Comments for Perri Collins | Web & graphic design, social media, branding & consulting http://perricollins.com Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:52:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2-alpha Comment on Response to WordPress bashing by Roger Williams http://perricollins.com/2011/11/response-to-wordpress-bashing/#comment-19 Roger Williams Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:52:28 +0000 http://perricollins.com/?p=459#comment-19 Nice article Perri! This is totally selling via fear which is unfortunately how most companies think it needs to be done, usually because they are selling inferior products and services. Nice article Perri! This is totally selling via fear which is unfortunately how most companies think it needs to be done, usually because they are selling inferior products and services.

]]> Comment on Response to WordPress bashing by Jonathan Roberts http://perricollins.com/2011/11/response-to-wordpress-bashing/#comment-18 Jonathan Roberts Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:03:40 +0000 http://perricollins.com/?p=459#comment-18 I've been designing and programming small websites for just over 10 years. I started with FrontPage (yikes!) and have used everything from simple html to flash. 2 years ago I jumped on the CMS bandwagon to start my own business website (ILoveToSing.com). I spent several months researching and experimenting with Joomla, Drupal and Wordpress. Wordpress definitely fit my needs the best (although Joomla was a very close second). The themes available were very easily customizable and support was easy to find in the Wordpress.org forums and other places on the internet. Wordpress does have its vulnerabilities such as this year's problems with the timthumb file... but we were all given fair warning and urged to upgrade or eliminate the use of timthumb. There definitely are many plug-ins that seem sketchy but the Wordpress community is set on keeping those ones at bay. And the best, most trusted plug-ins rise to the top. I agree: use only a couple. If you need a lot more functions, find a better theme or hire someone to integrate the functions you need into your theme. It will keep your site optimized and fast for a better user experience. I’ve been designing and programming small websites for just over 10 years. I started with FrontPage (yikes!) and have used everything from simple html to flash. 2 years ago I jumped on the CMS bandwagon to start my own business website (ILoveToSing.com). I spent several months researching and experimenting with Joomla, Drupal and WordPress. WordPress definitely fit my needs the best (although Joomla was a very close second). The themes available were very easily customizable and support was easy to find in the WordPress.org forums and other places on the internet. WordPress does have its vulnerabilities such as this year’s problems with the timthumb file… but we were all given fair warning and urged to upgrade or eliminate the use of timthumb.

There definitely are many plug-ins that seem sketchy but the WordPress community is set on keeping those ones at bay. And the best, most trusted plug-ins rise to the top. I agree: use only a couple. If you need a lot more functions, find a better theme or hire someone to integrate the functions you need into your theme. It will keep your site optimized and fast for a better user experience.

]]> Comment on I should take my own advice by Diane Brennan http://perricollins.com/2011/06/i-should-take-my-own-advice/#comment-3 Diane Brennan Wed, 29 Jun 2011 18:22:54 +0000 http://perricollins.com/?p=368#comment-3 Love the look of the website. Especially love your logo!! Love the look of the website. Especially love your logo!!

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