An Inexpensive Way To Manage A Website - Use A Blog Platform
Last week, I came across a website where the author is a charging US$147 for an ebook and related software to show you how to use WordPress to manage a regular website instead of just a blog. Don't waste your money. I'll show you how to do it for free.
It's actually very simple. Most blogging platforms have an option where you can set the number of posted entries appearing on the main page of your blog. (Although I've only seriously tested this on WordPress and Blogger.com.) Now assuming that, under default settings, your blog entries appear both on the main blog page as well as on individual "post" pages (Blogger.com's terminology), you can simply set the number to zero.
If you do this, then your blog page template no longer looks like a blog. You can still have a "Recent Posts" list, or go with a standard navigation bar. Keep in mind that every single webpage on your site that has been created with the blog platform will have the exact same look and the same navigation.
You can manually edit a page, but as soon as you post a new entry and re-build the site, the manual edits will be wiped out. The only way to get around this is to create some webpages through means other than the blog platform - which of course defeats the purpose of using this CMS (Content Management System).
If you want to create a hybrid site - that is, what looks like a website but has a "featured article" - then design your page template to look like a web site, but with space for a "featured article". Now set the number of entries on the main page to be 1. I'll have an example of a hybrid blog/ site at http://webguru.mathgurusonline.com within a week of this posting. (There is nothing on the page at the time of this writing, but I've designed a template and am building right now.)
Hope this tip is of some use to you. If anyone wants to pay me US$147 for the advice, feel free :D
(c) Copyright: 2005-present, Raj Kumar Dash, http://blogspinner.countwordula.com/
It's actually very simple. Most blogging platforms have an option where you can set the number of posted entries appearing on the main page of your blog. (Although I've only seriously tested this on WordPress and Blogger.com.) Now assuming that, under default settings, your blog entries appear both on the main blog page as well as on individual "post" pages (Blogger.com's terminology), you can simply set the number to zero.
If you do this, then your blog page template no longer looks like a blog. You can still have a "Recent Posts" list, or go with a standard navigation bar. Keep in mind that every single webpage on your site that has been created with the blog platform will have the exact same look and the same navigation.
You can manually edit a page, but as soon as you post a new entry and re-build the site, the manual edits will be wiped out. The only way to get around this is to create some webpages through means other than the blog platform - which of course defeats the purpose of using this CMS (Content Management System).
If you want to create a hybrid site - that is, what looks like a website but has a "featured article" - then design your page template to look like a web site, but with space for a "featured article". Now set the number of entries on the main page to be 1. I'll have an example of a hybrid blog/ site at http://webguru.mathgurusonline.com within a week of this posting. (There is nothing on the page at the time of this writing, but I've designed a template and am building right now.)
Hope this tip is of some use to you. If anyone wants to pay me US$147 for the advice, feel free :D
(c) Copyright: 2005-present, Raj Kumar Dash, http://blogspinner.countwordula.com/
