Migrated Complete Website To WordPress
While I was helping my brother with his websites and blogs, I reviewed my own main website (which had not had anything done on it for some time) and blog.
My conclusion was that it would be good to have everything running from one platform as there are a number of obvious benefits to that:
- Consistent look and feel
- One software platform to use and be familiar with
Basically - look better and be more up-to-date with less work!
So… what to use? One of the number of template based website content maintenance programs like - iWeb, RapidWeaver, Sandvox. One of the more expensive CMS tools like DreamWeaver?
Problem was they all had something going against them - iWeb’s crazy auto-generated URLs (permalinks not!), RapidWeaver and Sandvox’s lack of depth when it came to blog support (which after all was where most writing was going to be done), and DreamWeaver’s cost and complexity.
What to do? Use two new features in WordPress - pages (which exist independently of the blog cycle); and the option to set any page as the ‘front page’ of your website - and just use WordPress for everything!
So I did!
