I built my wordpress site, or better to say - am trying to build it. I've begun to hate wordpress with its damn pluging and media library. I try to create a website, not a blog. But i actually have a hermaphrodite site-blog at all. I’m thinking to leave wordpress and design a common html website without wordpess stuff. On the other hand, it seems stupid to come back to html. Does somebody still build sites in html?
Ahhh hey dude HTML is still one of the core factor of internet so yeah we all use HTML but not alone.We use HTML with CSS,FLASH and Java Script.mmm even If you don't know Flash and Java script try to learn CSS with HTML it will help you to create some great websites.I also started my web life using a blog just like you.I also thought HTML is damn.But today I am a PHP developer so never let is pass try to learn it.Then it'll help you to be happy. Regards.
mmm ya you can rewrite WordPress design using HTML sure.But functions it has may not be there.And also you may have to create page by page for your content.But if you use a dynamic language like PHP you can create it with more ease.
I think what you mean is dynamic pages and static pages. At the end even WP renders to HTML, as every website does. I think you should Google for CMS, maybe lightweight CMS... I do static pages most of the time (if the content does not change). If you are not familiar with HTML or a lazy dude, use a CMS... tons of free CMS out there
An easy CMS system is CMS Made Simple. I've used it for a few sites, very easy to understand. Personally I prefer Wordpress though, once you get to know it, there really no limit as to what you can use it for. Wordpress also works good as a CMS system in my opinion.
Just be careful. I have a couple massive html static websites, and it would take me a LONNNNG time to convert them to a dynamic CMS like wordpress. It's too hard to update everything because I'd have to open up and edit hundreds of pages, one at a time. With Wordpress, you can change something in the header, sidebars, or footer on the fly, and it updates all pages of your site at the same time. It really just depends on how big you plan for your site to grow, and what it's main focus is.
It depends on how big your site will go or how you expect it to go. If you are looking at 20-25 pages max you could get away with static HTML. If you need to make any changes you can do a find and replace on all pages. If you expect it to me more than 25 then a CMS might be a better option. If you are building your own theme then I always find it easier to build the site in a static format first and then put in the WP variables last.
Thanks for the answers guy. Think i won't leave WP now. I've already had a 42 page's site, and it'll grow to 200 pages this years. On the other hand, i still think a static website with pages.html more stable. Probable, i'm wrong.
To be honest I use WordPress to design a lot of websites, as many other development companies do. Some prefer other cms programs like Joomla etc. Pretty much what is being done is rather than using the blogging features for say using the dynamic development engine in order to be able to create the same look and feel on every page without having to rewrite or load the entire code every time a page loads. WordPress is extremely dynamic in the amount of control that you can have when using it to create a website, you can also make different theme pages where all you have to do is to cut and paste text into a post, tell it what page to use and the page is done, you can tell it whether to display the plugin area or not to, etc so it can be used to make a development project very easy once the initial design is done, and the continued updating easy as well... http://codex.wordpress.org/Blog_Design_and_Layout a lot of information and help can be found here on how to get a little creative or how to side step certain things in order to get wordpress to function the way you are needing it to. Hope this helps......