Favorite Website Build Steps

Over the years of building websites large and small I have found that having a reliable, predictable workflow is the the most important aspect with the website development workflow. That seems like a no-brainer, I know. But after using different #Wordpress themes and different page building approaches I have found my favorite steps.

I have come to rely almost exclusively on the #Genesis platform using themes from #StudioPress. Predictability and performance is why I keep coming back to Genesis-based themes.

Years ago, many years ago, I kept running into people raving about the Genesis Framework on message boards, Twitter, and support forums. I didn't know anything about Genesis. Before Wordpress, I had built websites using Dreamweaver and BBEdit for help writing properly formatted html code. When I looked into Genesis, I found that their code and the Themes from Studio Press very clean, fast-loading and extremely stable.

The extra part of reliable came with the addition of Genesis-based plugins that enhanced the functionality of the website. The introduction of #Gutenberg in Wordpress a few years ago further enhanced the website building workflow. Here again, Genesis had kept pace with that step as well by updating their Framework to work with Gutenberg.

I have used Wordpress Themes that employed "page-builders" which I always found to be too cumbersome and time-consuming.

If I need to customize the Theme I'm using even further it can be handled with creating new rules with CSS. CSS or Cascading Style Sheets is the most efficient way to globally handle customized style settings for the Wordpress site.

In closing, my favorite website build steps are:

1. Install Genesis Framework Wordpress Theme
2. Install Genesis-based Child Theme
3. Enhance with Genesis-based plugins
4. Add other necessary plugins as needed
5. Customize design and appearance with CSS
6. After that is the fun part of building the pages' content and creating the graphics.