Wordpress as CMS
I’m thinking about moving my student discount website to wordpress (currently 100% hard coded html). I’ve heard quite a few people talk about using wordpress for their main sites as a content management system and it seems to perform pretty well, the examples I’ve seen look dead good. Plus the fact it’s so easy to install and there are loads and loads and loads of wicked plugins for virtually everything you could ever want! I did consider Joomla but I don’t know that much about it, plus it’s got a lot of features that I don’t really need. I’ve also been thinking that if I make it more ‘blog like’ I’ll be able to get listed in blog directories too, which would be handy.
I’ve sort of neglected the site recently (have been considering selling it) and it needs a lot of work, so I figured now would be a good time to overhaul the whole thing. It’s been ticking over and making money, but traffic is starting to go down so I’ve decided now I really need to get cracking!
Good call, I’ve been considering doing that with my business site.
Joomla is nice, but it is pretty complicated and has too much functionalities perhaps… It is a lot easier to use Wordpress.
I don’t think there’s any flaws or problems with your plan - it’s just a matter of doing it, which I haven’t been able to haha.
[…] Damn. I’ve got a lot of stuff to do over the next few days. I’m basically redesigning my entire student site, it’s currently in a table based layout (I know, I should be using CSS but it was my first site which I started before I knew anything about websites). Anyway I’ve decided to make it more blog like so this does obviously save me having to actually make the design itself - I’m going to use a pretty cool design I came across on Jon Waras’ blog. […]