HTML5 is becoming the standard for web design. It is more dependent on using css to display pages. CSS works well with the structure of WordPress. Now if the browsers ever started displaying things the same it would become even more prevalent.
More and more people are using a blog structure as their website. I do for almost all of my sites.
With the changes over the last couple of updates to WordPress it has become very easy to use the software as a CMS (content management system) and display different types of pages in different formats. Some pages with a blog look, others with a website look.
No longer is it necessary to hack a theme to make them look similar. You can just set up custom pages and it is now easy to maintain the same look across the board because you are drawing the same theme across the board.
A variety of new themes have taken advantage of this and now it is point and click simple to change pages with the appropriate theme.
This way you can easily get the look of a website but maintain the advantages of a blog across your site.
So has the new question become why isn’t my website a blog?
What do you think? Leave your comment below.
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I’ve heard that you can change a WordPress blog into a website. How? please
Technically a blog is a website. Just one that uses a CMS (Content Management System) as a backbone. It would be the same thing if you were using Joomla, PHP Nuke or many other CMS solutions.
The key in making a blog look like a “website” is selecting the theme. The software already allows you to set a static home page. (Log in to your dashboard – click settings – reading and you will see the options for a static front page and can set it page to show singly.) All you would need to do would be find a theme that is limited.
By limited I mean with only one sidebar and that you set up the widgets on that sidebar to only include a few limited items like categories, links etc. so it looks like a website.
The other item would be to go into the code and remove the comments. Even if you turn off comments most themes will display a commnets closed display. This is only if you don’t want people to have any idea you are using WordPress.
The problem with that is you just closed off one of the most powerful features of a blog – user generated content.
There are also some paid themes that have already done this for you. Semiologic has one that is really easy to point and click your way to a website look.
Probably my big question would be why you would want to do this and limit what the blog can do for you?
I basically use blogs for most of my sites unless it is a sales site or lead generation site. Then I put up a 3 -6 page minisite that has only the one purpose. (Quite often if I have a blog attached – most of the time – I use the squeeze page to also send blog updates. If you use Aweber you can automate that.)
Hope that answers your question and as always your comments and questions are welcomed.
