Why I used WordPress to make my new website

I know nobody asked this, but it was very weird to make a website using wordpress.com (monilsoni.com) when a lot of developers are using cool JavaScript to make their website. So to be honest I tried hard last year to get momentum on starting a website - I even started writing business requirements for my website and following all the due processes but I just couldn't get started. I finally made a simple website using Bootstrap which went okay for a while. I wasn't happy with the content, but it was something and something is always better than nothing.

But I always felt that I needed to make a better website and changing some little thing required me to open a text editor, edit an HTML line and then push the code. Ideally, there would be a separation between text content and the platform that is serving the content but we do not live in this ideal world. So I figured that I needed a better and easier way to manage a website and content.

I talked to my friend Mit who is an expert when it comes to anything related to Web Development about the tech I should use based on my previous experiences with creating a website. We discovered a bunch of different alternatives such as Fluttr, but it wasn't just cutting it. I was hesitant about using WordPress because I always thought it was this weird complex machine that was mainly for people who wanted to run a business or a fully functional blog. I just wanted to have one mostly static website. But I think Mit convinced me to try it out, and I did. I put my biases aside, and I decided I'm not going to complain about how overloaded the interface is for about 1 day and see what I can make out of it.

I wrote some content, and then it lay there for a while, waiting for my next burst of motivation. And that motivation came, and I felt like now was the time to update my online presence everywhere. I am anyway trying to be a little more active on LinkedIn and, so, I had decided to fill in multiple things, get a decent picture clicked. On the same day, I set some more hours outside and edited the content, set up a theme, links to my socials, etc. Obviously, I forced Ashit and Manali to look at it and give me feedback before I made it public and then made it public anyway.

So yeah, the reason I chose WordPress - using it is simple. It just works. I was more interested in how the end product looked and what content I put out than what tech stack I used to get it done. While I admit the WordPress interface can be better, I think it is for the best. I'm going to add more content on the website (yeah, right), and that's it for this post. Peace.

Location: Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

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