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Do html sites look better than wordpress sites?

by madison_avenue
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I have looked at lots of template and to me html sites look better as company sites than wordpress ones. Wordpress has the feel of a blog platform-which it is. Even using the "pages" option rather than "posts" a wordpress site still looks a but dull and generic.

I have seen some stunning looking html sites which are perfectly fit for purpose, I don't see that with wordpress, with wordpress I see functional site.

What do you think? are your clients more impressed if you show them a html designed site or a wordpress site? Which would you recommend?
#html #site #sites #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author arttse
    Why compare HTML with Wordpress only.

    Compare HTML with Joomla and then see the difference.

    Wordpress looks amateurish. I prefer HTML.
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    • Profile picture of the author madison_avenue
      Originally Posted by arttse View Post

      Why compare HTML with Wordpress only.

      Compare HTML with Joomla and then see the difference.

      Wordpress looks amateurish. I prefer HTML.

      I tend to agree a lot of wordpress sites do look amateurish and also a bit dull. It's because you can use it out of the box and there are a lot of free templates around.
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  • Profile picture of the author joomlawala
    Joomla site looks good than WP. If you choose joomla you will get the CMS+HTML looks as well. Let me know if you need Joomla/HTML site. Looking forward to hear with it from you on my email. Good day.
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  • Profile picture of the author phpbbxpert
    Kinda funny, I thought the same thing about Joomla every time I looked at it.
    To each his own I guess.

    Anyway, a WordPress theme can be coded how ever you want the site to look.
    There is nothing that says it needs to look like a blog.
    There are so many business sites out there with a WP front end that I can't even guess to put a number on it.

    It's all about custom and staying away from the free theme galleries.
    They are all about the blog usually.

    After all, they are all composed of the same thing, HTML and CSS.
    All the CMS does is allow adding of content dynamically.

    So any HTML design can be converted to WordPress or any other CMS and should not show through and look the same as it did as a HTML template.
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  • Profile picture of the author swtsubmit
    I can agree with phpbbxpert. Wp theme, doesnt have to look like blog, and joomla always looks like joomla Thats why I dont see how html site can look better then wordpress, cause wp can be customized that why, so you dont know what it is, and can look like regular html (except when you look in source).
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  • Profile picture of the author Geek3
    You have far more control to tweak things with HTML. With WP, it's always a challenge. Once you are satisfied with your HTML, you can always outsource someone to convert it to WordPress...
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  • Profile picture of the author Evan-M
    I strongly disagree

    if you know what your doing in wordpress, you can make it look however you want.

    wordpress is html ? and can look however you want, my site is a wordpress site ( website design firm in my signature) but it doesn't look like one.

    here is another wordpress site, im currently coding North Sydney Hotel - Hotel North Sydney - North Sydney Motel

    I could post a thousand examples, but im sure you get the point.

    wordpress, looks like crap, when people just use a generic wordpress theme, or for that matter no theme at all. The wordpress team, basically gave you the building blocks for a great site, and did the first 60% of the code if you fail on the other 40% , the site will not look right. but if you pull off the other 40% you can have a wordpress site, that looks nothing like wordpress.
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  • Profile picture of the author copypilot
    It's really how much work you put into it, wordpress has some nice themes that look good out of the box, but with HTML you can usually make something cleaner looking if you put your mind to it
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    • Profile picture of the author Evan-M
      Originally Posted by copypilot View Post

      It's really how much work you put into it, wordpress has some nice themes that look good out of the box, but with HTML you can usually make something cleaner looking if you put your mind to it
      you can take ANY html site, and put it into WordPress, doesn't matter what it looks like, or what scripts its running, within about 10 min, you can take any site and make it a WordPress theme. and when I say 10min, thats if your drinking coffee, and working with 1 hand, if your trying to go fast, you can literary do it in under 5
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      • Profile picture of the author copypilot
        Originally Posted by Evan-M View Post

        you can take ANY html site, and put it into WordPress, doesn't matter what it looks like, or what scripts its running, within about 10 min, you can take any site and make it a WordPress theme. and when I say 10min, thats if your drinking coffee, and working with 1 hand, if your trying to go fast, you can literary do it in under 5
        Not quite, certain complex effects can take time, particularly if the HTML site was not made to accommodate the blog format in the first place, but I believe he was referring to the fact that many WordPress sites have extraneous data on them i.e. comments, posts, etc. which make the design cluttered, in which case, clever theme design can mitigate this but not eliminate it, obviously.
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  • Profile picture of the author we_got_tops
    I'm with Evan-M for sure.

    Wordpress is simply a CMS interface for creating and publishing your content; it doesn't necessarily have anything at all to do with the design.

    The actual theme design is done using HTML, CSS and most importantly PHP, which includes all the blog loops, comments, etc. that makes it into the blogs we're familiar with.

    For the things copypilot was saying about cluttering the design, yeah, that definitely makes sense, but a good coder could easily disable comments, display a static page as the homepage and relegate the posts to a secondary place, for example.

    I think the question we're asking is more like "do professionally-made HTML/CSS designs look better than freely-available WP themes." This might be nitpicking, but I just wanted to make that distinction clear.
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    • Profile picture of the author Evan-M
      Originally Posted by we_got_tops View Post

      I'm with Evan-M for sure.

      Wordpress is simply a CMS interface for creating and publishing your content; it doesn't necessarily have anything at all to do with the design.

      The actual theme design is done using HTML, CSS and most importantly PHP, which includes all the blog loops, comments, etc. that makes it into the blogs we're familiar with.

      For the things copypilot was saying about cluttering the design, yeah, that definitely makes sense, but a good coder could easily disable comments, display a static page as the homepage and relegate the posts to a secondary place, for example.

      I think the question we're asking is more like "do professionally-made HTML/CSS designs look better than freely-available WP themes." This might be nitpicking, but I just wanted to make that distinction clear.

      Exactly its like comparing $2 a bag apples to $3/per Macintosh apples lol
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  • Profile picture of the author eagle1984
    Html and word press have not computation. we can create word press blog by using a software but HTML sites created himself. both have own benefit.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kezz
    You can't actually compare HTML to WordPress because of one fact:

    WordPress is a system for dynamic generation of HTML.

    Just view the source of any WordPress page and you'll see a whole stack of HTML.

    So it's not WordPress that makes a site look a certain way, it's the way it is set up through the theme.

    A good theme creator can make a company site impossible to recognize as being WordPress driven so the look is top notch but the client can update themselves without needing to touch any code.

    The bottom line is a great theme on a WordPress site will be look exactly the same as an HTML equivalent, it will just be easier to work with.
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  • Profile picture of the author kooldesigning
    HTML sites looks better than wordpress sites
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    • Profile picture of the author unlimitedmarketing
      It really depends if you are setting it up yourself, or getting someone to do it for you. If you set it up yourself and are looking for something easier to set up, wordpress is the easiest. That being said, you can technically find an html template and get someone from odesk or some other outsourcing place to re-design it for you, and make it look like you want.

      Also Why not use both? For example I have a website set up with html, and my BLOG button on my menu leads my users to my wordpress blog. The design on your blog should look like it fits the rest of the site, but I find this to be good, if someone is going to click on a BLOG button, they are set up to expect a "blog" interphase.

      If you know dreamweaver and feel comfortable setting it up on your own, you can try both of them and see which one seems easier.In the end it really doesn't matter which system you use as long as you have good content that converts visitors into buyers.
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  • Profile picture of the author DeadbutnotBorn
    word press can be best but html is the best for all who want a professional look
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