Site's Up!

So Wordpress wasn't as easily as I had initially anticipated, but now I feel like I've learned a ton. There's nothing like getting your hands dirty and just getting into a project to figure it out, and in this case I definitely feel like I've gone through it.

Developing a wordpress site does require a bit of technical knowledge. There are cases when I had to FTP pages, edit HTML, and dig throughout the web to figure out how to manage different pieces. What it does provide is a great interface to manage the site and quickly put up pages and make changes. Now that I understand the site I can tweak it in no time, and manage it from anywhere.

My original purpose of switching from google sites was to allow for conversion tracking. Although Google Sites allows for easy implementation of site tracking (I use Google Analytics on the Google Site and also on my wordpress site www.K2RGoldParties.com) conversion tracking is actually a huge pain on Wordpress sites as well! The problem is that you can't edit HTML on an individual page, you can only edit at a site level. Therefore, I had to find a work-around, which was to create an additional template and plug the conversion code into that template. Much more difficult than I had anticipated, but once you figure it out its not too bad.

Wordpress is also great as there are tons and tons of plugins that you can get running up on the site in no time. If you look at www.k2rgoldparties.com some of the plugins I'm using include the sharing elements on the lower right in addition to a ton of back-end stuff.

All in all, although setting up a Wordpress site is templatized, it does still require technical knowledge to tweak and get it just right. I feel like this was a great learning experience for me. Check it out at www.k2rgoldparties.com and if you really like it book a gold party!

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