Revolves

WordPress started out as a simple blogging platform. Nowadays, it competes with other leading CMSes. All the credit goes to it’s continual improvement over time, a dedicated community supporting it, and the endless stream for plugins to make practically everything possible.

Anytime anyone thinks of creating a website, WordPress comes to mind.

However, WordPress is not everything. No, I’m not talking about using any other CMS instead of WordPress. The point is, why use a CMS when one is not required?

Take a personal site having a few static pages, or a personal site of a freelancer offering many services. The site’s pages don’t change much, and WordPress is a total overkill.

This is where standard HTML/CSS proves a better solution. It’s simple, it’s easy and it’s elegant. The way we used to build websites a decade ago is still the best way in many cases.

Now, many complain about having to modify all the pages manually when they make a global change to the site, like adding something to the navigation, footer or header. Now, you can easily combat this by splitting your HTML page into different parts (header, footer, navigation and the actual pages), and gluing them together using PHP.

This drastically reduces your overhead.

Remember, the K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple, Stupid) principle applies to websites too. Why not take advantage of it?