It seems to be a dream come true for a tech-idiot like me. The man who I spoke with stated he could set me up for about 3K. I would be doing the movement of content, and day to day management.
Your thoughts about this software option would be much appreciated and respected.
Why?
What is your site that it would cost 3k to convert it?
The WordPress framework is free. Why do you want to pay someone $3000 to set you up when you can do it yourself. I am not that impressed by it, myself. Do not care for PHP.
Please tell us something about your website and what it is that you want it to do that it does not do now or what it does now that you do not want it to do.
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I thought Wordpress was just a blogsite. lol
I setup a blog on WordPress for my high school alumni. Easy to use and a number of features but only compliant from folks was they always had to scroll down to the end to see the new posts and there was no easy way to reverse them so the newest were at the top.
I setup a blog on WordPress for my high school alumni. Easy to use and a number of features but only compliant from folks was they always had to scroll down to the end to see the new posts and there was no easy way to reverse them so the newest were at the top.
The paradigm is different - with FP, you maintain your web sources on your PC and "publish" as needed, transferring what you changed to the folders on your ISP. Drupal is very different - you manage everything directly on the web page, using the browser as your interface. It's very user friendly, and you can "distribute" the web page contributors - have your users help you build the site - since you can design your site to allow users to make comments, change pages, create pages (based on the relative privileges you assign those users).
$3000 dollars? You need to talk to someone like me ... 3k sounds a bit much. Of course, that depends on what your site is or does. Look into Joomla or Drupal and see if they could be what you need.
(It's actually spelled with the exclamation point. I'm not THAT excited about it.)
And I wouldn't pay $3K for it. From what I've read, there are plenty of Joomla! developers out there who will work for cheaper than that. (Mind you, that's based on what I've read recently, not actual experience).
Do it.
It works great. There are a bunch of plugins that will eliminate spammers and such.
It’s very easy to use. It’s not worth it to pay $3000 for someone to set it up. You can do it yourself for free. I mean, if you want someone to spend a few hours setting it up, by all means that is probably worth something to you, but adding content is painless.
Of all the content management systems I’ve run or installed over the years, wordpress is easily the easiest to use and configure. I’ve been running my wp site off of my main website for about two years now and have had zero problems with it.
I paid a little money for something called the Weaver theme (you can google it), and found it to be well worth the money. Most of the other paid themes, not so much.
Unless this person is going to be doing a whole lot for you (i.e. unless your site is fairly complicated), 3K is a whole lot of money to make that transition.
Hosting a basic blog at wordpress.com is free, but they will show ads on your site. If you upgrade, you can get your own domain, control your own ads, get more space, etc..
If you have any questions, I'll answer tham (for free). :)
ps: In case people are confused, Wordpress is php blog software that is free an open source. It is available at wordpress.org. The company that manages development runs a commercial venture at wordpress.com, selling hosting services.
I agree with all the above: WP is probably fine for any content you previously presented with FrontPage, try it first at WordPress.com, and PLEASE don’t pay anyone $3k to set it up! It’s a five minute process; half an hour if you’re completely non-technical and it’s your first time.
I have used Front Page for many years. Like you I wanted something which would allow for easier updating.
I switched to drupal 7.
It is open-source, flexible and very easy to update.
WP shouldn’t cost you 3k to set-up.
I had three sites that I created with Frontpage that were hosted by AT&T. When AT&T got out of the hosting biz, and MS pulled the plug on FP, I started over with WP hosted by Hostgator. I have since added a 4th site. My sites are informational, personal blog, and a place to publish my Christian writing. I find WP very easy and very flexible - which is exactly what I wanted since I wanted to spend more time creating and less time “building”.
As others have suggested, if you built your pages with Frontpage, you should be able to handle WP easily. You will probably kick yourself for not changing sooner like I did.
Nothing wrong with WP. Also nothing wrong with paying for the migration if you’re not interested in learning to do it yourself.
The folks here telling you to do it yourself are either professionals, or are satisfied with very simple layouts and functionality.
Drupal is a good alternative. Just get a couple of bids at least, from people who can port to multiple platforms - WP, Drupal, or Joomla.
There are awesome themes available for each. Staying up to date is also a concern, so the person who recommended having it hosted at WP is giving good advice.
I would not listen to anyone who tells you that “x” is the BEST way.
Stay agnostic in your search for a good home for your site.
I’m a professional web designer and agree with the others. $3K for a set up that you’d have to import the content is a complete rip off. That figure is only reasonable if they are transferring all your content into a custom theme they’ve designed specifically for you.
Wordpress comes free with most hosting accounts. It is easy to install (5 minutes) and professionally designed themes are readily available for about $50 or less.
I’d recommend that you try it out yourself. Your current hosting provider may offer it, and if so, install it in a test directory and see what you think of it. You can work on it in this preview area without worrying about the public seeing it.
If you do need help with the set up, you should be able to bring someone in for a couple hours of training/set-up help. That shouldn’t cost more than a couple hundred dollars.
Hope this helps.
It depends what is being done for the $3k. A lot of people on here say that the software is free, so you shouldn’t have to pay anything to have it set up. They are not correct. I can almost guarantee you that none of them have their sites setup correctly (or get any meaningful traffic).
Also, you need to think what your goals are. What does your website do? Are you ranked anywhere for keywords that you want to preserve? Will you be preserving the link structure, or at least redirecting to the new content pages so that you don’t take a dive in the rankings when you switch?
The point is, yes you can probably get wordpress setup yourself in about 30 minutes or so, but you will not probably pick out the best combination of plugins to use with the site for your application ... (there are over 100,000 plugins)
Pick the correct link structure for your posts and pages.
Adequately secure the site from sql injection attacks, insecure plugins, form spam etc
Make the correct changes to the Wordpress code to make it SEO friendly.
Correctly implement your analytics and tracking code.
Automate your internal linking structure.
Automate and secure your RSS feeds.
Correctly limit the ip ranges that can access your site.
Correctly rewrite your robots.txt
Correctly reprogram the rel links in Wordpress to be more Google friendly. (HINT: out of the box, Wordpress can hurt your ranking because of recent changes to the way Google uses rel=next and rel=prev tags which are coded throughout wordpress.)
In short, you get what you pay for, just ask them to outline exactly what you are paying for bring it back here for a look.