difference between WP and regular website

  • ok so I am new and confused….is the only difference between a WP blog site and any other webpage I have made the loop part. Becuase otherwise I am confused as to why someone with experience making webpages with html,css,php you would want to use WP. It almost seems to make things more confusing and I just dont really get with the difference is between a blog and a normal website. Please let me know if you have discovered that WP is easier in the long run or that it is just essentially another form of a wysiwyg for people that want to have a rotating or looping blog. Dont get me wrong I am no expert in webdesign so I am always looking for a way to make it quicker and easier…and if I stuck with a premade theme and just wanted to blog my thoughts then that would work…but I want a website that does a little more. Thanks for you thoughts

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    I started down the road of getting “pro” help on a simple website. It became very clear very early that they would be charging me a ton of money to set up what is basic in WP for free. I’m using WP as a very simple CMS, and have had to remove a lot of ‘stuff’ to get it down to bare bones. But that’s a far more efficient way of getting to where I wanted to go than building the equivalent from the ground up.

    @climbers246: Using WordPress depends on whom you are creating the website for in the first place and the business you, climbers246, are in plus so many other variables including technical skills of users and the like.

    If the site is for a client, it’s frankly the easiest way to transition admin duties to client or his/her tech person so they could “own” the site. They call for upgrades, updates, and other tech support. Based on feedback, WordPress and WPMU user interfaces are easier to understand and learning curve is lower compared to other CMS for small to medium business models.

    Content is king, and whichever platform will allow users to create content online with the least possible technical challenges is the one I’ll use to create the site. Some clients prefer Joomla, some Drupal and Typo3 and others prefer collaboration in Expression Engine and others Dreamweaver, there are pros and cons to all. No system is perfect but we try to reach the best possible match for all variables in the project.

    If the site is for your own use, then by all means, use whatever platform is easier for you ??

    If you already know XHTML and CSS, WordPress really helps with integrating a MySQL database, using PHP.

    WordPress gives you the PHP template tags (which call things like Title and Date and the text of a Post from your database), that you could put into any type of website layout / CSS design.

    So the difference is, WP helps create a dynamic and organized website. Just like any regular website except more database-like.

    create a dynamic and organized !
    for what … dummies or website builders
    Having 108 post and about 2000 tags and 350 categories the Plateforme seems to die …
    so what ?

    I sure like this Word Press but is this only to post 25 words phrase and 2 tags or can this be used to build a real site with huge lots of datas ?

    I’ve seen it asserted on these forums that The New York Times website uses WordPress, but I can’t find confirmation of that at the site. That would involve a lot of data.

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