My WordPress experience felt very familiar and made me think of the ways in which these kinds of personalizations have become so much part of my life. The idea of crafting a public profile is almost ordinary. WordPress, for people who are usually on the client side of coding like me, is very easy to understand. Now that I have experience using HTML and other more skeletal building tools, I have felt the slight frustration of not being able to change things on a small and pointed scale. The provided templates had a ready-made quality which was both a relief and a constraint. I wish that the pre-made tabs and pages did not appear before I edited them, though their purpose is for you to feel like you already have more than you do, or to make you want to add more material (it’s already there, so why not add it?). However, I find it unsatisfying to know that there are many pages and tabs on my website as it stands right now that are not filled in and appear blank to a user. I would prefer them to be nonexistent until I add them. Currently I am interested in how to make my website more customized in terms of color– most of the given templates are very bland and I would like to have a clean, minimal, yet colorful interface.
I made a website in 8th grade on the fall of the Berlin Wall using Weebly. It was laborious but only on the research end, not on the building end. It was an extremely simple interface, even simpler than WordPress in that it was just typing into a text box and adding rudimentary images. Since I have not used Weebly since then, I do not remember if I was simply not making use of some possible widgets and tools on the builder or if they simply did not exist. I am thinking about the differences between Weebly and WordPress– maybe Weebly is even more user-friendly (i.e. client-friendly) on the spectrum of friendliness than WordPress, which I would also describe as quite novice-friendly. Since I was in 8th grade, the templates and tools on website builders have obviously become more sophisticated, but I doubt that they have become much more difficult to use.
My website can be found here: http://ckryzda.com/
