Wordpress: A viable website template

[Ian001]

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I would be interested to know what other people think of this:

I'm about to start a new article based website and was wondering what people thought about using wordpress for this kind of thing? It's easy to set up and there are some decent templates available but do you think it might put a visitor off? It's just I don't know squat about databases etc so if I started completely from scratch the entire site would be hard coded.

What do you think?

Thanks

Ian

[Frostie]

I wondered the same thing about 1 month ago. I have since setup 2 completely new websites based on Wordpress and have additional widgets and gadgets plugged in such as RATINGS and EMAIL TO A FRIEND.

Far to early to say, as I am doing both on SEO only as a little experiment and haven't started link building yet. But as far as I can see, it should be relatively good as the permalinks could help build up a decent SEO Path to documents etc.

Give it a go. Can't hurt!

[Ian001]

Cheers Frostie.

Think I will then! Have you managed to find a particular template which is better for a website (as opposed to a blog)?

[lowndsy]

Website Baker is pretty good for simple sites - All SEO friendly, and only one plug-in is essential - the user_menu_2 one - everything else is just a bonus, and you can edit the templates in dreamweaver to get the exact site you want.

[srcudlipp]

Joomla & Mambo might be worth a look at. I'm just working on one in Joomla, with lots of articles, and it's been a simple setup.

[Frostie]

I looked at Joomla and its very comprehensive. For a simple post and forget site, a blog is more than enough - my Bingo site in my sig is based on Wordpress. If you want more out of your site, basically make it a community, then Joomla 100%

[Ian001]

Cheers everyone. It is going to be a pretty basic 'post and forget' site so I think I'll stick with wordpress for the time being

[Ian001]

Another quick question, what's better as a url:

Keyword-Keyword.com

or

KeywordKeyword.com

Cheers

[10k]

Well for short term seo across all engines imy opinion would be keyword-keyword but I have read lot recently about google differentiating words in urls such as mobileshop might rank for mobile shop and mobiles hop - I haven't seen any proof myself and there's really too many other factors to say conclusively.

For long term benefit though, I've always thought that urls formatted keyword-keyword.com look a little spammy. I would go for something that's memorable. If you are using wordpress you can amend the urls in the permalinks section to include keywords and there are lots of other seo mods you can use to