I dived right into WordPress.com because it’s easy. I bought a domain name somewhere else and mapped it to an exisiting wordpress.com page in a very short amount of time. WordPress.com looks nice, is really simple to use, and is totally free. But what are the drawbacks?
For starters, I can’t use Google Analytics. If you don’t know what it is, learn it. It’s awesome. The problem is that it’s only available through WordPress.ORG. Through WordPress.org you can install a quick and easy plug-in and be up and running in no time, but with WordPress.com you’re S.O.L.
There are tons of amazing, and free, custom WordPress themes that you can download and install at toxel.com. Again, the problem is that you can’t upload them to your WordPress unless you have WordPress.org installed on your hosting space. Some of the themes come with the CSS in some sort of .php file, but you’ll lose all of the images attached to said theme if you can’t install them in a specific WordPress directory on a hosting space.
The long and short of this post is that what I have here is not adequate for all intents and purposes. These are features I would like be able to utilize within the next year, and I wish I would have been less hasty in making my decision. If I had taken the more challenging path and built something that could be a little more dynamic, this page ultimately could have become something that would have met all of my future needs.
Filed under: J456: creative strategist
