Archive for August, 2010
WordPress is a perfect blogging script, which has become very popular due to its user-friendliness. Many people, however, do not use it in any other way than for a blog or a newsfeed. We made another research on WP and found out that this software can be used for a number of other purposes. The websites below are built on the WordPress platform and enhanced with customized themes and plugins. This is an independent research, the websites are not strictly classified – we have picked those, which were built using WP in the most unusual way.
Build a Review Site
Let’s say you are interested in cinema, music or videos. You are likely to have your own opinion on all that. And most probably, you are intended to share your views and build a community around it. In this case you might take a look at http://typographica.org/ site owners. They deal with typographic design and make reviews of different fonts and type books. The way the website is built allows everyone to register with the site and gain Author or Contributor privileges for posting.
Build a Personal Website
If you want to have a personal website, but Facebook or Live Journal is not enough for you – build a WordPress-based website to share your ideas, thoughts and latest achievements in a newsfeed way. Such solution would fit those who are connected with art, sports or some social activities. One of the websites to look at is http://www.jefffinley.org – a personal site of a designer and artist, who partially deals with Internet marketing.
Place your Portfolio
If you are a designer or photographer or anyone else, who does their job well and has something to share, you should pick a portfolio to represent your best works. Many people install some gallery script in such cases, but WordPress can cope with this task just as good. If you look at http://lonnroth.info you will understand that a gallery has nothing to do with a well-built portfolio website.
Build a Gallery
When talking about galleries, we can’t neglect the fact that depending on the goal and the way you would like to have your content represented, even an online gallery may be created without using a gallery script. Taking http://cssremix.com as an example we clearly see, that a WordPress-based gallery is ways better, as it allows to lay out more image thumbnails, linked to real websites.
Open an Online Store
If you are running a small online business, a sophisticated and therefore expensive e-commerce software may not be needed for you, at least for now. That is where you can use WordPress to reach your goal. With WordPress enhanced with some of the E-commerce plug-ins you can run a website to sell your goods from. Here is the nice example of such a website: http://www.carmats.com.
Additional information and sources
WordPress community keeps growing. There are more and more plugins, themes and extensions released. Both developers and end users are much interested in making WP a tool, which would become one of the easiest sitebuilders known. The websites reviewed above are not all we found, but they are the ones, which drew our attention most, since we ourselves deal with both WordPress hosting and hosting of E-commerce and Gallery websites. This research lets us understand that a single script, if flavored with enthusiasm can do more, than usually expected. If you are interested in what else WordPress can do, have a look at http://www.webdesignerwall.com/trends/30-untypical-wordpress-sites/ and http://www.ndesign-studio.com/blog/best-wordpress-sites. Additionally, you can always follow updates on official WP site: http://wordpress.org/showcase/.
Summer brings more time and space for fun, so we at Sitevalley decided to spend some time on creating additional space for us and our customers to have fun. As a result, we welcome you at our official Facebook page. Follow our most recent events; take part in serious and funny discussions; meet fellow bloggers and forum runners; find new business partners and clients.
Contribute
The page is only being developed now, so we would like you to leave your feedback on what sections you would like to see there. If you are an existing customer, you should definitely have something to say, after those weeks, months or years you’ve been with us. If you are only looking into purchasing a hosting account, you may have some questions, and our Facebook page is the great channel to communicate with us directly.
Meet Our Team
If you used to know us by signatures and discuss only support issues, you are going to have a perfect chance to have a less formal conversation with us. We are open for any dialogues and discussions. You can PM us for something personal or start topics to involve both us and other fans into a discussion.
Share Your Moods and Knowledge
Do you like posting on walls? Well, we do, so you are welcome to post links and videos you would like to share. We are sometimes asked for an example of a site, built via this or that script. Our privacy policy, however, does not allow us to share such information. You on the other hand, as a site owner can do that freely, so if you are fine with it – feel free to post a link to your site. Apart from letting the others know what particular software can be used for site building, you may expect attract new visitors, new clients and more traffic.
Enjoy
The word “fan” is one letter away from “fun”. Being SiteValley fan is having a lot of fun. Await promos, quizzes and contests and get ready to them – everyone is invited – take part and win some very cool prizes.
Live your life in SiteValley style – we give home for your websites, while your website is a home for your ideas. Join us to share your ideas and learn something new from your fellow-fans, bring your friends and relatives with you. World of hosting is not only coding, debugging and optimization – everyone who owns a website becomes a part of the Internet – a part of a system and already a culture of the new generation. What would it be, if everyone suddenly quit? We at SiteValley are striving for making the Internet a better place. If you share our beliefs, let us do that together.
SiteValley Facebook page – where our fans live.