wordpress or html?

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ok so i have a niche i've been wanting to get into, i've just been a lazy ass. anyway i want to make a site for a product. there is a lot of content about the niche that i can add to the site.

now here are my 2 ideas.

1. use basic html, create the page i want it, and create separate pages for each article.

or

2. use wordpress, and post content a day at a time as a new blog post

now heres the deal, i would personally rather the second option, but in addition to my blog i want the offer page, which will have the product review of the item i am selling, the only thing is that i dont realy know how to edit wordpress to get the layout of the review how i want it. also im going to run PPC if that makes a difference.

what should i do ... a contnet rich blog or a content rich html site?
 


go with wp
you said you'll add a lot of content, with wordpress you will save many hours when publishing content and managing the website that you can spend learning to customize what you need

and you can always add static html pages in the same directory where you install wp in case you really can't get it to look like you want
 
i'm just not really sure how to break anything up in tables on WP, i feel like its just linear like theres only one spot that you can put content .. u know?
 
In a text editor open the page.php file that is located in the theme folder. Add this to the top above all code.
PHP: 
<?php
/*
Template Name: Your Template Name
*/
?>
Now you can edit anything on that file and then upload it the theme folder. When you want to create a custom page using this file just create a page instead of post in the wp admin. You will need to specify the template before you publish the page.

You can also simply add html to the file itself and to have it publish just create a blank page using that template but give it a title for the link.

Also check out http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages
 
Use WordPress. While when you only have one site idea, editing HTML sounds reasonable, as you scale up it will become unsustainable. You need to know how to use and edit a CMS, and WordPress is an easy and ubiquitous one. No time like the present to learn.

As for editing, WordPress pages are just templated HTML -- that is, they're HTML files that have some special fields and script in them. You can still make it look like whatever you want. Find a free theme that's close, then look at the theme files and see how they're put together. Anything in <?php> tags is script -- the actual code that WordPress replaces with posts, headings, etc. The stuff outside the tags is template -- the HTML that makes the site look pretty. At first, leave the code alone and just edit the templates; as you learn, you may eventually find yourself hacking at the code as well.
 
These days you normally only need a flat html page for dead simple projects (landers, etc), otherwise wordpress for the can handle most content management requirements, especially if you get into plugins and custom themes.
 
Jizzlobber said:
I'm thinking your review content is in HTML table format?
Click to expand...

yea similar ... i'm only going to review one product for now i just want to look like a content blog that reviews a product

basically just a simple image, text, and some specs on teh product, and some comments
 
that is a different thing it is also depanding on what you need html take more time to put i think then wp is better
 
It better to go with WP. Here are the reasons to support my view.

1- WP helps to post content with the click of a button.
2- It does all the SEO stuffs itself. Somewhere I read - someone saying (I think Mattcutts, in his blog) that WP does about 95 % of the SEO stuffs for us.
3- Installing plugins is a breeze and it makes our site look way better than html sites
4- Managing the site would be really easy with WP.
 
Yeah you can copy and paste html into the WP editor to have tables...but it can be tricky dealing with the visual editor for whatever reason stripping out code. Usually you can fool around with it enough to get it right. You can also turn off the visual editor, but then you lose some of the ease of use that WP gives you.

There is also a plugin - TInyMCE advanced that adds some functionality to the WP Editor. One of the things it adds is a table to button to your editor...but again it is a bit finicky to use sometimes.
 
I'm thinking Wordpress all the way. If you want to cut down bloating on plugins you may want to run some WP Hacks and also run something like Thesis which eliminates the need to have a load of plugins.

There are a bazillion pieces of software that will help you turn flat text files into content that you can schedule for the future, so you don't need to be creative every day.

If you do go down the WP route choosing a host that makes installing it through Fantastico would help you out.

If a dullard like me can configure WP then smart people could do wonders with it.
 
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