A Wordpress based approach to building a new website?

[Ian Leake]

I'm also on Wordpress. It's easy to install and easy to extend. There are lots of handy, free plug-ins if you don't want to do coding.

[Tom Kershaw]

I rebuilt my whole site earlier this year using Wordpress and Thesis framework. I wrote a series of articles about all of it that you can read here.

It is a very capable and flexible approach that makes adding content very easy. I am a fan.

Clay,

Thanks for pointing me in the direction of your articles. I was interested to learn of your use of Adobe Lightwave as I had not considered that approach. Could you describe in more detail how you apply Lightwave in your workflow from the scanning end; considering you're starting off with an analogue product in the form of a negative or print?

Tom

[Greg Davis]

Alec Soth just revamped his site using Wordpress and it looks good.

[deisenlord]

Another fan of wordpress here (www.davideisenlord.com), I used a theme from www.thethemefoundry.com but would also recommend Clay's suggestion of Thesis as it's very flexible.

[Tom Kershaw]

Another fan of wordpress here (www.davideisenlord.com), I used a theme from www.thethemefoundry.com but would also recommend Clay's suggestion of Thesis as it's very flexible.

David,

How do you see your theme in relation to 'Thesis'?

Tom

[deisenlord]

Tom,
I believe Thesis allows more customization without coding but it might take you a bit longer to get started. Thesis is really more like a "platform" or "framework" for a theme, rather than a hard coded theme. If that makes any sense.

[ROL]

The context here is that I need to re-build my photography website in due course within the next few months, having built a simple site with hand coded HTML back in 2006-2008 that hasn't been updated since and doesn't meet my current criteria; meaning I'm happy to start from scratch in design and technology terms.

I did exactly this earlier this year using Word Press and Zenphoto after 5 years of a relatively dead, hard to update HTML self-coded site. WP oriented content management systems (CMS) make updating gallery content a breeze, while the "blogging" features can keep your site alive and current. No $ output to create the site in terms of software using my existing host, plenty of help on line, and a vigorous user community have made me a fan. Most web savvy gurus seem now to be recommending blogging tools over web-design software for site construction of all kinds.

You can see my results here.

[Kerik]

Thanks to Clay and Ike, I'm a Wordpress user as well. I revamped my site earlier this year (thanks, Ike!), but it's still not complete. I've had other priorities come up in the mean time...

[Solarize]

My website is on Wordpress, based around a premium theme from www.prophotoblogs.com

I would have no hesitation whatsoever in recommending the theme. Well worth the money for the time it saves messing with code. It is also VERY easy to customise.

Ciaran

[Tim Gray]

So ROL, what did you use for the gallery portion of the site? I think my beef with using blog software for this kind of thing is that it ends up looking like a blog, i.e. posts by date and category. Most of the examples I've seen, including the ones at the prophotoblogs site, follow in this vein. Which is great if you want a photoblog kind of thing...