Varun Rampal

My dad needs some online help. He has holding group but no website for it, a website for his real estate brokerage but no websites for the other businesses & you can only find his website if you Google it EXACTLY down to the URL.

For these any many other reasons I have decided to rebuild my dad’s website & online presence (the first time he built it he forgot he has a son who works in an online agency).

I have two options for building the website

1. Static HTML website – the quick & easy option. Pages are designed & built. Even if there are updates to the site it will probably be updates to the contact details
2. Content Management website – the long & not so easy option but I can completly mange the content of the website. I’ve never built a site 100% on my own only worked with teams of people who build the website (designers, UI developers, programmers)

I decided to go with option 2 since I will learn a LOT & this will help my personal & professional development.

The techies & Mazen (Flip account director) at work they give me two recommendations for Content Management Systems. The first is WordPress which this blog is built on. The second is Joomla! Most people are telling me to use Joomla! as its suited for websites whereas WordPress is more suited for blogs.

I decide to go with Joomla! trusting the techies know what they’re talking about & after reading some reviews online comparing WordPress with Joomla! for websites & the Beginners Guide to Joomla! is a good start