WordPress Ride Environs

WORDPRESS RIDE

THE PAST 3 YEARS HAS SEEN THE EMERGENCE OFWORDPRESS RIDE - RAPID INTERACTIVE

DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONSTHIS HAS BEEN A REVOLUTION IN HOW ALL WEBSITES ARE BEST DESIGNED AND BUILT

PROMISE OF RIDE• RIDE ELIMINATES THE NEED FOR CODING IN HTML, CSS, PHP, JAVASCRIPT, SQL. IT FULFILLS

THE WORDPRESS PROMISE OF WEBSITE DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT WITH MINIMAL CODING REQUIRED

• RIDE ENCOURAGES WYSIWYG –WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET OPERATIONS• INTERACTIVE VISUAL DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT ALL THE TIME• POINT AND CLICK OPERATIONS WHENEVER POSSIBLE• DRAG AND DROP PREBUILT COMPONENTS ONTO A PAGE • OR CHANGE THEIR POSITION, ORDER, SIZE & DIMENSIONS WITH INTUITIVE MOUSE INTERACTIONS

PROMISE OF RIDE II• LAYOUT OF PROGRAMS AND WEBSITES HAVE MANY REPEATED FEATURES,

RIDE MAKES REUSE OF THOSE COMMON ELEMENTS MUCH EASIER WITH PREBUILT TEMPLATES

• THIS SPEEDS TRYING OUT DESIGN IDEAS AND/OR REVISING A SITE RAPIDLY• AGILE DEVELOPMENT OF RAPID DESIGN WITH IMMEDIATE TESTING IS ACHIEVED

PROMISE OF RIDE III• STYLING FOR THESE UI WIDGETS OFTEN FOLLOWS A COMMON LOOK & FEEL• RIDE ALLOWS USERS TO STYLE UI ELEMENTS IN SIMPLE INTERACTIVE, POINT @ CLICK OPS• AGAIN, DIFFERENT STYLING DESIGNS FOR COLOR, SPACING, TYPE ETC ARE EASY TO

TRYOUT

RIDE HAS 3 MAJOR TOOLS – THEME BUILDERS

• 1)THEME BUILDERS FOR LAYING OUT OVERALL DESIGN OF THE WEBSITE• FREE TOOLS ARE GOOD – ESTEEM, GENERATE PRESS, VANTAGE• PREMIUM TOOLS ARE MUCH BETTER – HEADWAY, ULTIMATUM, THEMIFY BUILDER• IF YOU HAVE 3 OR MORE WEBSITES TO BUILD/MAINTAIN IN A YEAR, A THEME BUILDER IS A MUST

HAVE

RIDE HAS 3 MAJOR TOOLS – PAGEBUILDERS

• 2)PAGEBUILDERS FOR ADDING WIDGETS/COMPONENT CONTENT TO A POST/PAGE• FREE TOOLS ARE VERY GOOD – FORGE, LIVECOMPOSER, SO PAGEBUILDER• PREMIUM TOOLS ARE BETTER – BEAVER BUILDER, CORNERSTONE, VISUAL COMPOSER• A PAGEBUILDER YOU ARE COMFORTABLE WITH IS A WORDPRESS MUST HAVE

RIDE HAS 3 MAJOR TOOLS – STYLE EDITORS

• 3)STYLE EDITORS FOR REFINING THE LOOK AND FEEL OF A WEBSITE• FREE TOOLS ARE VERY GOOD – SO CSS EDITOR• PREMIUM TOOLS ARE BETTER – CSSHERO, HEADWAY STYLE EDITOR• STYLE EDITORS SAVE SO MUCH TIME SOLVING TOUGH CSS FORMATTING PROBLEMS

RIDE SUMMARY

• RIDE TOOLS SPEED UP ALL ASPECTS OF WORDPRESS FRONTEND DEVELOPMENT• RIDE DELIVERS ON TWO WORDPRESS PROMISES: WYSIWYG & NO CODING REQUIRED• RIDE DELIVERS AGILE RESULTS – IMMEDIATE TESTING AND FEEDBACK FOR CLIENTS• RIDE TOOLSETS WORK WELL TOGETHER: THEME BUILDER PAGEBUILDER STYLE

EDITOR• A FEW FREE RIDE PLUGINS ARE VERY GOOD

PROBLEMS WITH WORDPRESS RIDE• A LOT OF “FOOLS GOLD” OUT THERE – OVER 2 DOZEN BUILDERS , MANY

ARE INEFFECTIVE• MANY TOOLS FALL SHORT OF ESSENTIAL FEATURES• RUNTIME PERFORMANCE HIT, USERS HAVE TO TUNE THE RESULTING

SLOW PAGES/POSTS• SMALL SET OF FREE TOOLS AVAILABLE – BUT THERE ARE SOME VERY

GOOD FREE TOOLS• TECHNOLOGY CHANGING VERY RAPIDLY – E.G. BACKEND AND PAGE ONLY

TOOLS LANGUISH• PAGE BUILDER LOCK IN – NOT EASY TO SWITCH OR REVERT TO

BASIC WP EDITOR