During my last year at the “upper secondary school”/college/gymnasium, we had the chance to try out starting my own web development company with safety nets included. One of the customers we (me and my friend) had back then was an independent school in Niemisel, Sweden. Since then, this is still one of my favorite outcomes and a design I can actually say I’m proud of.
At first the website was created with a custom-made CMS, including news posts, gallery functionality, contact forms, file uploads… frankly, you know the deal. While this was good, it wasn’t all that maintainable as I didn’t really have a plan for updates, but it went well for a while. However, seeing that I had less and less time to write code and had to put down more hours on my university studies, I started looking at WordPress.
Somewhere between one and two years after the initial launch of the website we decided to throw out the custom CMS and utilize the power of WordPress instead and the rest is history. WordPress, being a great platform to build upon, provided them with the ease of access as well as maintainability. In other words, WordPress made a great web site even greater!