So I have 2 folks saying that WordPress is not FrontPage or indesign. My goodness gracious me I have never said that it should be! Don’t try to win arguments by using anything you can please!
“It’s designed to help people without that sort of knowledge to build websites and publish their content online.” Said Sam.
Yes it is, that is why it is a huge pain in the rear end having to store 10 hex colors in a word doc and to keep going back to them every time you need them in the post editor! Why on earth would any client like that, that is why we need this solution because it is client centric. Put your customer first, who want to edit their pages. Highlight, click, done!
@catacaustic of course I do that sort of stuff but there are times when pages need their own approach. I combine those principles with giving clients the freedom to make changes.
You can try whatever angle you like to prove how those examples pages I provided could be created but there is no excuse for not having a highlight, click, save solution for colors.
I’m not saying they will but don’t let people think for one moment about moving to wix or some nasty solution like that. Viewpoints of this nature are not client centric but more focused on how much the developer can control the client.
4 points:
1. Client should understand a whole bunch of code has been completed for their site, so they can’t do everything, this includes templates etc.
2. Colors are in the theme and used where required but flexibility should be in place elsewhere.
3. Client should not have to go anywhere near hex codes or html when changimng colors in the post editor. Templates help but they should have some freedom!
4. Client should have flexibility but giving them the option to mess with hex codes and html, obviously this can be problematic. Highlight, click, save because the color is there in the editor. That is a customer centered solution.
There are plenty of ways a developer controls a client on purpose or inadvertently. This is not one of them!
If you can click a font, click to justify, click to add a bullet point, why is clicking for a specific a color you need each time such an issue?
So if WordPress is designed for people who don’t have extensive development skills, surely a color feature I have suggested is exactly the addition required.
When WordPress took away the color picking option a few versions back, leaving post editors users with only being able to add exact colors in the html that was bonkers, many were unhappy about that. Once more, clients furious and for good reason in my eyes. If the client can’t use it fast and efficiently it is not fit for purpose.
