway service, instantly understanding our needs. But arguably the speed and efficiency of the launch of an event booking system was incredible and even more impressive.

At any time of day Andrew has been available to support our business. Thanks so much the kind assistance which has been sincerely appreciated by us all at Team Sorrel.

The Sorrel HorseUK