Are you aware that the features making Wordpress so popular for bloggers actually may be quite useful as a CMS for anyone building a website? Actually Wordpress is silently serving a lot of websites that have nothing to do with blogging at all and I think the number will be growing dramatically in the near future.
Regardless if you’re a passionate blogger writing about subjects you’re interested in or if you have a company selling services or products, publishing content on-line is all about interaction with other people. The blogging tsunami that have hit us over the last couple of years has significantly changed the way a lot of people seek and publish information on-line and more importantly how people interact and share opinions and ideas. Information can be produced by anyone and people have used this opportunity! There are millions of bloggers today and their busy lifestyle demands good tools for publishing; it must be easy, simple, fast, accessible and make it easy for their reader to contribute and communicate. Wordpress is the tools and it offers everything a blogger needs and more and then it is completely free and so is thousands of extensions and themes produced by the enormous community supporting Wordpress. Further Wordpress is know to be highly optimized for search engines and may make a difference in the amount of traffic you get from this channel.
One of the main reasons I would highly recommend considering Wordpress for building traditional non-blog websites is that it has been build from scratch with the purpose of making content publishing easy and it’s popularity / dominance in the blogging sphere is proof that it has succeeded. Wordpress is also excellent for boosting interaction with readers/customers and other companies and blogs that write about your organisation. When it comes to look and feel and being able to design a professional and appealing website Wordpress is also superior. First of all there are thousands of free and premium themes available out there. OK most of the Wordpress themes are not directly aimed at traditional websites but typically it is quite simple to redesign a blogging theme into a non-blogging version. Also if you’re not up for the challenge yourself the Wordpress community is huge and there is plenty of help to get at reasonable prizes. Lets look at some examples of non blogging websites powered by wordpress. Drop a comment if you are aware of a website that I should add!
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The Websites powered by Wordpress
frameworx
studiopress
digobrands
Archer Group
bildedoktor
buddypress
Creative Spaces
cubicleninjas
knowledgescreen
Samsung Newsroom
intridea
comfyrene
Radium Labs
Network Solutions
pxforce
quasarsoft
Spotify
Executive Warfare
Fergus Neilson
Verio
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November 9th, 2009 at 2:34 am
I have recently dove two feet into learning word-press and how to create custom themes.
And whenever I dive into new technology I often wonder if I made the right choice being, that its alot of time and effort learning how to integrate my design process within the perimeters of the technology.
And I am also concerned with making sure I have complete creative control pixel by pixel. and my current journey is proving that I made the right choice, and these examples definitely showcase how awesome the technology can look.
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Thanks and Regards
Noel for Nopun.com
a graphic design studio
November 9th, 2009 at 3:11 am
awesome post. I have discovered for myself just how flexible WP is, as a hosting platform for your website. you literally have everything you need to publish a website at your fingertips, through WordPress. thanks.
November 9th, 2009 at 8:20 am
really professional examples of WP based websites. thanks
November 9th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Nice examples
November 9th, 2009 at 11:31 pm
This is very interesting. Thanks for the information
November 10th, 2009 at 8:16 am
Should there be another persuasive post you can share next time, I’ll be surely waiting for it. Thanks.
November 10th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
Thanks so much for sharing these sharp websites. WordPress makes designing so easy.
November 10th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
Hi There,
Thanks for featuring http://www.knowledgescreen.com – I was delighted to see you folks picked up on our fledgling company. I commissioned the site from Justin Marcus Design http://www.justinmarcusdesign.com/ who did a nice job of coming up with visual concept and implemetning it on wordpress.
Happy CMSing
Mark
November 10th, 2009 at 6:58 pm
Great to see people bigging up wordpress as a CMS. I’ve been using it as a CMS for all my flash sites recently:
http://www.michaelpricemusic.com
http://www.bobcooper.org.uk
Only just feel like I am scraping the surface with this, I’m loving that just because it’s wordpress doesn’t mean it has to be a boring scroll up and down blog.
Bob
November 10th, 2009 at 9:28 pm
Here’s another one: http://www.kernme.org
It’s not up to snuff with the rest of the sites posted here (which are awesome), but it’s not bad for a solo student designer.
November 11th, 2009 at 6:53 am
Thanks for the sharing really usefull. I would like to bookmark this site.
November 11th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
I do agree with all the ideas you have presented in your post. They are very convincing and will definitely work. Thanks for the post.
November 11th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
Thank you very much. Good examples.
November 11th, 2009 at 8:51 pm
Nice list of websites! I’d love to see a mix of WordPress design and the CSS ZenGarden concept… Seems that the function is pretty much built in…
November 13th, 2009 at 6:08 am
directly aimed at traditional websites but typically it is quite simple to redesign
November 13th, 2009 at 7:04 am
What theme is the Frameworx site using? Its really nice, simple and clean.
November 13th, 2009 at 7:51 am
Not sure but you may try to contact them and ask the question directly. They have email and form as contact options in their site.
November 13th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
Very nice Wordpress sites indeed!
November 14th, 2009 at 7:36 am
VERY GOOD
November 15th, 2009 at 8:53 pm
that’s Good, remarkable websites ..! some thing interesting topic..!
November 19th, 2009 at 7:43 pm
ty dude
November 22nd, 2009 at 1:23 am
Came across your site and thanks for the list of some awesome wordpress themes.
I love using wordpress and there are some great ideas here.
Many thanks
George
November 25th, 2009 at 10:03 pm
Hi really professional examples of WP based websites. thanks Fraz
December 5th, 2009 at 6:56 am
Very impressive in my opinion. Keep it up. You seem busy, I think.
December 7th, 2009 at 6:14 pm
nice.. a few good ideas and layouts here. Good post – thanks.
December 7th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
@johny; Thanks for the feedback! Yep it is interesting to see how Wordpress can be used for other purposes than just Blogging and some of them are pretty good.
December 20th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
i thought its expensive design
December 20th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
good design…hmm..but maybe its expensive
December 21st, 2009 at 5:01 pm
Hi,
Very nice wordpress web sites. Wordpress is perfect and excellent CMS. For example: http://www.otomasyon.us/
December 23rd, 2009 at 11:22 am
Thank You Tripwire Skins ;& Template Perfect
December 28th, 2009 at 8:28 am
i knew it..wordpress is the best and easy theme design