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Digital Access Pass Question. Wordpress vs Html

by craigc1980
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Hello everyone

I am having a design done on my wordpress installation with the Digital Access Plugin.

I basically want it to where i can use my wordpress as a squeeze page which the designer says he can do.

So whats your opinion on this.

Would it be better to use wordpress for the DAP system or should i use a regular html page.

I'm just asking because of the flexibility of the design.

Also if you have any suggestions to make this easier for me, that would be great.

Craig
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  • Profile picture of the author Alan Petersen
    I have four sites now using Wordpress and DAP for the members area o my preference is Wordpress. Optimize Press and DAP is a good combo that I'm using now.
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  • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
    To be honest I don't really get the "design flexibility" issue (and you can send your expert "designer" here to read this, LOL):
    there is nothing design-wise that you can not do in a WP theme as well as in a plain HTML/CSS site.

    If I am paid well enough, I can make a WP theme that looks exactly like any HTML site in the world. A reminder: the final output of WP is just html, nothing else...
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    • Profile picture of the author ravijayagopal
      Craig,

      Like Istvan said, there is really nothing that WP cannot do (that you can do with a plain HTML site).

      But on the flip side, I could tell you at least one thousand different things right off the top of my head - that WP *CAN* do, but a plain HTML site *CANNOT* do.

      It would be utterly wasteful (time, money, effort, programming, etc), inefficient and unproductive to publish and operate a plain HTML site in the day and age of WordPress and other CMS's.

      So save yourself tons of time and money and heartache, and just go with WordPress, whether it's just a simple "brochure" web site for your small business that has just 3 pages, or whether it's a complex membership site and blog with hundreds if not thousands of posts and pages and articles and video and audio and PDF etc, with DAP installed.

      Hope this helps.

      - Ravi Jayagopal

      Originally Posted by Istvan Horvath View Post

      To be honest I don't really get the "design flexibility" issue (and you can send your expert "designer" here to read this, LOL):
      there is nothing design-wise that you can not do in a WP theme as well as in a plain HTML/CSS site.

      If I am paid well enough, I can make a WP theme that looks exactly like any HTML site in the world. A reminder: the final output of WP is just html, nothing else...
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  • Profile picture of the author seasoned
    Basically, it is IMPOSSIBLE to control access via HTML. You would need SOMETHING on the back end. And the BEST way to control access is to store content in the bin area or a database. Why? Because HTTP(s) can NOT access it! It is IMPOSSIBLE!

    It can't do it through the database, because it WON'T even know how to CONNECT, much less read. And it can't do it through the bin area because that will force the HTTP system to access them as programs and, if it fails, which html will, it will return a 500 error. ALSO, the directory feature available in HTTP servers will NOT work in the bin area. So it is a black box!

    So HOW does it work? You use a PROGRAM that reads the content, and presents it as html. And WP is one such program.

    Steve
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    • Profile picture of the author craigc1980
      Thank You everyone for all your feedback.

      I am taking your advice and sticking with wordpress.

      I have a designer in the process as we speak.

      Thanks
      Craig
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