WordPress seems like a very interesting tool that integrates many website creation functionalities while requiring relatively little coding knowledge. After exploring its features, I noticed similarities between WordPress and the websites I’ve built before, as well as several advantages. For example, in one of my Computer Science courses, I was tasked with creating a personal website. The result can be found at the following link.
This is an unfinished website, built using CSS and HTML templates provided by other developers, which I then customized. From this perspective, both HTML and WordPress achieve similar outcomes: they allow for basic functionality modifications based on templates. However, WordPress offers more advanced features, such as dedicated text editing interfaces, a code mode, and a preview mode, and so on. For me, this additional complexity might feel a bit overwhelming. WordPress is incredibly efficient when it comes to embedding external content. For instance, I wouldn’t know how to embed a 3D model in a traditional website, but WordPress makes it significantly easier.
Given these features, I plan to use WordPress to organize my work in Digital Humanities, including 3D models, data visualizations, and other related projects. This approach will save me plenty of time.
Compared to posting content on social media platforms, WordPress has the advantage of offering more diverse functionalities and allowing for more control over creating a website that matches my vision through coding. This is something social media cannot achieve. However, the different modes in WordPress can be confusing for beginners, and its capabilities are ultimately more limited than those of a fully coded website. Therefore, after this trimester, I still plan to stick with frontend development.
