Remedy

The Remedy Band has made the decision to enter the blogosphere and dump the old flash site. While a great mechanism for displaying information in a ‘flashy’ way (hence the name of the product), the flash site was difficult to update, a drag to maintain, completely static, and completely inefficient regarding SEO.

Enter WordPress, a blogging tool that my buddy Scott McDaniel has been advocating for years. He runs a few websites using WordPress, most notably an outstanding site for Mac geeks called www.babygotmac.com, and has been a proponent of WordPress from the first day I met him. He couldn’t have been more accurate in his description of the tool. Having built sites in .html, flash and via a large scale CMS, I’ve had the opportunity to create pages now using many different authoring tools. Without a doubt, using WordPress has got to be one of the most cost effective, easiest ways to develop a site.

Admittedly, you have to know your way around basic web authoring elements, such as setting up a database via hosting services, banging around in .php and .css code periodically to make adjustments and a few Photoshop graphics here and there, but for the most part, the authoring aspect is a breeze. Similar to the large scale CMS I use at work, WordPress allows for simple plugins, toiled over and constructed by people with much higher IQ’s than I, that quickly and easily allow you to insert cool elements into your site such as image galleries, event calendars, video players, and much more.

Have to hand it to my buddy Scott, who usually is way ahead of the curve on things anyway, he was absolutely right on the money in advocating its use for this purpose. Next time he’s out at one of our gigs, each one of us will take a turn buying him a brew.

Thanks Scott!