In the answers of Yes or NO – we are going use a blanket answer of NO HTML knowledge needed for edits to the site when using WordPress vs Must know HTML (requiring a programmer to help) if the client wanted to update the static HTML website. In these questions – it is might be possible to do some of the items requested but would customization that would cause the price to be even more. In most cases – any major updates to the the traditional static HTML website will take a programmer hours to do vs minutes to do within WordPress.
| Do you need to know how to edit HTML to make these updates? |
WordPress
NO knowledge of HTML needed |
Static HTML site
MUST know how to edit HTML code |
| Can a Custom Design be used? | Yes | Yes |
| Are the pages built with HTML and CSS | Yes | Yes |
| Can minor text updates be easily made by the client without knowing any HTML code? | Yes | NO |
| Can a new page be added to the website by the client? | Yes – minutes | NO |
| Can a news item be added at any time by the client? | Yes | NO |
| Can the MetaTags be controlled by the client? | Yes | NO |
| Does the site map automatically “Ping” Google, Yahoo, Bing or AOL when new content is added to the website? | Yes | NO |
| Can the design of the website be updatedeasily reusing the content/database? Please note that all the content (text and photos) in a WordPress website are stored in a database. | Yes A new look could be applied in a matter of 2 -3 days. Reusing the database. 16 – 24 hours? |
NO A new look for the website would take weeks – like starting from scratch. 60 – 80 hours? |
| Can the content of the website be updated with: iPhone, Blackberry or Android? | Yes | NO |
| Can a new page or post be added to the website with: iPhone, Blackberry or Android? | Yes | NO |
| Can a news page deliver content into an HTML newsletter? | Yes | NO |
| Can custom data charts be edited by the client? | Yes | NO |
| Can the client to easily edit a shopping cart within the admin (PayPal or merchant account)? | Yes | NO |
| Can the client add new photos or photo gallery’s to the website? | Yes | NO |
| Can the site automatically syndicate your recent news to popular social networks such as facebook, digg, twitter, etc.? | Yes | NO |
