Using WordPress as a Basic Web Designer

  • matthewschenker

    (@matthewschenker)


    17 years ago

    Hello,
    Allow me to briefly introduce myself. I’m a freelance writer, brand-new to the WordPress community. At this point, my Web site is just getting developed, but it is initially to be used as a place to house PDF versions of my published articles. As time goes on, I want to develop a simple gallery, and a forum (probably using SMF). There might be other features in the future, but it will be very simple.

    I have looked at various tools, such as Joomla, and they seem like overkill for the kind of site I am creating.

    Will WordPress do what I need it to do? I don’t think of my site as a “blog,” so I worry WordPress is not the right tool. But then again, maybe I’m being too strict about what a “blog” has to look like!

    Anyway, I’d love to hear opinions.

    Thanks,
    Matthew

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  • Rodeo Imagination

    (@shiroujune)

    17 years ago

    Mhhhh… I can say “yes”. I’ve worked a bit with wordpress even to install portals, and I see the tool very friendly to work with, and if you manage it properly it can turn out in anything you want, from a blog, to an structured site, I am developing my own site which isn’t a blog, but a site with content, separating things like news, updates, and content itself. But the blog soul that WP has, let you have a nice archive and organized categories to separate and show the content you want.

    And it has tons of plugins of easy installation.
    With a plugin you can also make up an easy gallery from the images you upload in the administrator panel, or go beyong and install something like Gallery2 and make it work with wordpress. Though it turns a bit complicated sometimes.

    But if your gallery is gonna be small, I’d recommend you to use a simple plugin for the images uploaded at wordpress.

    I hope this helps! Regards,

    ~June

    hdiaz

    (@hdiaz)

    17 years ago

    Hi Matthew,
    I use WordPress as a web administrater, it does deliver. I love it, probably you will too. You need know exactly what you want to do with it.

    Henry

    ps.: see these common sites, they’re run with WP. granadagazette.com hoodrivervineyards.us wordpress.org

    Doodlebee

    (@doodlebee)

    17 years ago

    I can go with these guys – I’m a web designer and I’ve set up *tons* of clients with WordPress – and none of them use it as a blog. I’m working on my most complicated site right now – uses WordPress, ZenCart *and* the Gallery2 plugin (although for a smaller gallery, the lazygallery plugin is pretty cool).

    But yes, it can be used as a CMS just as well as a blog.

    Thread Starter matthewschenker

    (@matthewschenker)

    17 years ago

    Thanks everyone for your thoughtful replies!

    I can tell already that WordPress attracts a creative crowd. That’s rather intangible, but it does help me as I consider which Web-design tool fits with the kind of work I do. As a writer, I’m focused more on content than technicalities (although I’m not too shabby with the latter).

    Looking forward to joining the WordPress community.

    Thanks again,
    Matthew

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