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    Why We Use WordPress

    Why We Use WordPress?

     

    Many online business owners have heard of WordPress and have been using this CMS platform over the years. If this is your first time coming across this software, you might be wondering why you should use it. Or perhaps if you already have a website, you might be thinking that your old site isn’t good enough and pondering if you should make the switch to WordPress.

    For starters, it’s not uncommon to know that many people tend to classify WordPress as a mere blogging platform. In the past, yes but the software has evolved over the years and become a versatile CMS (content management system). From just using WordPress to create simple blogs, you can now create fully functional websites and even mobile applications.

    Haven’t got a grasp of WordPress’s presence on the market? Today, it powers more than 22% of all websites on the internet, and many top brands including The New York Times, LinkedIn, Facebook, Google and CNN use it to power their websites. Let’s take a look at why you should use WordPress.

    WordPress Can be Used in Many Different Ways

    Whether you need a business resource website or a full-fledged online portfolio, WordPress is open to possibilities. Below are some ways you can use WordPress (other than CMS):

    • Membership Sign-Up Website
    • Video Collection Website
    • Online Store
    • Ratings Website
    • Portfolio
    • Gallery
    • Blog
    • Arcade
    • … and more!

    Above are just a few examples of how you can use WordPress. You can consider checking out the WordPress Showcase for more inspiration.

    WordPress is Easy to Learn, Use and Manage

    There are great reasons why millions of people use WordPress and many new members join the WordPress community (by creating a WordPress powered website) on a daily basis. WordPress is fairly easy to use so you will be able to quickly adapt to it. Still not convinced? See this “how to install WordPress” guide and you will understand what we are talking about. What’s more, there is a plentiful source of WordPress tutorials at your disposal.

    WordPress is also easy to manage because it comes with a built-in updater that allows you to update your themes and plugins from within your admin dashboard. You will also receive notifications if there is a new version of WordPress is available. You can perform the update simply by clicking a button. If you feel that it’s safer to engage someone experienced in WordPress development to set up and manage your site, it’s definitely a good start too!

    WordPress is Developed with Security in Mind

    Yes, WordPress comes with the latest security features to make it safe enough to run any website. However, you should note that the internet can be an uncertain place and that’s why you should stay vigilant to monitor security threats and prevent potential intruders from getting their hands on your site.

    WordPress is Well Loved by Popular Search Engines

    One of the greatest benefits of WordPress is that it’s attractive to search engines; Google, Yahoo, etc. It has the ability to produce semantic mark up and is written using high quality code that is compliant to modern standards. While the default design of WordPress is super SEO friendly, you can definitely enhance its SEO friendliness by utilizing WordPress SEO plugins.

    WordPress Can Read and Display Different Media Types

    By now, you already know that you’re not just limited to writing text when you use WordPress for CMS. Its built-in support features make handling a wide variety of video content, audio content and images possible. Because of WordPress’s versatility, you can facilitate collaborative editing in WordPress. Your team will be able to work on documents at the same time; handling file hosting, workflow, file management and more. Moving on, you will also be glad to know that WordPress supports websites that are oEmbed enabled too. You can embed Soundcloud audio content, Tweets, Instagram photos and YouTube videos by just pasting the URL in your posts.

    Use WordPress for CMS Today!

    With so many benefits to enjoy, it’s no wonder that we at Bonet Enterprises LLC have chosen WordPress as our CMS platform of choice when we develop websites for our clients.

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  • Top 8 Reasons Why Bonet Enterprises NEVER Uses Nor Recommends Using Wix

    Being in the industry of website building, the choice of what software or CMS to use is the very first thing we need to decide on. If you read our previous blog we posted, WordPress captured our heart for website development. However, some might also ask “Why not use Wix?” since their ads have been everywhere and looks so easy to use.

    So here are some reasons why we turn our back to use Wix:

    1. You will not own your website

    Even Weebly and Squarespace, you are just actually ‘renting’ your website. Frankly speaking, your store, blog or business will never own a website made in Wix. This is because they were being proprietary website builders or paid platform. Your website will only stay alive as long as you remain active with Wix.

    2. Flash technology

    Flash is undeniably beautiful but one disadvantage of it is that many phones and tablets don’t even display flash. Just so you know, a recent survey showed are a greater number of smart phone users than computer or laptop users on these days.  That being said, your chances of viewers and traffic are lower specially when you’re doing Ads and you’re possibly invisible to the large number of phone and tablet users.

    3. You cant move your website

    If you build your website with Wix, you are trapped using their web hosting service. Having control over your web hosting platform is critical as your web hosting platform is how the viewers can access your website. That being said, you have zero control over your web hosting platform.

    Disadvantages are: 1) If anything ever goes wrong there will be nothing you can do about it 2) you are restricted with web hosting options 3) you have zero control over your web hosting platform

    Unlike WordPress where there’s a whole bunch of hosting companies wanting your dollar to host your website.

    4. Google does NOT like Wix

    Nobody wants to be hated by world’s no.1 search engine. One major reason was mentioned in #2, Flash is something that Google is not a fan of. Because of that, it will be harder to rank your Wix website which will affect your traffic because your site will not be search engine optimized. If you’re doing business or selling some products or services, this will be your nightmare and very last thing you want to happen! it was sure a nightmare for our web developer.

    5. Not fully customizable

    Our primary goal with website creation is to build amazingly stunning, fully responsive and optimized websites for our clients and not being able to add features or functions will be a nightmare.

    Using Wix traps its users in using the tools provided by them. Again, it is always important to use a tool that makes us limitless with the ability to expand and work beyond the usual.

