using wordpress to run a music/band site... (Page 1 of 2)

I stared oodling with wordpress and set this up: http://communicator.dvtd.com/

I too was wondering which worked better and just went in and started reading in the forums and stuff. Seems like that has won over many old Movable Type users too so I think that says something. I imagine that pairing your wordpress and something like CSS Edit (http://www.macrabbit.com/cssedit/) and Dreamweaver you should be able to create anything you want.

I've built two sites using WordPress as the CMS and am a fan. It got a bit tedious at times, but only because of the extent of the customizations I was doing. Knowing PHP helped but is probably not a prerequisite because the WordPress functions are so well-documented.

i love wordpress

oooh - tabs??
I haven't read about them yet! will have a bit of a research on them tonight.
:-)

I was originally wondering if I might be able to have the one basic blog, and partition stuff with categories.

here's the basic 1 hour hack (including searching for and finding a layout I don't really like, but think it's a fair way in the right direction of what I want to do - if I can get rid of that whole left panel, for a start!! but don't want to waste any time on layout if I can't make the content come together how I want)
http://bleepin.com/test/

basically I don't want the whole site to look like a blog if I can help it... but I do want areas of the site to work like a blog (plan on having a DIY section where ed and I write articles on random electronics stuff we've done/are doing, and a basic news section that lists all the new things that happen on the site as well as actual news posts from us as things happen)

.....which is why I'm wondering if it's going to be the right thing for me or not - I've found very little info on making non-blog sites with wordpress in the hour or so of research I've done...

but yeah... I do have a lot of other options to wordpress too. my hosting control panel seems to have all this available for me to fire up if it's any help?

blogs
b2evolution
Nucleus
WordPress

Content Management
Drupal
Geeklog
Joomla 1.5
Joomla
Mambo Open Source
PHP-Nuke
phpWCMS
phpWebSite
Post-Nuke
Siteframe
TYPO3
Xoops

I had a link bookmarked at my old work for a pretty sweet mod for wordpress to change it to a cms. I guess if you know php you could just do it yourself, i think this costed about $50 or something.
I'll see if I can find the link again

http://www.wpremix.com/home/
Thats the shit i was looking for.
It's a commercial packagebut only $55, so if it does what you want it isn't exactly breaking the bank.

I was thinking about using wordpress for my personal site and found that, didn't get started on it yet though..

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go for drupal!

......is your site built with drupal? http://ru-d.net/
:-)

I had a bit of a look, but it looked really complex... like it's designed for 1000+ page monster sites. and that scared me off a bit.... our old site had, like, 8 pages.

AUCH you got me there!

it was made with drupal before I crashed it... it will be back some day I guess.

i run two sites on wordpress and its very nice i think. very quick to get started and build sites with, also very beginnerfriendly and not very complicated. i wouldn't consider it a fully fledged cms, but it does the job just fine for not so complex sites. also there are lots and lots of plugins that extend the functionality of wordpress available. give it a go and test it locally first before you decide. i recommend downloading and installing xampp or a similar php/mysql/apache distribution for labworks.

im also trying out joomla on another site and its pretty nice as well, but a lil bit steeper learning curve perhaps.. it all depends on what you want to do.

well.... I think I'm going to stick with wordpress.

It might not do 100% of what I want, but it looks like the simplest option (short of just making a framesite in html again) and wordpress looks like it's going to be going strong for a long time. Will probably go for the $55 template...

Drupal looks amazing, but I think it'll be a year before I get to turn on my synths, if I go down that route...

I'd really like to play with that stash thing, cause it basically looks perfect in terms of features -  but a non-maintained system looks like massive future heartache. aaah well.

Thankyou for your help and suggestions so far everyone!!!

And further comments and suggestions are still welcome if we haven't covered all the possibilituies yet.