The Benefits of WordPress Web Design and Magento Web Design

17 Apr The Benefits of WordPress Web Design and Magento Web Design

WordPress is a blogging platform that is today used as a CMS system with incredible abilities and scalability, offering benefits to both web developers and end users. WordPress websites today include blog websites, informational websites, eCommerce websites and more. Magento on the other hand is used mainly for eCommerce websites especially those of a larger scale.

Nowadays the increasing trend of WordPress and Magento being utilized in web design and development projects indicates their significance. The reason a majority of users have gravitated towards these platforms is because of their intuitive interfaces. Adding a blog posts, new pages, text, images and conducting other regular tasks can be performed in a very short span of time by the average user. With such intuitive and user-friendly interfaces, performing essential tasks is simple and the time required for making modifications has been enormously reduced. These web design platforms also provide an added benefit to both developers and end-users, as websites built on these platforms can be accessed from anywhere and any place that has internet access. You can be visiting a foreign country and still be able to update and manage your blog or online store. WordPress and Magento are considered to be self-sufficient platforms and they do not require HTML or advance coding knowledge to making updates, additions or modifications to your website’s content.

Another benefit of using each of these platforms is the SEO advantage that they provide. Both WordPress and Magento are search engine friendly, making it considerably easy for search engines to read and index your website and its content. Each post, page, image, or product can all be individually optimized for specific keywords to help draw more visitors and increase traffic to your website. Of course with the right keywords and SEO strategy, you can turn your website visits into actual conversions.

The extensive number of plugins, modules, and extensions that are available for both WordPress and Magento create endless possibilities in regards to functionality and customization. Implement your social media feeds or create an interactive animation, or even easily connect your WordPress website with your Magento website – the scalability and modular nature of both of these platforms makes it all possible. From my experience, WordPress plugins are generally affordable if not free, and configuration is usually pretty simple. Magento extensions however are typically much pricier and implementation would require a professional or someone with experience.

While WordPress and Magento offer the ability of having an indefinite number of pages, blog posts, and products on your website, you should keep in mind that at some point your website’s performance will be affected. The larger your website and its files, the longer it takes to load. Your conversion will decrease as the average user allows a website up to 3-5 seconds to load before switching to an alternative. Search engines also factor in website speed when evaluating and ranking websites and so site speed and its overall performance is important. If you do anticipate high traffic volume and lots of content and files, we recommend you consult with your web developer or administrator about getting the proper hosting for your website. Having a dedicated or VPS server to host your website may be suggested but your final choice would of course be based on your website’s unique requirements.

Although the intuitive designs of both WordPress and Magento are attractive, full customization would require a professional WordPress developer or Magento developer to fulfill your requirements and envisaged goal for your website. Implementation of certain extensions and plugins, advance modification, and application of extended functionality would require experience, and technical acumen. Feel free to contact us at Envisage Design Services as we are experienced WordPress developers and professional Magento developers with the ability to develop your website according to your requirements and design specifications.