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Anyone own a website that isn't just wordpress?

by Soton
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Hello, have been on these forums for a week or so now and everything I have read is people downloading Wordpress and making a blog.

Just wondering if anyone has there own success stories of a custom website they have built?

I'm currently building my own cms multi user blogging system as such, I have a unique way of selling banner that isn't just 6 squares to the right.

I have all the plans laid out and nearly finished building my site from scratch but would love to hear anyone's success stories and how they monetised them with what results.

Not from Wordpress blogs with some plugins, but unique idea websites that aren't blogs / affiliate sites.

Thanks
#website #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author imrankhang
    WordPress is a nice CMS with multiple options. People love it, because no expertise is needed.
    The main thing is not the development of website, but it is traffic you got.
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  • Profile picture of the author joaquin112
    If you can create your own custom HTML, PHP and CSS website, then go for it. Everyone uses WordPress nowadays. In business it's very often a good idea to go against the pack.
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  • Profile picture of the author misshang
    Hi, I have purchased some sites that are that wordpress, and I regret buying them. it's very time consuming to maintain the site, not to mentioned when you just want to add a new page, it's lots of work compared with wordpress sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author JRJWrites
    Used to do one with Weebly, but abandoned it as soon as I found WordPress.
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    • Profile picture of the author OnlineStoreHelp
      I run a variety of sites on platforms besides wordpress. Most of my informational sites are on wordpress but I have been playing around with Drupal more and more. Outside of information, I run commerce sites on a variety of platforms including Shopify, Bigcommerce, Americommerce, open cart, prestashop and a couple other custom platforms.

      From an information site perspective, it is hard to beat the existing CMS's. Most people, Wordpress is the way to go. Some use Joomla (I hate it) and Drupal is what a lot of government sites use (whitehouse.gov) since it so powerful. I have been playing around more and more with Drupal. I am tempted to try some of the Rails CMS's but frankly, for most of us, if its not in scriptaculous, fantastico or simple scripts, we just don't have the desire or experience to play with trying to do a manual install.
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    • Profile picture of the author Master Revan
      I use custom sites almost exclusively, either from scratch or css template sites that I edit to my liking. Wordpress is great too. It really doesn't make any difference what format you use as it is the traffic that makes the difference. I made plenty of money off a blogger site that didn't even have a custom domain.
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    • Profile picture of the author Rob Aseto
      Wordpress is a great platform to use, because it gives you a great foundation to quickly build a site and start adding content. Just because a site is created in Wordpress, does not mean that the website can't be completely customized to look any way you want.

      With some basic knowledge of HTML and CSS you can essentially make the site look however you want. Wordpress just allows you to take advantage of the simplicity of quickly adding new content (pages, posts, media, etc.).
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      • Profile picture of the author savidge4
        I program all my own stuff. its the "Secret" shhh to my SEO success hahaha. I use Frontpage express to ensure what I did in my head looks good, and now I'm working with html5 and CSS and use Netobject Fusion to make sure everything is coming together correctly. I am finding CSS in Html5 does some weird stuff sometimes.

        I am actually running a "Test" right now. I have 2 sites targeted at the same keywords. One is old style html and the other is html5 with CSS. I am curious if there is an advantage either way. My money is on the old html version. About 2 - 3 more weeks and Ill know for sure! should be interesting.

        I must say though, that working with html5 and CSS makes for a much prettier site! I'd rather have SEO performance over pretty though.
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  • Profile picture of the author Soton
    Don't get me wrong I'm not knocking Wordpress, I have a few wp sites and it's very powerful.

    Just wondered if anyone did anything other than information sites etc, so making the next twitter or video sharing site etc
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  • Profile picture of the author seobro
    I use straight HTML for most of my web pages. Word press is easy. However, it is a resource pig. MYSQL databases can be a big drag on a hosting company scarce resources. Expect to get kicked out if you cause em pain. That is what happen when you have a traffic spike after being mentioned in the social arena. Then your web site is turned off and you are up the creek in more ways an one. Plain HTML is easy on servers.
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  • Profile picture of the author koreancowboy
    I have used/use now:

    Wordpress
    Drupal
    tumblr
    Blogger
    Xanga
    vBulletin (forum)
    Xenforo (forum)

    I prefer Wordpress because of how easy it is to use, and how much you can do with it. There's a new CMS (sort of) out there called Ghost, and it's supposed to be strictly for blogging. I might check it out.
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  • Profile picture of the author jaihyppo
    I simply use a simple HTML pages and it works tremendously well. It all depends on what your website goal.

    If you are planning to create content after content, yeah, wordpress works best.

    If you just want to create a simple squeeze page to collect list, a simple HTML page would be fine. I'm using this strategy and I don't have to worry about plugins, updates and such. In fact, I totally have control of my page and I simply love it.
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  • Profile picture of the author vishwa
    There is no such alternatives for Wordpress. It is easy to use and manage. you even don't nee any coding experience. It is really a Good solution for newbies who just want to start blogging.
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  • Profile picture of the author PrimeChau
    Does anybody use squeeze pages on blogs or is it 1 squeeze page per domain?
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  • Profile picture of the author Adie
    I have a plain html site - a landing page, but most are wordpress. You can have everything in wp.
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    • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
      I've migrated most of my sites to WP or disposed of them. Larger sites, or sites that will continue to grow, are more practical with some form of CMS, and I've already climbed the learning curve for WP.

      I do use options besides plugins for adding functionality whenever possible. If I can do something simple by adding a few lines of code to a template, I'll do it instead of loading a plugin. I also will use CGI scripts for some things that live outside the actual delivery of content (like form handling, surveys, etc.).

      The fewer things I have to worry about updating and maintaining, the better, especially if I have to rely on some anonymous third party to keep up to date with new versions, etc.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sardent
    I really like the moduler dragndrop sitebuilders, such as Weebly.
    But they get expensive real quick for a lot of sites. Weebly just changed over to a new pricing structure not too long ago. Went from 10 sites for about about $0.90 a month per site, to $8 a month (depends on how big a chunk of time you buy at once) per site.

    But you can't beat the price, or flexibility of WordPress. I converted. Unwillingly. But I converted.
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