WP Blog vs Regular Site?

I've never created a regular website and I wouldn't know how to do it, which is why I went for WordPress which is extremely easy to use even if you have little to no experience with building websites.

I prefer to use Blogs because i find that wordpess is very easy to use and very flexible, no matter what marketing campaign i want to do, wordpress can suppor my needs.

Also, i must admit my sites were usually ugly and they never had much success, but since i swapped to wordpress i have nice looking sites that yield results.

Yeah, I typically use wordpress just because there really isn't a learning curve there. With some of the other ways of doing it, there is amuch more of a learning curve.

I use Wordpress, B2E, Joomla, Dreamweaver and MS Frontpage. They all have their advantages. It doesn't get any easier than Wordpress though.

Google loves blogs for its updated material. It's also easy to post new content quickly.

Wordpress Rocks! I used to use other tools to make websites but don't anymore. You can make wordpress look like a regular site if you really want to but what's the point? The ease of adding content along with Google loving the structure, you just can't beat it .

I'd vote for a blog, a website is static and making changes to it can be pretty tedious, unless you're from a large company. But its blogs that dominate the internet these days.

WP definitely. Ease of use is through the roof, and blogging software is more SEO friendly for rankings.

Also, the SEO friendly plug-ins and themes are too good to pass up.

Wordpress all the way.

A blog is content central. It easier to manage and frequently update your blog. Overall there's more functionality.

Ryan Biddulph

Please define what you mean by "regular site." Wordpress is not that much different from joomla, drupal, cms made simple, dragon fly,,,,, or any of the other content mangement systems out there.

One of the main differences is "how" the information is presented. Like with joomla - you have the current article at the top, then it breaks into a 2 column layout with the content. Some joomla templates have a built in rating system, and you can see how many times an article has been read - why doesn't wordpress have that?

Personally, I do not like how wordpress presents its content - and that is with a main column.

Take a look at yahoo news and the bbc news - if wordpress looked more like that, then it would really rock.

The wordpress backend is great - but the template system leaves a lot to be desired. Wordpress needs built in article tracking (without a plug-in), article rating, and ways to display links to popular articles at the top of the site.

Wordpress needs more options on how the information is presented to the reader.

I have some of each, but overall prefer blogging software as a CMS (not WordPress, though).

Alexa

What blogging software do you use as a CMS? If not Wordpress - why not?
Purely interested out of curiousity.

If you don't have time to answer I totally understand.



Paul

I use Wordpress no matter if it is a regular site or a blog.

Wordpress doesn't always have to be used for a blog.

Wordpress is great ... Until a bunch of your blogs get hacked and you have to spend 3 days making them all better.

I like that it is easy to use and there are a lot of cool plugins that you can't get with a handmade site, but on the other hand I like making my own sites that load a lot faster and are easier to get back up and running if anything happens to them.

I guess it really depends - if you are going to actually "blog" and post a new article every day then you'd want some sort of CMS definitely.

I like to use WordPress, with all the great SEO plugins it has, and easy to use interface.

I had my sites as html for the longest time. It was such a hassle to update things, add things, etc. I spent more time screwing around on pages, lining things up, making things look right at all resolutions, etc. Not to mention my wife is a Graphic Designer and I would drive her bananas with updates, new ideas, etc. Every time of course it had to fit those pages, etc.

Switched over to Wordpress for my 2 main sites and can not be any happier. Many of the plug-ins are things that on an html site are just a complete chore!! Plug-ins like TubePress for someone like me who makes video shorts is an invaluable way to present my media without getting stuck making updates to each individual video page. I make some settings changes and it sweeps across the site like the Bat-signal and everything is updated a few seconds later. I'm able to have comments where I want them, use SEO tools to help speed up the process of optimization, and more. Personally it was for me the best thing I've done.

Now if only I had more time to update more than I do!!!

No one should ever ever ever work with regular HTML sites again....

Why do you say that?

It really depends on what you want to do with it. Wordpress sites are obviously very easy to design and there are so many plugins and themes a rookie can make a great looking site very easily. However, Wordpress does not work for every kind of site.

I like WP sites