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So, the other day I was sitting in a meeting with a marketing director at large college in the State of Tennessee, and they asked me at the end of the meeting if I thought WordPress was the best solution for their website. What I wanted to do was get up on the table and start yelling and screaming "yes, yes, yes... you have to go with WordPress!" But that would not be as powerful as me just simply looking at the data and educating her on the fact that WordPress is the most widely used content management system (CMS) in the world, by a long shot. There is a website out there called wappalyzer.com and it’s actually also a Google Chrome browser extension the tracks millions of websites across the world and understands usage statistics for everything from the website content management software (CMS) being used, to payment gateways and even marketing automation software. I have watched Wappalyzer grow exponentially over the last year or so, and aggregate data from more and more websites across the world.The number one thing that stands out to me is that WordPress is far and away the most used content management system in the world at 80.6%. That's right, 80.6% of the websites in the world use WordPress. And if you don't think Wappalyzer is a legitimate source, consider the fact that companies like Google, Amazon, IBM and others use it to understand what technology is being used on web apps and websites across the globe. So my question to you, small business owners and mid-level marketers, is - why would you want to go with anything other than WordPress? It’s free, open source software. There’s hundreds of thousands of themes out there that you can buy for less than $100, and then you can have just about any web developer in the world (worth their salt) work with you to help you get past whatever blockers or hurdles you're having. Many clients have come to us after struggling and fighting with Wix, SquareSpace, Drupal and other platforms, as they did not allow their websites to be the marketing tool and operations friendly system that it is supposed to be. Start with WordPress, and build the best possible website presence for your small business. And feel free to contact me directly for a free consultation at paul@datadriven.design. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/paulhickey/support

Time to update your website? WordPress versus Joomla - picking the right CMS for your needs. Need to migrate your website from Joomla to WordPress? It can be done.

It’s another potluck episode in which Wes and Scott answer your questions! This month - working with designers, criticisms of WordPress, avoiding burnout, time management, and more. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your errors, track them with Sentry. Sentry is open-source error tracking that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real time. Cut your time on error resolution from five hours to five minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code “tastytreat”. .tech Domains - Sponsor Finding a great domain name is tough with so many names already taken. If you’re looking for a domain name for your startup, side project, or anything at all, check out .tech Domains. Syntax listeners can get 90% off both one-year and five-year registration by visiting go.tech/syntax and using the coupon code “syntax”. Show Notes 5:05 - How can you help a designer understand how styling works and how layouts work in the web? In other words: How do I explain my boundaries as a front-end developer to a designer? Work closely with the designer Allow the designer to push your limits You can help them understand by: Showing them poor performing websites Showing them things that usually are taxing on the GPU to paint - rotations, background images, drop shadows, etc. Don’t be afraid to let a tough design push your boundaries 13:23 - How do you manage your time for learning new things when you have children and a daily full-time job? Those who figure out how to make it a priority will win out Family first - talk to your spouse Ask your boss for time to learn and grow Find ways to get paid for learning 19:45 - How do you deal with burnout in this constantly evolving front end tech ecosystem? Make time for hobbies away from the computer Do projects just for fun Solve your own problems Syntax 035: Keeping Up with the Codeashians Syntax 041: Preventing and Dealing with Burnout in Web Development 25:00 - Do you code at night (past 9pm)? Start your wind-down time earlier Let your brain wok on problems while you sleep Get it out of your head Listen to podcasts, audiobooks, etc. 29:23 - How do you compress your videos/audio for your courses/tutorials? Handbrake Fast 1080 Use presets Output from video editor, rip from YouTube, or compress directly from video editor 33:10 - It seems like in the web dev community, a lot of people give WordPress crap. Any idea why? WordPress is dope - people just like to complain. WordPress is often one of the first things people learn and have bad memories of it It’s easy to write bad code with WordPress It can be slow It can attract a certain type of developer 33:10 - What are some of the biggest mistakes that people make when they are learning programming and what’s the best way to overcome them? Don’t focus on too many things Don’t worry about picking the right technology Focus on the fundamentals Let your curiosity and excitement drive you Celebrate wins 40:29 - What are your best tips for writing documentation? Start with basic API documentation, them move to more “article style” docs Use tools like CodeSandbox and Swagger Syntax 073: Reading Documentation 43:08 - What are some good questions or techniques to better understand a client’s requirements? How does your business work right now? What are people coming to the website for? Questionnaires are good - they get people thinking It’s your job to understand what a client want out of a website - what problems they have and need solved 45:38 - Do you guys have any tips for taking over maintenance and development of existing websites where the previous developer is no longer reachable? Take time to asses the codebase before writing anything Learn what’s there any and why Don’t start ripping out code without understanding what’s really going on Don’t leave it worse than you found it It depends on the stack, but it’s probably worth giving it an honest go before re-writing the whole thing ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott 1: Drillbrush Bathroom Surfaces Tub, Shower, Tile and Grout All Purpose Power Scrubber Cleaning Kit Scott 2: iOttie Wes 1: Sabrent Wireless Charger Wes 2: CD Player Mount Shameless Plugs Scott’s Level Up Pro Subscription Wes’ Advanced React Course Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

