The new website was designed to provide Access 2 Community and Friendship with a welcoming, modern online presence that reflects the organization and makes it easier for visitors to learn more about its mission and activities.
One of the primary goals of the project was to make information easy to find while creating an inviting experience for visitors. The new website provides clear navigation to important areas including information about the organization, upcoming events, recognitions, photos, news, ways to donate, and opportunities to get in touch.
The site is also designed to work seamlessly across desktop computers, tablets, and mobile devices, ensuring visitors can easily access information wherever they are.
As with every website we build, our work doesn’t end when the new site goes live. RooSites will continue working with Access 2 Community and Friendship to help keep its website updated, secure, backed up, and performing at its best.
This ongoing website management allows the organization to focus on its mission while knowing its online presence is being professionally maintained.
We invite you to visit the new Access 2 Community and Friendship website and learn more about the organization, its programs, events, and community.
Visit: access2communityandfriendship.com
RooSites Web Development, LLC is proud to welcome Access 2 Community and Friendship to our family of clients, and we look forward to supporting their website for years to come.
If your business or organization needs a new website — or needs help managing and improving an existing one – contact RooSites Web Development to learn how we can help.
Fast-forward a few years, the author of their theme discontinued updating it, and the site would break with the advent of PHP 7.2. So, they were forced to update the theme.
The unexpected benefit is that the site now looks modern and fabulous. Their site had started to look a bit dated, as most do after for four or five years. I typically try to use themes from quality authors who keep them up to date. In this case the theme we used was brand-new, and was by a highly rated author. Sadly they dumped all their buyers and just created a new theme to try to force people to buy the new one. I wrote about this in my last blog post, Beware of WordPress Theme Authors Who Abandon Their Work.
But back to the point. The beauty of WordPress is you can switch themes and update your site’s look and feel fairly easily and keep your content. That’s right, keep your content if it is still working for you, and performing well with search engines. I typically like to stick with a theme that uses the same page builder if at all possible. In this case we were using a theme that used the WPBakery page builder. What this did is save the client a lot of time and money as a lot of the shortcodes still worked. The nice part about a lot of the modern premium themes is that you can switch your look and feel within those themes (without switching) as they have several design options and drag-and-drop functionality. So in essence you can build so many different kinds of sites that don’t look cookie-cutter.
Bottom Line: In this day and age, small business needs to run efficiently and not waste money. So you can’t afford to completely throw away a website every few years. But, you always want to be up to date in terms of your website’s display, security as well as functionality. In the case I mentioned PHP 7.2 was a big improvement within the programming language. The sites are far more secure and the performance is much better. So, as we said in the title do not throw away that WordPress site, update the theme. And as always, if you need help, contact RooSites, we are happy to assist.
