Hi newbie44, yes WordPress is used extensively by bloggers, but it isn’t limited to just blogs. Many people, myself included, use WordPress as a content management system or CMS for many different types of websites.
If you need to change your website often, a tool like WordPress can be very helpful.
I would highly recommend taking WordPress for a spin, it is very user friendly and able to fill many roles.
The big thing to understand with WordPress, specially as a CMS, is the difference between Posts and Pages. Posts are smaller articles, the blog entries, and these are archives and organized chronologically.
And Pages static content that doesn’t generally move or change very often. For a standard website, you may use more Pages, or only Pages, and WordPress can be used just fine.
Though the Posts are very helpful too, I have built many business or non-profit websites without blogs that use the Posts as news entries.
Best of luck 44!
jleuze,
Thank you very much for the info. The web site I am attempting to build is a small business site for my wife and she wants a certain look to it and NO BLOG on it at all so I was concerned about even trying WordPress.
I am wondering if any sites you or anyone else out there have built are public sites, that I might take a look at for examples of non-blog sites, to show my wife.
Thanks again for the help,
newbie44
You can check out the WordPress.org Showcase page for many examples of non-blog sites.
Personally, I like WordPress more than any other platform. It is user friendly. Although I am one for the free stuff, like using Blogger’s platform at first, I’ve got to say that buying my own domain and hosting using WordPress’s platform was the smartest move I have made. The plugins are of great help.
