Inspiration
It is a 2015 college project that challenged me to make a website in Word Press that had a solid business idea behind it. Prior to transitioning to Software, I spent 15 years in process management where I saw some of the reasons why business has so much value locked up in process. In helping out my community, my idea was to share my expertise via a consultancy website that helps out for when things go "wonkii"... From general business consultancy to IT consultancy, fixing tomorrows problems today is the tagline that says "I'm here to help!".
How it works
Its a main menu navigation structure where you can reach all webpages through the main menu with drop downs on some menu items including "About" where you can find the blog page in a drop down. There is content on the consultancy practice and a backend that allows it grow with the company size and consultant contributors to the blog in particular.
Challenges I ran into
Inexperience. This is my first website and the skin file used for the initial theme was changed by myself where I had some rework to do. I also had a 404 lockout on my second site that was connected to the same MySQL database as this website and had to redo the website using the updraft plus back ups! The rework was considerable, not to mention the frustration of learning about "sample" pages the hard way!
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
Successful reworking the website using backups and updating it front end and backend to be a little slicker and informative for the user.
What I learned
Never EVER delete a sample page until you have assigned a new "home" page to the front/main page. 404 error codes are truly extra work that can be avoided. Web Development in Word Press is more limited but easier on the design side then source coding it. The content aspects are very time consuming engaging my marketing skills to a level I did not suspect prior to doing it.
What's next for wonkii.ie
Nothing more unless I decide to launch a real consultancy practice called wonkii.ie.
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