Using WP for non-blog site

I am getting ready to set up a customer’s website. I am going to use WP so that once it’s done, they can edit the pages themselves without me.

I played around with this on my own website first. Can someone tell me if this is the right approach?

I installed WP, and searched through all the Themes to find one that seemed very basic. I put it on the website, went to the Admin, and then the “presentations” > “theme editor”.

Then I found all the lines of code that correlated to the blog features, and just deleted them from the file.

It seemed to work but I’m wondering if this is the advised way to use WP for non-blog (content management) sites, or perhaps are there specific themes set up for this type of use?

Thanks
Gary