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Wes Allen
Boulder climber
KY
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jul 3, 2009 - 06:22pm PT
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Just wanted to do a quick post to give some info about a kinda new trend with websites and to get a little bit of feedback on my new blogsite.
If you don't want to learn a lot of html, dreamweaver, etc or spend a lot of money on a website design, you should look into using wordpress as your website. With the last couple versions, and with some of the new plugin's, it isn't hard to run a full scale website off wordpress.
Couple of the advantages:
One of the best things, is that you separate the content from the tech stuff. So, anyone that can write an email or bbs post can add or edit content on a webpage - no problem
Free! (you just need a host that supports it, which almost all do)
Mostly wysiwyg editing once you have the basic setup going. You can still use html coding if you want though.
Edit content anywhere, from any modern browser. You can update your site anytime, without having a dedicated program. Want to make a quick change to your homepage - just fire up a browser, click a couple links, make some edits, and you are good to go.
Fast - wordpress is fast, with pretty tight code.
Standards based
Security is pretty good, as long as your host keeps up the code versions.
Easy to change the look. Since it is theme based, just change to a new theme (or part of your current theme) and your site has a totally new look. There are lots of free themes, and they aren't too hard to change around a bit (if you know a little css). Or you can buy templates.
Great for SEO
Great and easy to use plugin's for stats
Some drawbacks
To really tweak it out, you need to know CSS, HTML and PHP.
Without a lot of work, the sites can look a bit generic
Might not be real easy to add e-commerce features.
I am sure there are other pluses and minuses as well. But the big thing is that, even if you have to pay to have the site set up at first, you are in control of the content - no need to have someone make changes for you.
My new wordpress based site for our commercial / event photography:
http://www.radicalangles.com
All done with free software, free templates, etc. Didn't take a really long time to setup so far, and once the basics were done, adding the content pages was pretty easy. Still not done, and not happy with a few things, but I think it is better then the flash template and iweb sites I had before. Will be moving our Wedding photography site to something like this once I get the kinks worked out.
For more info and some better examples, google wordpress as cms or wordpress as website.
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Social climber
valley center, ca
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Yeah, it's pretty user friendly. I started one, but haven't done much with it. Wordpress is popular with many I know. lrl
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Jingy
Social climber
Flatland, Ca
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That's a really great gallery there... good work...
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Social climber
valley center, ca
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Thanks Jingy, don't think Wes posts that much and to let his good info go unnoticed .... nada good. lrl
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there wes, say... .great stuff... i checked out the climbing photos... i will come back and check out the nature ones, too...
thanks for the neat share... :)
edit---oops, forgot ... must mention, the details in the rocks are really good and clear....
very nice work...
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Wes Allen
Boulder climber
KY
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 6, 2009 - 05:57pm PT
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Hey, thanks much for the kind words for sure.
If you want a website, or if you have a traditional website, it can really be nice to move to a fully wordpress based site. With some tweeks, you can make it look pretty good, and it will look more like a website then just a blog. Really makes sense for small biz people - you can have a nice web presence for not very much $$$.
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
New York, NY
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I am trying to build a wordpress website... Maybe I am just not "getting it" but I'm finding a lot of frustration. To the point where I am avoiding even trying because it feels like I need to block a big chunk of time to get anywhere.
It might be that I keep expecting WP to be like Blogspot.
One thing - can anyone point to some good FREE theme sites? I chose one direct from WP but even though they had several choices, I think many sucked, to be honest. I sort of had a choice between only two that I thought weren't tacky.
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