Build a website in just 5 days (even if you're not techie) at www.free5daywebsitechallenge.com Already have a website? Take the Free "Jumpstart Your Website Traffic" marketing mini-course at www.jumpstartyourwebsitetraffic.com Leave a Review! HOW TO CHOOSE BETWEEN SELF-HOSTED AND FREE BLOGGING PLATFORMS I had the honor and pleasure of speaking at the Thrive Creative Conference for Bloggers last week in Austin, Texas all about how bloggers can grow their influence and how to monetize their blogs. After my talk on search engine optimization, I had quite a few bloggers come up to me and ask me a variation of this question: I’m on Blogger/SquareSpace/Wix/Weebly/WordPress.com – do I need to move to self-hosted WordPress? I’m so confused… What is self-hosted WordPress? It sounds expensive and intimidating. I really just want to blog, I don’t want to be a web developer. I hear this question a lot, so in this blog post I’m going to break it all down for you and then tell you who I think should be on self-hosted WordPress, and who can get away with using a free or subscription-based platform. SO WHAT IS SELF-HOSTED WORDPRESS? I like to think about the difference between self-hosted WordPress and free blogging platforms as the difference between owning and renting a home. When you’re renting, you get to pick a floor plan, move your furniture in, and decorate to an extent, but you can’t paint or remodel. You probably have an assigned parking space and shared areas, like a pool and fitness center. Maybe you can pay extra for a pet, or maybe they aren’t allowed. You don’t have to mow, do yard work, or fix the faucet when it starts leaking – you’ve got a landlord for that. But, the owner can decide to change anything at any time. Suddenly you get a notice that the complex no longer allows dogs over 40lbs, and you either have to move or your big fat lab is about to be homeless. Maybe you get a notice that the complex is under new management and your rent is going up. Or they decide that you violated terms of your lease and give you two weeks to move out (um, yeah, that happened to me in college – stupid roommates and their dumb parties). WHEN YOU HAVE YOUR BLOG ON BLOGGER, SQUARESPACE, WIX, WEEBLY, OR WORDPRESS.COM, YOU’RE RENTING. You get to pick your theme and customize it to an extent, you get to put your words and images on the page, but they dictate to you what functionality is available and what you can and can’t do on their platform. They take care of maintenance, but in order to keep maintenance manageable, they limit features. Because everyone is sharing resources, you have to play by their rules. WHEN YOU HAVE A SELF-HOSTED BLOG, IT’S LIKE OWNING YOUR OWN HOME. When you’re buying a home, you have thousands of floorplans to choose from, you have total autonomy to remodel to fit your personal style, and no one can tell you how big your dog can be or where to park. There are no lease agreements for you to violate. Yes, you’re also responsible for maintaining your home – but it’s not like you have to know how to be a plumber! You just have to know how to call one, explain the problem, and then pay for the repairs. And if you wanted to, you could literally pick up that whole entire house, put it on a truck, and move it somewhere else. Ever seen Haulin’ House, anyone?? You can’t do that if you’re renting! HOW TO DECIDE BETWEEN A FREE BLOGGING PLATFORM AND SELF-HOSTED WORDPRESS If you never intend to make money from your blog and it’s simply a hobby or a place for creative expression, then a free blogging platform like Blogger or WordPress.com is totally fine. But if you ever intend to make money from your blog, turn it into a business, or have it lend credibility to your personal brand or business, then I highly recommend a self-hosted WordPress site. And even if you have no plans to monetize right now, but you will in the future, start with self-hosted WordPress*. Eventually, you will outgrow the other platforms that I mentioned, just like you’ll outgrow that apartment and want the freedom, flexibility, and the unlimited possibilities that come with ownership – and moving sucks. Wanna know how I know? Because about half of my one-on-one web design clients come to me because they’ve outgrown their free/cheap blogging platforms, and it’s a lot of extra work (and expense) to move over all that old content while preserving links and social shares so they don’t lose all their hard-won page views. It’s possible, but it ain’t cheap. HOW TO START A SELF-HOSTED WORDPRESS SITE Shannon, a self-hosted site sounds like a lot of work. I’m not techie, and I don’t know how to host my own blog. I don’t know if I’m capable of doing this. I hear that a lot too, BFF! And I’m here for you. First, I don’t really like the term self-hosted, because it’s totally misleading. You actually pay a hosting company to host your blog for you, and the good ones have a one-click WordPress installation built in so that you don’t have to do anything more technical than point and click. I use and recommend Bluehost* to set up your self-hosted WordPress site. I am an affiliate partner, which means that I earn a commission at no additional cost to you when you use my link to purchase hosting – but I also have negotiated a special hosting price just for my audience that breaks down to just $2.95 a month when you lock in three years (that’s $106 for hosting, you guys, for three whole years!) Second, I walk you through EV-ERY-THING, step by step. On this page, I show you how to quickly get your hosting set up with Bluehost. I also have a free step-by-step video training called the 5 Day Website Challenge that not only shows you how to set up Bluehost but also how to actually use WordPress and set up the rest of your blog. I’m talking everything from branding to email opt-in to search engine optimization – all in a way that normal, non-techie people can understand! You can sign up for that free training here. So if you’re ready to set up your blog the right way, your first step is to get your hosting and install WordPress, and you can click here to get started with Bluehost. And I’ll be there every step of the way to help you get your blog set up the right way!

