If you are new to building websites you should know that there are a ton of services and software packages out their to help you build a site or blog. Joomla and WordPress are two of my favorites. Their both free, and both are fairly easy to use. Joomla is commonly used for sites, and WordPress is commonly used for blogs.
WordPress is Not Just for Blogs
A common disbelief though is that WordPress is only for blogs. Well you can build a website with WordPress, and you can have as many pages as you want, just don’t expect a content management system (CMS) to manage it as if you were using Joomla. WordPress is great for creating quick information sites like this Power Juicer Review site. It’s easy to change your templates, new pages get automatically added to your menu, you can control the order of the pages, and even have the pages follow a tree in navigation.
Making WordPress Appear as a Site
So if you have ever tried WordPress, you may be wondering how do I make the home page show only my home page, and not all of my blog posts. It’s actually very easy. Under Settings, look for Reading Settings. After you find that all you have to do is select a static page for front page displays, and then select the page you want to use as that home page (assuming you already made one).
It’s that easy. When creating your page you simply use Pages instead of Posts, and within the edit page you can select what order you what the page and its hiarchy.
If you are going to add pages to a WordPress site regardless of it’s format make sure you do pay attention to the page order function. By default pages are ordered alphabetically, but if you want you can change the order by simply giving them a numeric value. This setting is found when you edit a page under Attributes. If you look at the Power Juice site again you will see the Power Juicer Pro page on the bottom of the menu. They have the two most important pages on the top, and is clearly not alphabetized. They are making used of the custom order, and a basic website well done using the power of WordPress.
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Thanks for posting this! I tried using Joomla! for http://www.greenandchic.com but the learning curve was too deep for me. I find WordPress (at least for my blog) to be much easier. I wonder if its possible to add ecommerce/shopping cart, etc to a WordPress website. If so, I wouldnt mind switching from what I’m using now.
It should be no problem. In fact WordPress even has a few e-commerce/shopping cart plugins.
Hi there. Good post. I dont think Ive actually thought about it in that way. I can really appreciate how you approached the subject matter and what you said was food for thought. Nice precise info.