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Doodlebee,

Thanks for the response. I did a search on WP as CMS and found a number of interesting posts – some by you I think. You’re right, I need to stop reading everything as “for blogging”.

Dreamweaver is a program that writes HTML and creates static pages. WP is a program that creates dynamic pages on the fly.

Yeah, it was a bit of a stupid question I realize now that I have been studying it more. I gather that design is accomplished through CSS, since it is not HTML. I also assume that one simply takes a – what’s the term you use here, a Template or Style – and edit the CSS to change the design elements – images, background, etc. Is that right?

I would appreciate it if you would be kind enough to supply some links to websites you have done in this manner. That will help me to see the finished piece and I can look at your CSS to see how you have accomplished it.

Many thanks.

Hi All,

I’m completely new to WP, but I find it intriguing. I saw a site that I think was made using WP and I’d like to know more about how this is done.

First, I should say that I’m not interested in blogging, I’m really only interested in whether or not WP can act as a simple (or not so simple) CMS. I would like to create a website which has lots of images that need to be stored in a database, to be called up upon a search by a visitor. I don’t know how to connect a webpage to a database backend and I was wondering if WP might be able to perform this function? What’s not clear to me is if “blogging software” is just too specific to be used for my purposes. I mean, WP uses PHP/MySQL to run a blog, could it be used for what I want?

My host already has WP installed on my server so I have access to it already. I have spent much of the day looking at documentation on the website, but again, it is geared toward blogs not surprisingly.

One question I have is, why would someone create a website using WP instead of Dreamweaver? Is there any advantage to using WP to run the site – a site that does not have a blog? This is what made me think about using WP as a CMS. Any comments would be appreciated.