DIY Websites – The Pros Over Pro Builds

Over the past couple of years, the DIY website design revolution has been accelerating like few could have imagined. Admittedly, there are still limits to what can be accomplished by amateurs and this will always be the case, but thanks largely to the advances of content management systems like WordPress, it’s never been easier or quicker for anyone with zero experience to build a beautiful website for business purposes.Now, there is of course a lot to be said for the pro approach – it’s not as if those trying out WordPress for the first time going to have the skills, knowledge or resources to develop a work of art. However, when you take away simple aesthetic benefits and the rather elaborate features that aren’t necessarily essential, you find yourself looking at a situation wherein the DIY build option actually has a fair few benefits above and beyond pro website builds.      CostsFor example, the immediate and most obvious benefit of all is that of costs…or lack thereof. The reason being that WordPress is free to download and free to use by anyone – there are no strings attached and an array of rich features are there for the taking. It’s a fully open source CMS so it’s permanently being refined and bettered, so it’s the perfect tool to get started with. As such, with the low-priced hosting deals on the market right now and professional domain names going for next to nothing, setting up a small business website the DIY way can be quite extraordinarily cheap. Not just affordable, but cheap as chips. By contrast, pro sites hardly ever come cheap at all and there may also be on-going costs to factor in.Maintenance The next biggest benefit of all is that of maintenance. It’s inevitable that any given website will require a little TLC from time to time, either when things go wrong or when it’s decided that something just isn’t working as well as it could. When this happens with a pro build, it’s a case of first getting hold of those responsible for the site, logging the complaint/concern and waiting for it to be acted upon. Even if the response is fast and agreeable, you’re still dealing with a middleman and slowing down the process. The alternative is to build the site by hand and take care of all such matters personally. This means a quicker resolution to problems and total control over performance.On-going AlterationsAnd in a similar vein, building a site by hand using a simple CMS means the ability to dip in and out of it whenever you like to experiment with changes. From simple colour scheme changes to full theme changes to the addition of new content and so on and so forth, to use a CMS like WordPress puts you in the driving seat and allows you to make on-going alterations and tweaks at will, again without having to involve a third party.