Reviewing the WordPress website building application with comparisons to Markdown and Mobrise
In trying different methods for building websites, I have found that each comes with its own advantages and disadvantages and that each has its own trade-offs for its advantages. WordPress, similar to Mobirise, is a website-building software available for free. However, as opposed to being an offline application, WordPress is an online product. After now having used Markdown, Mobirise, and WordPress to publish websites, I have found that, overall, I preferred WordPress to Mobirise due to the greater flexibility offered by WordPress and its ability to incorporate Markdown.
WordPress offers many conveniences for anyone trying to build an attractive website. Like Mobirise, it uses the concept of “blocks” to help you build your website. The simplicity of this “block” system allows for the creation of attractive, professional-looking websites with minimal to no coding experience or learning needed. As such, WordPress and Mobirise are very well-suited for anyone who has minimal experience or is uncomfortable with building their own website from scratch. However, a difference between WordPress and Mobirise is that WordPress offers greater flexibility than Mobirise by providing more block templates for free and a greater variety of block types to use. For instance, WordPress has a block type with which you can form columns and allows you to begin building your site “from scratch” rather than using a website template if none of the templates available for free suits your wants or needs. However, as with Mobirise, I was unable to find a way to provide alternate text for links and the alternate text I was able to attach to the image I used on the page doesn’t appear when I hover over the image. While there are many other ways to incorporate accessibility in your website, alternate text is a good base example I like to use since it is simple and should (in my opinion) be easily achievable when building a website in any way.
Despite the issues with WordPress, it does have the advantage of being capable of incorporating Markdown. Since Markdown is capable of providing alternate text for links and is simpler to use in creating basic formatting for text, this is a large advantage to using WordPress over Mobirise. As such, as I begin building my project, I am leaning towards using WordPress in tandem with Markdown so that I can combine the advantages of WordPress’s visual components and Markdown’s simplicity and ease of use.
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