How to Create a Website Offline – Caring for Your WordPress Site
If you’re reading this, I assume you’re either a WordPress enthusiast or a site owner who’s been aware of the various benefits of the platform.
WordPress allows you to run a business or a blog from any location, as long as you have a Wi-Fi connection.
You can create websites without an internet connection, but there are cases where this might not be possible or desirable. Say you’re creating a physical business, and you need to ensure the information you provide is accurate; in other cases, you might want to create a mock-up of a website and then show it to clients to get their reaction.
Create A Product List
A website’s product list is essentially its menu of offerings. It’s a place where customers can go to find the products or services your business provides. The products or services offered by your business. If you sell shoes, you could have a product list for men’s, women’s, and infants’ footwear. Or if you offer hairstyle and makeup services, you could have a product list for hair, makeup, and skin care.
Your product list will consist of a few product items (shopping carts), but it will need to be a comprehensive list. You wouldn’t want customers to visit your site and find it hard to navigate your product offerings. You also want to ensure that all of your products are distinct from one another.
Keep Up With Trends
If you’ve been a site owner for any length of time, you know how trendy platforms can be. WordPress is one of the most fashionable platforms around. It’s agile, flexible, and versatile. Which is why it’s been around for so long.
With the right theme and plugins, you can create a website that looks and functions just like the one you see on TikTok or Instagram. However, creating these websites isn’t as easy as it sounds. It takes time. Patience.
Vary The Product Photos
When you create a product list with distinct product items, you have to think of a way to visually represent each of them. This is where your product photos come in. They need to be visually appealing and representative of the product they’re supposed to show. But they also need to be distinct from one another. If you have four product items that are identical aside from the color of the images used, the visual appeal of your website will suffer. Unless, of course, the colors you choose are subtle and blended well enough to avoid giving the appearance of sameness.
Mobile-Friendly Design
We’re now living in a world where more people are accessing the web on mobile devices than computers. Which means the design of your website needs to accommodate these users. Fortunately, WordPress allows you to create a mobile-friendly website. With a few themes and a few plug-ins, you can have a fully functioning and usable website on any device.
Your visitors will likely come from all over the world, but you want your website to look good no matter where they come from.
If you have a physical store, you might find it beneficial to create a digital replica of your store. There are a few cases where a virtual store might be the better option. Say you have an Italian restaurant in New York City, and you want to show it to customers in Rome. Or you have a jewelry store that does most of its business online, and you want to show it to customers in Tokyo.
In these cases, a virtual store might be the better option. You can take advantage of the global nature of the internet to show your products to people all over the world. There are a few platforms that can help you with this, such as Shopify and Bigcommerce.
If you decide that creating a website isn’t for you, don’t fret. There are a variety of other CMSs (Content Management Systems) that you might consider. Each one is suitable for creating a website, and some of them are even better suited than WordPress for certain tasks.