To use WordPress for client dev?

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First let me state I'm not a programmer and subcontract out all my web design. Recently many of my customers have been asking for an option to edit content, add pages, upload new pics and videos. I'm considering using WordPress but don't know if the backend of WordPress would be too complicated for a non-programmer to use.

I have a subcontractor that has a coldfusion option that will do all this in a very easy backend but his cost is too expensive.

Please give me advise if I can create WordPress site and then have them maintained by the business owner without any help from my programmers.

Thanks

William
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  • The Wordpress admin backend isn't complicated at all. It's pretty intuitive and doesn't really require any knowledge of programming or web design. You can add/edit/delete posts and pages without having to know anything about HTML, PHP or Javascript. You can change your "theme" just by uploading it to the right directory on your server and selecting it in the admin panel.

    Out of every CMS I've ever used and almost every blogging platform I've ever used, Wordpress is by far the easiest (ok, Blogger might be a little easier.. but for the features Wordpress offers I don't think anything could be simpler).
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    I recommend wordpress anyday of the week.

    It was easy for me to figure out. Plus, you're able to trick it out like a car.

    I have several wordpress blogs in different niches. I even have one in a rare niche for a myspace/facebook app. I used wordpress to make it a news site w/ adsense, then I expanded it via plug-ins to become a membership site on top of that.

    And with a few more plugins, I was able to integrate aweber into the picture, so that every subscriber to my wordpress blog was added to my aweber autoresponder.

    My aweber a/r is set so that subscribers get emailed once a day with updates to my blog using the 'blog broadcast' feature.


    Anyway, I love wordpress, and it's something you should recommend to your clients.

    I have people who work on my WP sites for me, and it only took me 5 minutes (tops) to teach them the wordpress dashboard (back-end). I gave them enough privileges to update the site on their own, without altering the look of it.
  • I develop membership plugins for wordpress and have to say it's easiest system to develop for.
    Wordpress is not a problem - clients usually are.

    Clients tends to ask to "change order of things", "move this thingie to that corner", "make this thing wider and that thing more narrow", etc...
    That's when Wordpress shows it's teeth and refuses to cooperate.
    That's what takes tons of time.

    Charge customers FLAT fee for basics - install+configure+SEO optimize and upload custom banner.

    For *ANY* customization charge by the hour. This applies to any CMS/web development, not only Wordpress.

    Gleb
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    To use WordPress for client dev?

    First let me state I'm not a programmer and subcontract out all my web design. Recently many of my customers have been asking for an option to edit content, add pages, upload new pics and videos. I'm considering using WordPress but don't know if the backend of WordPress would be too complicated for a non-programmer to use. I have a subcontractor that has a coldfusion option that will do all this in a very easy backend but his cost is too expensive.