Recently I wrote about how many programmers would kill for the ability to work uninterrupted by clients.
Well, the flip-side of that is that not all business-type people think that working with developers is a walk down happy time lane either.
The truth is that there are distinct types of personalities that fit the role of programmer/developer and there are certain character traits that make up the general population of business-type people; both sides have exceptions to the rule, of course. But the generalizations do hold some water.
Fact of the matter? Most business people don’t have the time to learn the ins-and-outs of Microsoft Word let alone what it takes to put together a website. Most don’t have the capacity to learn to speak in one’s and zero’s; we’re talking about specialized skills on both sides of the line.
‘Tech’ was out of reach for many … until now
There has been a drastic change in the accessibility of web development since the introduction of blogging technology.
Blogs enabled anyone to have a presence on the web. Shortly after the concept took off, companies like WordPress made it even easier for those less technically inclined to get in the game.
WordPress and other content management systems (CMS’s) made it very easy to bridge the gap between having to know how to program and wanting to have a web presence.
In addition to the technology being easy for public consumption, many in the development world realized that there was a whole new niche of development to be had; develop programs open-source and give them away. The return for the programmer? High levels of visibility, access to new and unique projects and jobs based on the business community’s interaction with your free and accessible plugins and applications and a new working environment; a client-free development model.
What Does this Mean for the Non-Programmer?
The majority of the people in the blogging community are just regular people; not uber-geeks who can create things out of one’s and zero’s.
How did they get started? How do they make it look like they know how to build a website?
Here’s a recipe for building a FREE website:
- Go and sign up for a WordPress account. A WordPress account will set you up with your own, free, easy to manage website.
- Make it pretty by choosing a new theme for it. A theme is a fast and free way of ’skinning’ your site with a new look and feel. Log into your free wordpress account and you can search and install any one of thousands of free themes.
- Log in start and writing blog posts.
- There you go! You have a FREE Internet presence!
Thanks, but I am a little more motivated. I want my site to Rock!
Ok, read on…
