On balance, it is better for businesses learn to WordPress than other aspects of web development.

Intro: For those of you who do not know much about this topic, I will briefly elaborate on the topic to make this easier to understand for the readers who aren’t familiar with this area. When you want to make a website, there are several ways you can do it. You can write up the code yourself, in a few of the many online coding languages that exist, or you can install a third party application that assists you in designing, and developing your website. There are several Content Management Systems like this out there, but the most popular one by far, is WordPress. WordPress is designed to be a lot more user friendly than having to code an entire website from scratch. [1] C1: WordPress is designed to better help new businesses. WordPress is probably one of the best services there is for new business, and people with personal interests in web building. For many people, staring into a line of code can be intimidating. The idea of having to learn how to do it can be pretty frightening. But hiring a web developer will cost quite a bit of money, and adding the cost of a developer is just one more expense that businesses will have to encounter. WordPress is easy to learn and work. In fact, with WordPress, an individual can build and design a fully functioning website in under two hours, from watching step by step YouTube tutorials. I myself did it with my first website, before I learned different coding languages. Tyler Moore is one of the most popular video tutorial creators for WordPress for example [2] WordPress has awesome custom templates for free, so that these businesses don’t have to waste time adding padding, margin, weights, colors, etc to make an awesome design. They can easily browse the internet for great existing templates that fit their needs, and install them to their website. [3] Not having to do any design work, saves an enormous amount of time. Of course most web developers know, the same templates can be used in virtually any code language, however, it also requires knowledge of where to put content in lines of code, knowledge of style tags, value, properties, etc. To properly learn all of this, is can take weeks to months. Most businesses would prefer to hire a developer rather than try to do this all themselves, as time is money. 1 Hour of work and following a video tutorial, can save both time and money, and that is one reason why WordPress is superior than other coding languages. C2: WordPress is better for existing developers WordPress is famous for its many plug-ins that help add different functionality aspects to the site. All you have to do is search for a plug-in that contains the functionality that you are looking for, and the plug in does all the work for you![4] This can save time on attaching multiple external ja vascript, and Jquery sheets. You can add membership without having to manually create databases, roles, etc. WordPress can do almost anything you can imagine doing in other coding languages. The designs themselves are slightly less customizable, which is rarely a problem because most customers will be attracted to the pre-existing templates anyway. Well saying they are “less customizable” really isn’t that true. I downloaded a plug-in and added it to WordPress that allows you to create tables, embed photos/ music/videos, add galleries, etc. [5] (Visual Composer is awesome!) Basically you can do everything in WordPress that you could do in design view on Visual Studio 2013 or Dreamweaver, but in a way that is much more user friendly. The point of this contention is, that Web Developers can help their own customers and save plenty of time by using WordPress, making their business more effective saving time, and give their customer something they will love! Most customers will not know the difference between a WordPress website, or one built with hours of HTML and CSS. Imagine being a web developer with multiple customers, only having to spend 1-2 hours per customer, and making anywhere from 300-500$ per project!? C3: Too many different languages to learn is overwhelming There are many different languages and aspects of web development that people will encounter in web development. While all aren’t entirely needed, most developers will have to learn at least 2-3 coding languages in order to develop mobile apps, web apps, and websites. For example the standard two languages used in most websites, are HTML/XHTML and CSS. Most tutorials for these languages would have required you to already know another language, for example W3schools. Before you continue you should have a basic understanding of the following: HTML / XHTML [6] "To make a website more dynamic, they may have to learn a few more coding languages on top of that. New developers will see languages and terms that don’t make sense to them, but they will have to learn them. They need to know what databases are and how to use them to store information, how to interact with languages like C#, C++, Perl, PHP/MySQL, etc. There is simply way too much to learn, with very little benefit. Most businesses or clients won’t understand the little benefit in the first place, and can more than likely experience that same feel from a WordPress website by adding the right plugins. WordPress’s admin dashboard is designed to be easy to use, and self-explanatory, though watching a youtube video or two to show you the works never hurt anyone. Conclusion: WordPress is much better suited for new businesses and new developers. Learning WordPress saves time, money, and frustration. With WordPress, you do not have to navigate to the w3schools page every 10 minutes to see if your code is healthy. WordPress can help you get a website out that looks great, feels great, and advertises exactly what the client wants and needs without all the added effort. It is for these reasons, that I believe WordPress is better to learn for new businesses. 1. http://www.wp101.com...2. http://www.youtube.com...3. http://wordpress.org...4. http://codex.wordpress.org...5.http://codecanyon.net...6. http://www.w3schools.com...