Building a new site and need some advice

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I am thinking a of building a new website. In the past I have only built sites using wordpress. This particular site I am thinking of is going to be really large and have alot of products and info on it. Is wordpress a good choice to install on my hosting? If not, then what other options do I have?
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike Hlatky
    Wordpress is always a good choice, especially for a large site.

    Here are a few other CMS you can consider:

    www.joomla.org/


    drupal.org/


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  • Profile picture of the author mkonate
    I need help too to build a list my friend. Can you share some information with me?
    Thank you, Hope to hear from you soon.
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  • Profile picture of the author Zimmerp
    I am only using one - page websites - but could easily make them bigger.

    Great instruction and free hosting is available to members at Chris Farrell's site.

    You can upload as many sites as you want - so it works out pretty well.

    Might be worth checking it out.
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    • Profile picture of the author Michael Shook
      If you have th opportunity to ask them, it migh tbe worth your time to talk with your hosting tech support people before you install a CMS other than Wp, Joomla or Drupal.

      Some hosts offer one click installs of other CMS's and those might work for you too.

      In the long run though, you will probably be more satisfied with a CMS that has been around the block a few times and one that other people have heard of and are comfortable working with. In case sometime down the road you want to sell your site.
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  • Profile picture of the author Caragui
    Wordpress would be a platform to use if you're thinking of building a big site. Makes the work of internal linking, etc much easier unlike if you use HTML.
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  • Profile picture of the author Frake
    Wordpress is a good choice, very user-friendly and highly capable of hosting large sites. Although I would slowly start learning some HTML, dreamweaver etc. if you really want to 'feel in control' of the whole system.
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  • Profile picture of the author Blue_Monk
    G'Day.
    Yes if your site is going to be large.... use wordpress. The main reason you will find why, is when it comes to your categories, and depending how many you may have.... it's all going to be just one click to update with all your pages and posts already completed. Themes like Thesis and Socrates as well as StudioPress themes are great.
    Good luck with your choice.
    Shane
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  • Profile picture of the author pajach
    It depends on your skill set. If you are familiar with HTML, CSS, and a little perl or PHP, then forget about wordpress. Wordpress is really convenient, but the problem is that most wordpress sites look the same. If you want your site to look custom, you need to do the coding yourself or pay someone else to do it.

    On the other hand, if you know nothing about coding, don't want to learn, and are broke, then wordpress is great.

    It all depends on what you can do and what you need.
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  • Profile picture of the author JoshuaZamora
    I love wordpress! It's very user friendly. If you've used it before I say stick to what you know
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  • Profile picture of the author Markus Mar
    Wordpress should be good enough for a large site,
    this website here is built using Wordpress:

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