Love WordPress but not sure it’s for me???

  • campkatan

    (@campkatan)


    14 years, 10 months ago

    The host recommended WordPress, but I opted for joomla (sp?). What a dumb maneuver…having fussed around for several days…driving me NUTS!! Then I called the host back and they helped me to apply WordPress and **WHAT** a relief!

    This is great, because I can download (FREE) themes until the cows come home. But seems to me this is a blogger type thing right??

    My 10-year-old got together with friends for the summer and decided on building a camp for 5-6 year olds. Well, 3-4 members later and they are in business. Mom and dad will have to fund the scholarships and supplies and hopefully everyone will have a worthwhile and fun experience. So here is what I was hoping for (once again this is strictly for fun):

    The site needs pages that can show the counselors and their qualifications. If should be a theme that’s playful and fun. We should be able to upload PDF flyers for membership applications and future schedules, and pictures to show all the fun times. MOV or MPEG files would be great if easy enough.

    Something tells me that WordPress is more for bloggers…and I’m not that savvy with building websites to know the difference. Am I doing the right thing choosing WordPress or is there something better out there?

    Thanks for my kids sake and for my sanity!! :–/

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  • @mercime

    (@mercime)

    14 years, 10 months ago

    WordPress is used as CMS in many cases – check out WordPress showcase
    http://wordpress.org/showcase/ – choose from among the tags at the left.

    There are Posts (for the blog) and Pages (for the counselors and qual.). As for the theme, something as simple like this – http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/gold-pot-theme where you can add some colors or http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/watercolor where you just change background image

    Thread Starter campkatan

    (@campkatan)

    14 years, 10 months ago

    Thanks for the help…and **SO** badly needed in our case. I looked quickly at your recommendations and have to say there are some things there that look excellent. I cannot wait till there is more time (kids asleep) to look into this further.

    OFF-TOPIC
    Your reply was “9-hours ago”, we were depressed for the lack of response and thought no one cared until logging on to the forum to find you :–). A ray of sunshine!! Is there a way to receive notices via personal emails when someone replies? –Thank you again

    @mercime

    (@mercime)

    14 years, 10 months ago

    Is there a way to receive notices via personal emails when someone replies?

    Hello campkatan, notices via email not available at this time. Also, it’s not that no one cares, almost all who help out in here are volunteers from around the world who log in at different times of the day – some hourly, some daily, weekly, monthly or rarely. I just happened to click on the “Miscellaneous” topics and found your question. Might I suggest next time you post this in “How To and Troubleshooting”. Btw, if all fails, google is your friend 🙂 Best wishes

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