In this episode, Matt Medeiros wraps up the season interviewing Michelle Schulp from Marktime Media In Minneapolis. Michelle is an independent designer and front-end developer who works with many agencies and other freelancers. Michelle's background is in design and she is well known as a WordCamp Speaker. She loves teaching design and sharing her knowledge with the WordPress Community. Michelle also is the Director of Technology at AIGA Minnesota. Listen to this episode: Matt Report - A WordPress podcast for digital business owners Michelle Schulp on running an independent business Play Episode Pause Episode Mute/Unmute Episode Rewind 10 Seconds 1x Fast Forward 30 seconds 00:00 / 00:48:17 Subscribe Share RSS Feed Share Link Embed Download file | Play in new window | Duration: 00:48:17 What you will learn from this Episode: Michelle made a deliberate choice to stay independent and not own an agency. She realizes the challenges of managing other people in a business. (2:40) Being an independent freelancer allows you to stay flexible for traveling and working remotely. (3:54) There is a lot of overhead and “crap” when running a business. (4:04) If you make business decisions based on why you went into business in the first place you can be very successful. Ex: Your priority is to have more time for your family. (4:44) The reason to travel and speak at events allows you to teach and volunteer by giving back to the community. (7:07) 95% of Marktime Media's business comes from referrals or being known for teaching at WordCamps. (8:00) Business Growth and Success: Your personality or personal brand separates you from the crowd. (9:34) The differentiator in the WordPress space for independent freelancers now comes from service. You must be able to communicate and be responsive to the client. (10:40) Sometimes your brand is just not for everybody and it is best to qualify your business when working with a client. (12:18) Clients can try to nickel and dime you and make multiple changes when you are first starting out. You can just act as an advisor for the client that does not have a budget for the work.  (13:50) Specializing in a personality type has been how Michelle chooses her work. People need to be passionate and understand the value you offer. (15:24) Michelle often starts a project with a worksheet that asks the client how does somebody find out about your business? How would your client describe what you do? (17:13) Freelancers in the WordPress space now seem to be defining their business with what they do rather than focusing on just open source software. (19:32) WordCamps bring together people of all different levels of experience. (19:56) Future of WordPress: It seems that there are 3 levels of focus now in the WordPress world: Pagebuilders, Themes, and Gutenberg. (22:17) It is better to focus on the features that are in the client's control and their expectations of publishing content. (23:52) Module design concepts with repeatable design patterns are allowing the customer to concentrate on their content. (23:06) WordPress is still very confusing for the average client. Clients should not have to worry about the design of the website. (24:15) Michelle is keeping her eye on the changes within the WordPress Community with Gutenberg and limits what the client can change. (26:05) You will need to understand where the conflicts may come with plugins and source code when updates to WordPress occur. (35:54) There are always risks keeping up with WordPress updates. When you are familiar with the plugin author or developers in the community, you provide value by knowing what is coming and how to “fix” it.  (39:14) Skills for Independent Freelancers: It is important for the freelancer to explain what they do and where they want to concentrate. (31:08) If you want to stay proficient as a developer in WordPress you should be proficient in Javascript. (32:33) If you are going to implement and configure websites you should understand the tools available and what good code is. (33:03) You should have strong skills in a focused area rather than just general skills in WordPress. (34:17)   Episode Resources: Pagely AIGA Minnesota Atomic Design Advanced Custom Fields Gravity Forms WooCommerce Beaver Builder Rocket Genius Modern Tribe Automattic .NET To Stay in Touch with Michelle: Michelle on Twitter Michelle's Personal Website Marktime Media To stay connected with the Matt Report, head on over to the mattreport.com/subscribe. If you like the show, please leave a 5 Star review over on the Matt Report on iTunes. Be sure to check out Matt's new offering at UserFeedbackVideos.com. It is like having a co-founder for $59.00.   ★ Support this podcast ★

Show Summary: I'm sticking with the website and technology theme for today's show. It's about what website platform or technology should I use for my site? More specifically, I'll discuss the process by which I assess and I hope you will asses and figure out which platforms are right for you. Assuming you have a service-based business and an existing website, the first thing as you go through this is to ask yourself this very first question: Where are you at with your website now? Specifically, here are the questions you need to answer: Where does your brand sit? What is the functionality of your site? Does it talk to your customer? How does that compare to your competition? How much traffic are you getting? Where is that traffic coming from? You need to be acutely aware of what's happening on your website and what your customers see your website as relative to your competition. What's the reason for your change? If you have a website already, is it not serving a purpose? Is