Is WordPress Cheating?
The feeling of creating something that is entirely your own handiwork is one of those experiences that fills the new web developers of the world with the same kind of pride reserved for the time you realise you’re riding your bike by yourself, and your parents let go several yards back.
Is the feeling of accomplishment marred by building a site using something that already exists though?
There are a lot of tools at your disposal as a foundation for a new website.
Rob teaches how to use two of the most commonly used foundations available in his complete web development course — WordPress and Bootstrap.
WordPress is a Content Management System (CMS), which allows you to design a site around ready-made themes and plugins, and provides a back-end control panel to easily add new posts and pages. It’s also the most commonly used tool in the world used to build websites, being behind an estimated 24.1% of all websites online.
Bootstrap is framework offered by Twitter that defines specific element types and how to display them. You can then create a website by adding elements that you assign as having a specific type, allowing Bootstrap’s pre-made libraries to do all the formatting for you, leaving a sleek, consistent, and (unless you make a special effort otherwise) responsive site.
If you’ve spent good hours, days, weeks and months perfecting your HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and MySQL skills though, why would you then want to surrender them to a mass-use CMS or framework?
What would be the point in making the effort to learn the fundamentals if you can fall back on a framework to do it for you?
This is a question that I’ve seen asked a few times, and though it’s an understandable question to ask, it’s not really the correct question to ask.
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