Is WordPress The Solution To Your Website Woes?

It is MyFitGeek – Tim Goodwin here. Have you been literally tearing you hair out over your bootcamp or personal training website? If you have seen a picture of me lately you’ll have seen I have none left on my head ) squeak!

This morning I was going out of my mind with the 12 days of fitness website, that I am helping Dax Moy with this year…

Something wasn’t right, it displayed fine on FireFox browser but it was all over the place in Internet Explorer…

Anyway, it made think about one of the questions I got last week about WordPress and using it as the basis for a website. I have had in the past wordpress site for an information product I had.

Whilst the site looked good and and maintained a common look throughout, I did get frustrated by the lack of control I had with it. Despite being a geek, I don’t care to understand EVERY coding language out there and PHP (which WordPress is based on) is particularly geekie and ugly.

Anyway, before I get off topic, I believe WordPress to be one of the most accessible ways for fitness professionals to create and maintain control over their sites, although it does have its limitations…

To get it set up you DO need a geek to install and set up a few “plugins” to make it work most effectively for you. For example you’ll need a plugin to improve your control over the Search Engine optimisation stuff I talked about in a previous BLOG post

http://myfitgeek.com/blog/33/are-you-focussing-on-the-wrong-search-terms/

You’ll need to have a theme designed and coded by a competent designer/developer, as the themes you get for nothing are in general quite poor.

Saying all that, once it is set up, editing and adding pages as well as maintaining a BLOG is really very simple. Editing pages is just like using a WYSIWYG editor, and now WordPress can add in things like videos, audio and other media with relative ease.

This BLOG is based on WordPress… and I am in the process of finding the right developer to design and code the full MyFitGeek website based on WordPress, hopefully it will look way cooler than this shabby template.

It is not the ultimate solution, but it may be the right solution if you want more control, without the need to get heavy in to the techie coding stuff. Sounds like the ideal solution for many fitness professionals??

Do you have a WordPress web site now, how do you find using it? Is this something you would like to have for your website solution? Leave me a comment below…