Do You Need a Webmaster for Your Business?

There’s no doubt – you need someone you can call on for emergencies and to handle certain aspects of technology that are better left to professionals. A virus that destroyed part of your website, a crash you can’t recover from, etc. These are things you need a webmaster or some other technical professional for.

Do you need a webmaster on staff for you or can you or someone in your business learn as much as you need to know and only outsource the tough stuff?

With the advent of blogging technologies many companies are turning to blogs as the solution for their business website. Blogs are quick to get up and running, well put together in the case of WordPress, and quite a bit easier than a traditonal website to handle on your own.

Over the past 3 years we’ve developed a few dozen websites based on the WordPress system (wordpress.org) and have found it an amazing platform to work from. Picture having a website up and running in a day, complete with design, SEO, and multimedia capabilities. WordPress makes it not only possible – but possible for many levels of people. The instructions at the main site are easy enough that most technical professionals or those that like to tinker can probably hash it out and do everything themselves.

Learning the interface (dashboard) is not that difficult either, and like anything requires some trial and error to become expert with all the little tweaks and functionality bits. WordPress is powerful – and, the reason it’s really powerful is because it gives you the tools to modify, create, and delete content you have on your site as a user – not a webmaster or tech professional. You need not know how to code HTML to manage a WP site. There are a few themes now that are coming out with many easily tweakable functions to make WP super easy.

The “THESIS” theme is one such WP theme that gives the user many options to choose from so he/she need not go into the code to change things like font colors & size or other formatting attributes. Thesis is used by professionals and total amateurs alike. Look at Copyblogger.com – he uses it – and he’s at the top of the game. I also just set up a guy teaching English in China on the Thesis theme and he was up and running in two days of playing with it – he had no prior experience with blogging or creating websites at all!

So, with WordPress you no longer need to take a year to develop your site from scratch. Not even a month or a week. If you ever DO want to tweak the design the changes can be made much more quickly to all the pages because they’re all based on templates – one change affects all pages of the same type. Paying someone to fix your site the way you want it is also MUCH cheaper than it used to be. What used to take 100 hours, today might take 2 days of work. Seriously.

What you might have paid for in the past – today you can try yourself.

Times have REALLY CHANGED. You might not even need a webmaster on staff anymore. How’s that for saving $50,000 per year in expenses? Outsource what you need to and save a bundle.If you wanted to learn how to maintain your site built on the WordPress platform it would take about 30 hours of time to really get into it and figure it all out. We offer a WordPress elearning course here on site for those of you that want to learn all  you can about it -and never need a webmaster again.

If you learn the WordPress platform – and then learn a little bit about tweaking CSS and PHP – the code behind the websites you’ll be much farther down the path of self-sufficiency and it will be a huge cost you no longer need to outsource.

We’ll have some easy to use ebusiness training here to help you learn WordPress, FTP, Graphics Editing, and video production for websites. Join our email newsletter to be alerted to training courses as they are released. Subscribers to our emails will receive offers for free training and deeply discounted training too.

Seriously consider using WordPress for your business website. It makes a lot of sense.