it old technology that you can't update? Is it brand new? Do you want a new design? Are you looking to track a new audience? Maybe it's isn't even one that you're aware of and this is pretty common. What are the specific goals of your website? I can't express to you how important this is. You'd be shocked to understand or see the people who just want something because they want something and there needs to be a very specific goal to it. And the reason is that goal dictates and drives the decisions downstream. What do you want people to do on your website? How do you want to serve them? Do you just want to give them information? Functionality or only content in certain types of forums? Does your value proposition get reflected in your website? Do they see the value of your company? Do they see the value of the services you provide to them? From your goals, identify the core functionality of your site. What pieces in how you want your customers to interact with you will affect what type of website platform you use? Two main routes you can take: Existing CMS or Content Management System - ex. WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, SharePoint Custom Application - custom-written How do I decide if I want to use an existing platform versus custom? Let's use WordPress as an example here. Using an existing modular plug-in Do you need something so custom that there already is an existing modular plug-in that you can use and modify to meet your business? A modular plug-in is a piece of code applied to a WordPress site that serves a very specific function (ex. eCommerce, membership, contact us form page, chat) Is there not already something out there that you can use and leverage that meets your needs? Customizing off-the-shelf products Take a modular plug-in and then customize it to fit your need. But this can be risky when they update the core plug-in and it can affect the functionality of what you have. Develop everything custom Start from scratch and go create and write your own. In my opinion, you only go custom if you can afford these things such as the development staff forever. It sounds scary but that's how it is. If you have custom core components of your website, you will need someone to take care of that for you forever. It means you have to have resources available to you that can handle it. You have to make sure you can afford staff forever. Will the functionality of your site give you a defined competitive advantage? This is the linchpin of whether you do something custom whether it's the entire website or a custom module inside of a WordPress site. Figure out if this is something that's really custom for you that you would get immense value out of. Understand that doing custom takes longer time to develop. Basically, there may be issues that could come along such as staff, support, bugs, expertise, training, administration, and other stuff that need to be accounted for. Hence, you need to have people to support it forever. You have to understand this is a commitment. Using WordPress WordPress is a really powerful tool. A significant number of websites in the world are run on WordPress. The advantages of using WordPress: It's user-friendly and has a massive following. Resources are fairly easy to come by. There's lots of pre-made modules and plug-ins. They're always improving from the standpoints of security posture, functionality, and usability. Things to be careful with on WordPress: Security You can easily get out of control with the functionality which could make you slow down, makes it harder to manage, and be more vulnerable to security risks. Note: Always remember to backup your website. Back up everything. Things to consider when deciding what plug-ins to use: Security Backup Spam prevention Core functionality Page designer *Remember you really have to go back to assessing your goals and needs for functionality. Is what you need so critical and important or is there a plugin that can already handle it? If there is not, then you may have to use a custom modular plug-in. Again, I caution customizing things because they will break once they're updated. Key Takeaways: All this said, my core belief is that unless there's something very core to your business that distinguishes you over your competition significantly or is actually part of your service, use pre-made modules and execute on them. This may require small process changes in your organization but they're much less expensive than the cost of customizing code and managing it. Make sure what you put in is absolutely needed. You have to make sure it fits your need and your business and you're willing to accept the risk of doing so. A WordPress framework with a number of modules can accomplish basically anything. Customizing 10% of your website is way better than customizing the entire thing or building it from scratch. Make sure you follow some form of process to really assess what you need. Define your goal. Define what the functionality needs to be and that will help you decide all of these other decisions beneath and make sure they're in alignment with your overall goal.   Books, People, & Resources: WordPress Joomla Drupal SharePoint F53-010: Dominating The Market - Growing a Global Golf Company – GolfTEC - Joe Assell Eye9design.com - A boutique web design and WordPress agency that just celebrated 10 years in business (an eternity in the web design space). They built hundreds of websites for businesses of all sizes. Finding a web design company is hard. There are lots of options, lots of good ones but lots of bad ones. Let the team at eye9design take care of you. 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