Wordpress or HTML

While my current job doesn’t require the knowledge of HTML, it’s certainly helped. I know that part of this comes as part of the territory (virtually any job in the digital sector). Depending on who you ask, creating a website can fall into three categories: You can rely on a paid CMS such as WordPress.com, Squarespace, etc. for an easy experience. which, depending on how much you spend be tailored exactly to your spec. You can rely on a free CMS such as WordPress.org, Drupal, etc. for a limited amount of options. The downside is that and you’ll end up paying for something else instead. You can build it yourself, find the hosting and buy the domain.

Funny story about the taxi website site:

In the end I decided it would be better to build the site from scratch using a framework to help structure the pages.

Originally I hadn’t planned on having a blog at all, removing the need for dynamic content. However it didn’t seem right to look for content jobs, without showing my own writing skills. Likewise it seems like a good way to instill some sort of personal consistency.

I was also tired of having to add my images and then manually tweak each HTML gallery, a downside to working with pure static sites. I have to admit, working dynamically certainly fixes that. (My next post will no doubt be in-depth look at moving to a dynamic system).

Having been a fan of where Material Design was going, I wanted something that looked just as clean and could also work around a specific structure. This is where Materialize CSS came in. I already had a good foundation of Bootstrap, due to work. What was great about Materialize CSS is that it works in a very similar fashion, except with the extra bells and whistles, that Material Design brings to the table.