If you’ve ever explored the possibility of starting your own personal blog, or researched websites, then you’ve probably heard of WordPress. WordPress was one of the pioneers in making it simple for personal bloggers to connect with the public on the internet to share their hopes, dreams, stories, and opinions when blogging became big back in the early 2000’s. Since then, WordPress has stayed true to their roots as a simple, easy-to-use content management system for the amateur blogger, with advanced, intuitive platforms for the professional web designer. So, why would you choose to build your Credit Union’s website with the same company that ol’ Sally down the block uses to sell her homemade jams?
You Can Make it Your Own
WordPress is a fully-customizable platform that can be used to design the website of your dreams. The sites are mobile-responsive across devices, allowing your site be both beautiful and functional on desktop and mobile. A wide variety of plugins allow you to add expand the functionality to your website to optimize SEO, add urgent messages, connect with Google Analytics, create forms, and so much more. Your possibilities are endless! Your website is your biggest branch that gets the most traffic – you want it to be beautiful, functional and most importantly, easy to use for your members!
Hackers, Beware
Since WordPress is the most popular content management system according to Wikipedia, they take security seriously. Of course, no CMS is 100% secure, so in addition to standard security features, PMD takes steps when building your WordPress website to ensure that we are only using the most trusted third-party plugins, and that your data is backed up on a regular basis, if you are hosting with us.
Doesn’t take a Rocket Scientist
The beauty of WordPress is its simplicity. WordPress didn’t gain its popularity with the blogger crowd by being only accessible to those who had a PhD in HTML coding. You can do almost everything you need to do in WordPress without ever knowing a single line of code. When PMD builds your website, we take time before launch to walk you through the backend functionality of your WordPress site, and show you how easy it is to make updates, swap out photos, and even add menu items. Occasionally, like any site, we need to get a developer involved, but the simplicity of this CMS is that so many of the day to day edits can be done by YOU!
If you want to know more about what a WordPress site can do for your Credit Union, contact us today! We’re happy to show you sites like these that have been transformed thanks to WordPress.