WordPress has lost the trust of Website Designers

There are designers who literally hate WordPress.

For them, WordPress isn’t creative enough to cater their ideas and imaginations

They also feel, using WordPress isn’t as easy as some of the other platforms, especially when clients aren’t well-versed with the platform.

For them, converting a contemporary design into a viable theme isn’t an easy task with WordPress.

The Kicker?

They are right, well at least partially.

Ask any WordPress Development Company and they will inform you that WordPress isn’t the easiest of platforms to use, especially with a client. This is why most of the WordPress website design Houston companies has to adapt custom approached to keep the client happy.

Fortunately, there are numerous tools and elements which can help WordPress Development Company or WordPress Developers Freelancecome up with better, nicer, and more effective designs.

Actually with the right knowledge and tools, building an exquisite WordPress site isn’t much difficult task; it just depends on your own knowledge, and grip on utilizing various available tools.

Here we will be showcasing one simple step-wise approach, adopted by various successful WordPress website design Houston companies. This will surely help you understand the process better, and come up with more aesthetically pleasing, and functional WordPress Website designs.

1. Steal

Ok, yes we literally mean to steal.

What do you need to steal?

Well for the starter, you need to steal ideas! (Note: Don’t ever try to steal someone finished product, code, design, graphics, business identity, names, or stuff like that, it is simply incorrect morally, besides being a crime as well).

So, where were we?

Yes as I was saying, steal ideas. In fact, stealing off ideas is a common practice in website designing industry, everyone do it lad – Don’t feel disgusted!

To put it more morally, an idea in itself doesn’t come with any intrinsic value. Rather, it is the execution and implementation of the idea that gives it any value.

So, to start-off try looking for ideas; there are plenty floating ideas everywhere. Try stealing any of them which you like!

1. Prepare the Ground

Before even starting, you should know the precise requirement of the project. This is one simple rule that is followed by any successful WordPress Development Company or Freelance Developers Houston.

As a matter of fact, clients aren’t much bothered about the aesthetics of the site. Rather they are more interested in the results it would bring to them.

So, once you have the idea, you need to realize what the client or you (in case you are designing it for yourself) want to achieve with the site. Only when you are pretty damn sure about your requirements, then you can actually build/designs the entire website around that point.

1. Have your gearbox ready

Ok, since you are already here, I assume you aren’t interested in discussing the main/core tools like Dropbox, Photoshop, etc.

So, leaving all the basics, let’s just jump over to some incredibly useful, but lesser known tools, which can deliver the punch for all WordPress Website designs:

Here’re three high utility tools you need to get familiarize with:

Unsplash: Admit it, accessing high-quality photos without copyright protection is the biggest headache for all website designers. Well, here’s one source, which literally gives you limitless access to high-quality photos; the best thing, you don’t need to worry about copyright concerns ever again.

PixelDropr: An easy, and effective free tool to create your very own, and customized pixels (buttons, UI, icons, etc.). These customized pixels can then, easily be drag and drop in most designing software like Photoshop.

IcoMoon: Looking for some custom icon fonts? This is certainly one of the best tools to access unlimited icon fonts; you can even create your own custom fonts.

Is this it?

Well, honestly speaking there are various other tools, each with its own unique utility. After some browsing and researching, I have been able to gather a big list of such utility tools. I am sure you too can easily find many of such utility tools with little research, and efforts.

1. Design Vs Modify

Let’s face the reality, most of the times WordPress designs are just the modification of existing templates, which can be easily accessed. You can easily download a well-designed WordPress theme templated with its PSD file, and simply add some tweaks to make it your own.

The second approach is the indigenous effort, where you start from the scratch up and come up with a unique, discreet design of your own. Obviously, there are a lot more efforts in here.

Personally, I think the former approach is better for the most part. Though designed from the scratch website does have its own unique appearance, but the efforts involved might put you back. Whereas, simply accessing an existing template means you start with an edge over competitors. Most of the templates come with plenty of off-the-shelf functionalities (which by the way have been tested by other users as well). So, this is an easy approach adopted by all major WordPress Development Company.

1. Throw in some Mystery Plugins

The whole purpose of this blog is to help you out in fast, and easy WordPress website development, loved by clients.

This is exactly where these mysterious plugins will help you with.

Again, I take it for granted that you won’t be interested in basic plugins, thereby cutting the story short, let’s jump to some great plugins to add to web design.

User Admin Simplifier: Frankly, clients are rarely interested in managing the complete WP admin panel. Here you can create a customized, and easy to use admin panel for clients, which will surely make him fall for your courtesy, and expertise.

WordPress Backup to Dropbox: This is again a high utility plugin, which ensures the data remains safe in case of any unforeseen incident.

Tweet Old Post: No one has the time to update twitter account on daily basis. This utility plugin can do it for you or your client

Again, I am going to share just three plugins here, but there are lot more that you can search out easily.

Time to Act:

WordPress might not be too fancy, or easy to the liking of some clients, or designers, but it sure is a great platform for Website designing. All you got to do is to stay updated with the latest happenings in the industry and keep a close eye on all utility tools, and gears you can play around with.