Cornelia Luethi's marketing blog

I'm about to set up my very first Wordpress website.

Follow my trials and errors, as I'll be posting useful links and resources on the way!

Why use WordPress?

I love how it's a future-proof and very flexible website infrastructure. There are lots of "plug-ins" that give these websites a wide range of functions. And it's inexpensive to do so.

WordPress started out as a blogging platform, but these days it's a perfectly respectable way to build an entire website. Have a look at the Showcase page on the WordPress website to see what I mean.

What is a WordPress theme?

WordPress websites need a "theme". There are free ones available, but I've heard that many of these are badly coded (i.e. will cause you issues), and some even have malware coded into them (i.e. virusy-things that will give you BIG headaches).

So along the way I'll be choosing a theme and blogging about that aspect too.

Why should you read this blog?

There are dozens, if not hundreds on blogs about WordPress. Most of them seem to be written by techie types who are into programming and other geeky stuff. I'm not. While I'm web-savvy, I haven't the fogiest about programming.

So I'll be trawling through all those other blogs, and either linking to useful stuff, or writing my own posts here - in plain English!

Who should attempt setting up this kind of website themselves?

You don't need to be a programmer to do this.

But you need to be confident with computers and technology - and willing to learn. At the very least, know how to upload files by FTP.

Be prepared to ask your web host questions, and to research stuff on the internet.

If you're not keen or willing to do that, but would still like a WordPress website, I'd suggest that you find a good website designer that'll do that for you. NB: this is NOT a service I offer, I'm just writing this blog to help people who are looking for non-techy instructions :)