Using WordPress for sites
May 3, 2006 – 12:11 am
Since Dave introduced me to WordPress, I've been a fan. The more I use it, the more I set up the software for either blogs, running complete sites or additions to business sites, the more I learn and the more I like. I've seen how well WordPress sites fare in the search engines too. The spiders love the set up of WP, it can find all of the pages easily and tends not to find dead links as your site is dynamically set so human error does not usually come into it (besides your own links in posts or link lists).
I'm currently setting up two new sites using WordPress. One is obviously using WordPress, allowing comments and has the typical WordPress look, the other has one page per category, using the category structure as a typical web site menu. How well these sites will fare compared to hand built sites I don't know but I'm hoping they'll get indexed and ranked quicker. Both are using .net domains hosted on UK servers to maximise visitors.
The beauty of using WP is that there are plenty of themes available, free to use. One site I'm working on is to do with a subject I can easily write my own articles for as it's a major passion of mine. Within minutes of browsing the Free Themes section, I found two designs that would suit my site. Of course the downside to use other people's themes are that they're not essentially always perfect for you. Even though the design is quick to add and you can usually find one that does what you need, the markup may not be. However it's usually not too hard to run through and alter the markup to suit.
I hope to launch my first new site once I'm back from my holiday. I just need to ensure there's enough content to make it worthwhile and not seem half finished.
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