Website Design Knowledgebase
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The WordPress Content Management System (CMS) is the most popular on the planet. Combined with Woo Commerce also makes it the number one platform for E-Commerce.
Yes. Older Trinis will recall back in the day, two other popular platforms, namely, Joomla and Drupal. They were typically in the same CMS conversation with WordPress, but it was only WordPress that took off and dominates to today. Joomla and Drupal are still in use today but they serve more specialized niches and remain alternatives to WordPress.
No. These are generally DIY website platforms for savvy users who want simple websites that they can build and manage without hiring a professional web designer. These platforms are not at the same level of WordPress.
GoDaddy’s web builder promises a website in minutes using AI and answering a few questions. This platform is along the lines of Wix, Weebly for a basic website presence.
Yes. There are around 1,200 generic top level domains (TLDs) in addition to the most common .com. For a while simple variations like .net and .org and .co were added to the line-up, and then an avalanche of every conceivable industry specific domain followed: .accountant, .boutique, .clothing, .realestate. There is no substantial advantage to be gained with such domains these days; it’s a matter of your own personal preference.
Domains with our country extension .tt, are managed locally by The Trinidad and Tobago Network Information Centre.
Generally the consensus is that a local country code top-level domain provides significant advantages for businesses looking to target specific, local, or regional markets, especially for improved local SEO. However in Trinidad & Tobago, interest and popularity for our own .tt domain waned considerably since the dawn of our website era which started about 10-15 years ago. Our country code domain prices are considerably higher and most TT businesses are not looking to restrict their markets to just our own.
If you don’t know much about the technical side of hosting, it’s best to stick with the mainstream hosts like GoDaddy, Bluehost, Dreamhost, Siteground, all of which you already know. Websites in Trinidad & Tobago do not particularly require resources beyond the standard available hosting plans. In our experience, Trinis do have a knack of finding obscure hosts though.
If there are, they are are very good at keeping secrets as there no web hosts in Trinidad & Tobago that anyone can name at the top of their heads. There are many IT professionals who do set up internal servers for local companies. However, dealing with Trinis for such a technical industry will always be hit and miss; it’s perfectly conceivable that if your website goes down in the middle of the night you’ll have to wake up a man from his bed to fix it. The best advice is to play it safe with the US-based mainstream hosts.
Yes. The back-end is very user friendly and anyone comfortable with computer applications like Word, Excel can be easily trained to make simple updates to page content, image galleries and menus before having to call us.
Our promised lead-time is generally 6-8 weeks. The counter starts when we receive the first information from the client. We encourage clients to submit info in a timely manner to keep the project moving.
After the courtesy post-launch support period, clients can enroll in our affordable annual maintenance plans.