    6. Loads slow

    Every client doesn’t deserve a slow-loading website. Wix websites load slower than those built on HTML and the chances of losing viewers are higher. Because having to wait 10 seconds to see a website is something that users hate. Slow sites will turn the visitors off since a first impression on web indeed lasts.

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    7. It doesn’t look as good

    Most Wix website doesn’t look highly professional. Like we’ve mentioned, first impression lasts when it comes to web pages. A unfriendly and not so good looking website speaks a lot about its owner, business or company.

     

    8. It’s expensive

    Although you can build Wix website without paying anything, the largest cost of using Wix is a hidden one. It’s the cost of websites built by users who may not know what makes a website really work, therefore it doesn’t get found, or it doesn’t function well. That lack of functionality is probably costing you business. And not to mention, you also get a headache using Wix!

    Since using Wix made the owners limited, you will be attracted to go to their ‘app store’ where you can choose which apps to use. Of course you would want to have the best feature of the app you’re going to buy, for example the $10 premium functionality of the app. That’s the time you’ll know that Wix is expensive thinking that you can have the same feature with the same ‘premium functionality’ you bought to other website platform like WordPress for FREE!

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    In Closing

    In our experience, people who use Wix simply skimp on paying a web developer in the beginning but end up paying the web developer ANYWAY in the long run!

     

    Coming up to the decision really needs further study and comparison. It is possible to build a very functional, limitless and FREE website to other platform like WordPress so why settle for something that you don’t really deserve.

  • Why WordPress?

    Why WordPress?

     

    This is a commonly asked question that many of our clients ask us, so we hope we answer it clearly here. We personally love WordPress and will forever be a loyal WordPress fan/user.

    And indeed, we never regretted choosing WordPress as our CMS. Here’s a quick 11 short list of reasons why WordPress didn’t fail to impress us.

    1. Easy To Use and Learn.

    Way back then, creating websites was for experienced programming pros alone. It needs a deep knowledge and profound understanding of programming languages to build a single website – but depends on the client’s specific requirements they’re looking for in a website. Thanks to WordPress, anyone isn’t required to be graduate of computer science because it is easy to learn. We mean, VERY EASY to learn. So easy to use – young children can understand to use it! Publish posts in a breeze and we’re not kidding about this. 

    1. No Coding Expertise Required

    Knowledge with HTML, CSS, MySQL or PHP isn’t needed! You don’t have to be an expert of those languages to use WordPress. It has a very friendly interface that whatever feature you think of, can be done with few clicks and keyboard press! 

    1. An Array of Useful Tools, Plugins and Theme Concepts

    WordPress is customizable and has a lot to offer. WordPress offers a lot of helpful tools for whatever website requirement you need under the sun. Any out of this world tool or plugin are very easy to find and can be installed in a minute or two. No matter what you’re using WordPress for, plugins that are compatible with your version of WordPress can work magic on your site’s functionality! 

    1. Search Engine Optimized

    WordPress was made through a standard compliance high quality code and its framework is easy to crawl. That’s why any powered by WordPress website is very attractive to popular search engines such as Google. Sites that were built on WordPress are at a higher chance of getting ranking on top of the search engines compared to sites that were built on free and cheap platforms like Wix, Weebly or Squarespace.

    1. Easy To Manage and Update

    Given that WordPress is easy to use, managing and updating it is also trouble-free. WordPress actually notifies the admin whenever there are updates to any of your plugins or theme, so you’ll be sure to stay up to date with the latest and greatest that WordPress has to offer! We make sure all of our client’s sites are up to date, so you never have to worry about that with our services! 

    1. Safe and Secure

    WordPress makes sure that your site is always safe and secure, which is another reason why they inform the admin whenever there’s an update. Of course, WordPress users still have to take the necessary steps to ensure the security and protection of their site to make sure it’s safe and keeps hackers away. 

    Here at Bonet Enterprises, we take security very seriously. We ensure that all of our client’s sites are malware protected and hacker-free. 

    1. Capable of Handling Many Different Media Types

    We all know that media is ‘today’, plain and static texts are dead, and media is everything. WordPress manage to make is easier for users to place any form of media – flash, video, photos or audios to your pages that are customizable and limitless on how you can present it.

    1. E-Commerce Support

    WordPress is more than just a blog or website page. It is also capable of handling e-commerce stores. Your business has also a number of ecommerce solutions that will convert your site into an all-out digital store. It has thousands of free template concepts to give your business any look you want. We tell our clients all the time: “if you can dream it, we can create it.”

    1. Capable of multi-users

    WordPress is allows the admin of the site to add multiple users to the your site. You can assign roles to different users and give the right position and access to respective people such as Admin, Editor, Contributor, Author, and even Subscriber.

    1. Mobile friendly

    According to a research from comScore.com, desktop (includes laptop and computer) users are dropping off quickly as mobile devices encourage new types of interaction. In fact, many younger people don’t use computers at all, instead relying entirely upon their smartphones. That being said, your website should be good looking, user friendly and responsive not just on desktop, but most especially to smart phones and tablets. And the great news is, WordPress already did the job for you.

    1. WordPress continuously improves 

    Let’s face it, WordPress is getting better every day. You can be positive that WordPress is only going to advance as time goes on, so that’s pretty exciting!

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    With the help of this powerful tool, offers to build amazingly stunning, fully responsive, optimized websites that convert best. Check here for more details!

    WordPress can simply be described as ‘powerful’. Those are just 11 from the hundreds of reasons why WordPress captured our hearts.

  • Branding & Strategy

    Branding & Strategy

    We provide new and existing businesses with refreshed, custom strategies for telling their own unique brand stories. Building a good brand strategy is key to being noticed and appearing to your customers. With good planning and a team of experts, we can create a strategic brand plan to build your presence that’ll bring you more customers!