We had been offering a simple website building product called Fido Sitebuilder since 2005 however we are phasing out Fido Sitebuilder as a product and to offer you a heavily discounted conversion from Fido to the industry-standard WordPress system.
When we chose to use Fido 6 years ago it was 'state of the art', but slowly over time it has became lacking in several areas some of which are listed below:
- The authors are not supporting it as much as necessary (in fact, not making new releases at all!)
- Its functionality is getting quite old and outdated
- Increasing security issues and regular site hacking, including hacking of many ecommerce sites using it
Because of these issues we have started to move our client base to the widely recognized and far more stable WordPress CMS (Content Management System).
WordPress has a customer base of well over 53 million (some estimate 200 million as realistic!), is much more powerful and has a considerably more intuitive and 'easy to use' user interface. When WordPress was developed, it was used mainly as a blogging platform, but over time it has evolved into a complete, powerful and easy to use content management system and can be used for so much more through the thousands of plugins, widgets, and themes.
Along with all this, WordPress has the advantage of being an Open Source project, which means there are many hundreds of developers all over the world working on it, extending it and customizing it – in fact, many more than most commercial platforms.) WordPress typically release small updates every 2-3 months which means you have access to a technology that is gradually evolving and continually improving. It also means you are free to use it for anything from your cat’s home page to a Fortune 500 web site without paying anyone a license fee.
Currently you are paying $100 a year for the Fido licence. With WordPress, there is a one off conversion fee (heavily discounted to $400) and no subsequent licence fees, which means you will be saving $100 per year by moving to the new system. Additionally, if you have paid your Fido licence in the last 3 months, we will credit your entire licence fee towards the site conversion.
As site conversions are done with such a huge discount, we hope you’ll understand that they are done on an as-time-permits basis; the turnaround is usually around 3 weeks but can be more. We supply a short "getting started" manual with the sites. One-on-one training or more detailed documentation is also available at additional cost.
If you would like to get started please either call us at 1300 760 850, or email us and we will send you information on how to get started.
Here is a link to articles about WordPress from our blog if you’d like to read up a little.