One of the struggles I have had recently is determining the best way to allow my clients to update the content on their websites. Although there are a myriad of content managment systems to choose from, in my experience most of them are too complicated for the needs of the clients I normally work with.
I have personally become a convert to using WordPress as the backend for most sites that I design. By doing so, I can update most client sites from anywhere in the world through the WordPress web based interface. This is a great advantage as I am no longer tied to the various desktop software applications in my office in order to accomplish most updates.
As you may have noticed, I have implemented a “Featured Post&” module on the top of my main blog page. This module displays information about a particular post that I want to display more prominently.
I have been considering adding a feature like this for some time, but until I received some inspiration from from Philip Moore over at Big Square Blog I really had no direction on how to begin.
Is it just me?
It seems that there is no middle ground. Either I have several projects under development at one time, or I have nothing to do. There never seems to be a middle ground. Busy, busy, busy. Or slow, slow slow.
When it rains, it pours. But in between, it gets awfully dry around here. How is it with your web design business?
Some months I get contacted several times a week about new projects, and convert about one third of those contacts into signed proposals and money in the bank. But some months go by without any inquiry whatsoever. I am in the middle of one of those droughts at the moment. Tick tock, tick tock.
