Re: How well do your clients use WordPress?

Sorry... I haven't used WordPress but thought I'd jump in. I've had a 
similar experience with a highly customized XOOPS CMS I set up for a non 
profit association membership site. No one will use the site! It's chalk 
full of features and much more interactive and useful than the prior 
site. I was hoping they would take on a bit more (posting news items, 
forum posts, use the online chat for meetings, etc.), but no go. They 
act as if they hardly know how to use a computer! It was a lot of hard 
work and I'm very proud of it but it's a shame it isn't being used to 
its full potential.

Brenda wrote:
> I've built a few WordPress sites recently, and am discovering that the 
> clients really don't seem to be able to follow instructions very well, 
> and/or WordPress isn't really so easy to use for someone totally unfamiliar

> with HTML. They love to cut-and-paste from formatted Word documents, and 
> upload multi-megabyte pictures. We had a thread a while back about CMSs not

> always working out well for the clients; I guess this is just more of the 
> same.
> 
> Just rambling here ... obviously an exciting New Year's Eve at our house 
> (just waiting around until it's time to go pick up my teenage daughter from

> a party).
> 
> ...Brenda
> 
> 
> 

Can we see it, Brenda?

-- 
Eleanor T. Culling
Leavenworth, WA
Experience Art
http://www.uppervalleyarts.com/experienceart.htm


"NLord" <mail@nowhere.com> wrote in message 
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> Sorry... I haven't used WordPress but thought I'd jump in. I've had a 
> similar experience with a highly customized XOOPS CMS I set up for a non 
> profit association membership site. No one will use the site! It's chalk 
> full of features and much more interactive and useful than the prior site.

> I was hoping they would take on a bit more (posting news items, forum 
> posts, use the online chat for meetings, etc.), but no go. They act as if 
> they hardly know how to use a computer! It was a lot of hard work and I'm 
> very proud of it but it's a shame it isn't being used to its full 
> potential.
>
> Brenda wrote:
>> I've built a few WordPress sites recently, and am discovering that the

>> clients really don't seem to be able to follow instructions very well,

>> and/or WordPress isn't really so easy to use for someone totally 
>> unfamiliar with HTML. They love to cut-and-paste from formatted Word 
>> documents, and upload multi-megabyte pictures. We had a thread a while

>> back about CMSs not always working out well for the clients; I guess
this 
>> is just more of the same.
>>
>> Just rambling here ... obviously an exciting New Year's Eve at our
house 
>> (just waiting around until it's time to go pick up my teenage daughter

>> from a party).
>>
>> ...Brenda
>>
>>
>>
> 

I've built a few WordPress sites recently, and am discovering that the 
clients really don't seem to be able to follow instructions very well, 
and/or WordPress isn't really so easy to use for someone totally unfamiliar 
with HTML. They love to cut-and-paste from formatted Word documents, and 
upload multi-megabyte pictures. We had a thread a while back about CMSs not 
always working out well for the clients; I guess this is just more of the 
same.

Just rambling here ... obviously an exciting New Year's Eve at our house 
(just waiting around until it's time to go pick up my teenage daughter from 
a party).

...Brenda

Here's a few ... you'll notice I'm the most frequent poster on some of them!

youth.redlandbaptist.org
www.joyfulnoisechoir.org
www.rpmspta.org
www.sherwoodptsa.org

I haven't listed the particular one I was grousing about earlier ... but 
similar problems have come up on these other ones.

...Brenda

"E. T. Culling" <etcetc@crcwnet.com> wrote in message 
news:4az4tZVLHHA.1124@ns1.xroubaix.com...
> Can we see it, Brenda?
>
> -- 
> Eleanor T. Culling
> Leavenworth, WA
> Experience Art
> http://www.uppervalleyarts.com/experienceart.htm
>
>
> "NLord" <mail@nowhere.com> wrote in message 
> news:ntIeQOVLHHA.1116@ns1.xroubaix.com...
>> Sorry... I haven't used WordPress but thought I'd jump in. I've had a 
>> similar experience with a highly customized XOOPS CMS I set up for a
non 
>> profit association membership site. No one will use the site! It's
chalk 
>> full of features and much more interactive and useful than the prior 
>> site. I was hoping they would take on a bit more (posting news items, 
>> forum posts, use the online chat for meetings, etc.), but no go. They
act 
>> as if they hardly know how to use a computer! It was a lot of hard work

>> and I'm very proud of it but it's a shame it isn't being used to its
full 
>> potential.
>>
>> Brenda wrote:
>>> I've built a few WordPress sites recently, and am discovering that
the 
>>> clients really don't seem to be able to follow instructions very
well, 
>>> and/or WordPress isn't really so easy to use for someone totally 
>>> unfamiliar with HTML. They love to cut-and-paste from formatted
Word 
>>> documents, and upload multi-megabyte pictures. We had a thread a
while 
>>> back about CMSs not always working out well for the clients; I
guess 
>>> this is just more of the same.
>>>
>>> Just rambling here ... obviously an exciting New Year's Eve at our
house 
>>> (just waiting around until it's time to go pick up my teenage
daughter 
>>> from a party).
>>>
>>> ...Brenda
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
> 

I have several clients using Wordpress that I set up and after a slight 
learning curve, they're doing great. One thing I did is used a number of 
plug-ins so things were as idiot proof as possible and they didn't have to 
do much coding (since they know none). I started using a TinyMCE interface 
for them and bagged it. I decided that setting it up using CSS and plug-ins 
so they didn't have to do too much was the way to go.

What kinds of problems are you having with them?

Mad Dog


Brenda wrote:
> I've built a few WordPress sites recently, and am discovering that the
> clients really don't seem to be able to follow instructions very well,
> and/or WordPress isn't really so easy to use for someone totally
> unfamiliar with HTML. They love to cut-and-paste from formatted Word
> documents, and upload multi-megabyte pictures. We had a thread a
> while back about CMSs not always working out well for the clients; I
> guess this is just more of the same.
>
> Just rambling here ... obviously an exciting New Year's Eve at our
> house (just waiting around until it's time to go pick up my teenage
> daughter from a party).
>
> ...Brenda