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Anyone creating or requiring a modern web presence.
Organizations with creative teams who are bogged down with design requests for marketing or sales collateral and looking to empower their non-designer colleagues with brand templates.
Wordpress is great because you have everything needed to build a great website right out of the box. It's very simple but allows for content management and has a nice development framework.
Sometimes there is the occasional time where you may have a critical error. The worst thing that can happen to you is that you don't backup your website and then you update and it all goes away.
My experience using Wordpress has been super great in building a good-looking website in only really a few hours. The Wordpress plugins are also a really great implementation.
Extremely inconvenient for first-time users. Heavily text-based and can be confusing for learners to navigate through it.
It is super nice that you can turn a free website to what you want. I also like the fact that developers can make money either setting up websites for companies or designing and coding layouts.
Defective plugins can be a problem when using Wordpress. In some cases, plugins can slow down the performance of a website, and sometimes become a gateway to a hacking attack.
From my own experience, using the free version of the program, you will be able to do wonderful things. This program is for people who like the simple software, elegant and efficient.
WordPress sites are vulnerable to hacking, attacks and spamming and often you only learn this once you've been attacked. More should be done for security.
I like all the templates that they have ans it is fairly easy to customize them. The documents have a nice quality to them when they are printed.
Sometimes if we need other people to collaborate on a document it is a little more difficult, the team who uses the product saves PDFs so can be cumberson for edits/updates.
Wonderful options!!! The software as how it is set up makes life so easy for me to work with clients. The ease in which I can create is fantastic.
It is difficult to export it to Power Point so that it renders without aliasing the text.
We were able to create a beautiful press for a charitable campaign quickly. Graphics were good and my partners on the deal were extremely happy with the look.
I found that the program often froze or was delayed which made things difficult. I also found that sizing of objects was not as easy as it could be, I would prefer an option to type in the dimensions.
The overall experience was great. We were able to publish a monthly newsletter promoting the exciting accomplishments of our school and community.
The pricing is the only downside, comparing to similar apps on market, this is probably is the expensive one I found.
Jonathan T.: Hi, I'm Jonathan. I am the owner of a creative and web design studio, and my review of WordPress is that it's five stars. Prior to WordPress, boy, I have used all sorts of different things. Different builders built into other platforms, like Kajabi or Wix, Squarespace, all of those, even some old ones back in the day, like Homestead, and even just straight on up HTML. I've moved all of my development into WordPress because it is just easy. It's a heck of a web standard. Runs, I think, over a third of websites on the internet. There's a plugin for everything, so if it doesn't do it out of the box, somebody else has probably thought of that already for me, so it's easy to plug in new features that I need. I've really found my groove with a great theme and builder combo that I can use quickly and easily to have great results. WordPress, well, back when I got started, there was a little bit more to it years and years and years ago. But these days, boy, it is easy to get started with it. There's so much more built-in functionality right out of the box, and I'd say most people can get going on a WordPress site. And then as you learn more, you can add more functionalities, you get more comfortable with it, and then you can really make some great stuff with it. If you are considering using WordPress for your business, I'd say take a look at what you need your site to do. Is it just that front-facing kind of brochure site? Do you need membership? Do you need people logging in? Do you need to sell things? All of those are, of course, possible with WordPress, but you just need to understand what functionalities might you need to add in with plugins, themes, and all that things. And then also consider finding a good builder that, depending how your brain works, can make designing pages in your site a whole lot easier, more straightforward, and there are some pretty powerful tools out there that can really make it a breeze.
Travis: Hi, I'm Travis, a Director of Development in the non-profit industry, and I would give Lucidpress four out of five stars. Before Lucidpress, we had Microsoft Illustrator and unfortunately it wasn't as intuitive to me. When I jumped on board in my position, I was looking for something that had just a wide range of features, and it didn't seem like at least our version of Illustrator was up to snuff with the vision that I had for the assignments that were before me, such as newsletter generation and other things. And so when I looked around, searched online, said a prayer, because I had no idea where to go, I actually came across Lucidpress and was pleasantly surprised. At the end of the day, after doing my search through the different publishing softwares, I decided on Lucidpress because it seemed like it not only gave us the most bang for our buck, but it also seemed to just have all the features that we need. They're constantly doing updates, and it's been four years since I made that decision and I'm still very comfortable with it. It's just been very easy to get the job done and also to train staff. They seem to pick it up pretty easily as well, and that helps. And so it's just been a nice process. Our printing company, they work well with us and they seem to understand it. And it's a really big plus to have it as cloud-based because when you're sending those big files, it's nice to just be able to go to the printing company, download it on their computers, and just allow it to do its job, and for them to take over from there, rather than having to dumb down one of the files in order for it to process or send via email. So there's a lot of great features to sum it all up, and the addition or the option for it to be on cloud is just a huge plus that makes our workflow a lot easier. It was very easy to onboard into Lucid. I was given the task of creating a newsletter that had already been in existence before I had started at my current position, and I had a vision for what I wanted to do, and it was great to be able to get into Lucid and easily identify what needs to be done. And I don't have a graphic design background by any means, but it just talks and shows and presents itself well. And so I think anyone who has a general understanding of what they want to do and of manipulating even Microsoft Paint or something like that, I think you would be able to pick up Lucidpress pretty easily. If you're considering Lucidpress, I would recommend that you gauge the price against the features. I think that's a huge draw to have a cloud-based publishing software. You might gauge it against the others, against the competitors, and assess even the templates and the things that are already available to you. I was able to create the newsletter that is still going on by manipulating a template that was involved in Lucid for our purposes. I did a fair amount of changing it, but it's still actually, four years later, serving as the base. And it's given the feel and the branding to our non-profit's newsletter. So I think just based on the price, the cloud integration or the cloud availability, and then all the features that come in, I think if you gauge it against the other ones, the competitors that are out there, it's going to be a very competitive publisher. And I think you would be good to make your decision with it and you'd feel that you confidently made a good choice.
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