I”ve been asked on several occasions why I decided to use WordPress to build websites. Many people, myself included at one time, think of WordPress as a web log (blog). WordPress gained popularity as a blog and blogs are still the most popular use of WordPress but it has so much more capability. Especially when it’s combined with the Thesis theme.
I don’t like the blog look. Can it be made to look different than a blog? Yes it can. The default theme for WordPress IS rather ugly and has that blog look:
But when you have a good theme and someone who has the skills WordPress can be made to look like a normal website and not a blog. The 7th Pixel website (what you’re looking at right now) is an example. There are several other examples in my portfolio.
But why use WordPress instead of Joomla, Drupal, or other CMS? Because WordPress has an intuitive admin interface that’s easy to use, efficient and flexible. WordPress is also one of the oldest and has one of the best support communities of any freely available software package.
But you can’t assign sidebar content to specific pages or posts. Oh yes you can. See Hunger Mountain – the VCFA journal of the arts. There are 3 side bar templates in use. One is a default that uses the standard widgets offered by WordPress. The second and third are assigned to different two different types of content. VCFA can not only create content for the side bars but they can mix and match different graphics to suit in the right-hand sidebar.
So when it comes time for a redesign of your website, or even if you want to give the old one the functionality of a CMS, you would do well to consider using WordPress! Don’t get fooled by the blog origin. In the right hands WordPress is a fabulous CMS.
And if you’re looking for a Vermont website designer to do the work – well…
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