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Wordpress redesign

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  • 31-10-2019 11:08am
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    aoifeisabelle
    Registered Users Posts: 55 ✭✭


    Hi guys,

    I have a wordpress site for my business. It's a basic enough site at the minute probably about 10-12 pages. No ecommerce or anything like that on it.

    I want to update it as we've had the same one for 5 years. We've recently expanded into a new premises so money is tight at the minute so I'm wondering is it possible for me to do this myself? And if so how difficult would it be? Or should I just wait and pay someone?

    I'd be looking to add some content as well as change the overall look of the website.

    Thanks!


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    Jim2007
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 10,292 Mod ✭✭✭✭Jim2007


    aoifeisabelle wrote: »
    Hi guys,

    I have a wordpress site for my business. It's a basic enough site at the minute probably about 10-12 pages. No ecommerce or anything like that on it.

    I want to update it as we've had the same one for 5 years. We've recently expanded into a new premises so money is tight at the minute so I'm wondering is it possible for me to do this myself? And if so how difficult would it be? Or should I just wait and pay someone?

    I'd be looking to add some content as well as change the overall look of the website.

    Thanks!

    Since we know nothing about your knowledge or skills it's very difficult for anyone to tell you if you would be able to do this yourself....

    Do you have a flare for colours, photography etc....

    Do you have the basic IT skills, knowledge of Wordpress.... etc.


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    zig
    Registered Users Posts: 1,206 ✭✭✭zig


    This sort of depends on what hourly rate you value your own time at because if you spend a long time playing around with this, it could be argued its costing more.

    If you are looking for a nice WP site on a very tight budget I would recommend approaching a freelancer but with the view that they could use a theme which you could have picked out for them, and like Jim2007 said, if you have good photography and eye for colours etc it might make things even easier.

    Basically tell them you would be willing to do as much as possible and all they need do is set up and configure the theme on a domain.


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    dazftw
    Registered Users Posts: 5,728 ✭✭✭dazftw


    If you're on a tight budget I would reccommend just adding a new theme to give it a fresh look.

    Look up Divi by Elegant Themes.

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    daymobrew
    Registered Users Posts: 6,505 ✭✭✭daymobrew


    dazftw wrote: »
    If you're on a tight budget I would reccommend just adding a new theme to give it a fresh look.

    Look up Divi by Elegant Themes.
    I second the first part (a new theme).

    What I don't like about Divi is that it uses shortcodes in the content and this will make it very very difficult to change to a different theme in the future.

    If you want to do it yourself I suggest getting a theme from wordpress.org/themes or a good theme shop (I always use themes from StudioPress).


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