WP as a CMS for a newsletter site

Congratulations. I also found WordPress easy to use as a CMS on the non-blog portions of kolossus.com using the Pages functionality and the ability to slice up pieces of HTML into as many templates as I like.

I had a similar problem.

The birth of the Internet put a lot of my fellow music journalists out of business. But not me, because I made the leap into cyberspace and founded a Web site that I updated weekly. That worked out fine for nearly a decade–and then the blogosphere was born.

The immediacy of blogging forced me to update more often just to remain competitive, and with my now old-fashioned static pages, it quickly became a genuine problem. But I didn’t see joining the blogosphere as a solution because I saw it as more of a plaything than a potential business tool. So what if a blog platform would allow me to update in minutes, archive in seconds, and include video and audio? Besides, bloggers were all rank amaeteurs writing “personal” stuff, and I was a serious professional!

Fortunately, seeing the folly of my snobbery was as easy as remembering the music writers who resisted the Internet’s wind of change and got blown away. So last year I began looking into content management (though I referred to it as “bloggifying” my site.) Services like WordPress.com didn’t fit the bill because I have my own server and my own layout. But WordPress.ORG–bingo!!!

I’m “Dexter”-izing my site right now, but I’m looking forward to getting back to work–not that I consider being able to update on the fly and illustrate my stories with videos “work!”