@trudy , I use WordPress for almost all my sites, from a simple one page to a more complicated sites.

Simply, you can almost everything with WordPress. Is there anything specific you would like to know about?

@hesham,I was just trying to let people think about their static websites and to think about revising and using WordPress. I am as are two other website I am connected with.  check out http://www.alabamamicroentreprisenetwork.org.and http://www.trudyphillips.com.  Working with the designer on http://www.bhra.org.

@readingtub, it is never too late to convert and existing site to wordpress. Your blog and website are combined.  My http://www.trudyphillips.com created in wordpress is about to be updated again.  Since I am not proficient in this I do have someone I pay for site updating but  I personally write my blog and need to get on it with consistancy in 2012.

@hesham, You mention a very good point. The long term relationship with a webdesigner. Not doing it with one and then search and hiring another one. My webdesigner has been connected first as a client of mine and then I became a client of hers 6 yrs ago and I trust her. She knows my thinking and makes sound recommendations to me for changes. Basic ingredient in building client relationships – trust.  And you are so correct. Money saving.

I already have a wp blog and am looking for somewhere to have it hosted. Should I stay there and move my website to it? I already own my domain http://www.thebaronyork.com which is hosted on microsoft office live but will soon be microsoft office 365 @trudy

I definitely have started using Wordpress to build sites for some of my clients—they can update it themselves without my worrying they will edit the design as well. Sometimes they originally did not want to activate the blogging and stuck purely to pages, but later decided they wanted a blog so it was great to just have to go in and make it available in the theme, adjust a few settings and voila!

I know a lot of you have been saying wordPress, and I just want to add to how amazing WordPress is! Not just for blogs, but for Intranets (my company, Colt Interactive, has developed MAJOR intranets for organizations like The Canadian Cancer Society using the latest version of Wordpress) as well as websites (that you would never tell were created with WordPress!)

@deairby You should move your hosting to hostgator for the below 2 reasons;
1. They got best support forum & also have live chat as well to find out timely solution of the customer’s problem.
2. Hostgator is totally compatible & fully supported with latest WP system requirement.
@trudy @deairby you both should check the Genesis Framework which is using by topbloggers i.e.;

• problogger.net
• chrisbrogan.com
• copyblogger.com

@einsley not sure how others feel about this, but I usually buy my themes on TemplateMonster dot com. Just go to the home page and select wordpress from the products drop down box. Every site has different needs. I usually start by figuring out whether we have a logo to showcase, whther it is text rich or image rich site, what colors fit the client brand… With all those parametersbin place it brings the choices down to a smaller list, and from then on it is a subjective choice – what they / I ‘like’.

@abigailgorton thanks for the insight.

@erica themeforest.net has wordpress templates at great prices.

:{ I hate it. I would rather write a 10 part essay on the merits of storm water management and the potential for toxic spills with the increasing amount of hazardous waste travelling the roads. I am a Need-To-See, Drag-and-Drop love Intuit girl. I know you can’t change hosting but with WP you can’t leave the template and at least they aren’t updating every other week.

@deniserubright   My WordPress website was done by the webdesigner I have used for a number of years.  Then when Basset Hound Rescue of Alabama had their webmaster resign from the group my person totally  redid it using Word Press.  She is trying to teach me how to keep that one current but I do not seem to have that skill set.  My recommendation is to have someone set it up for you.  Your time is valuable so don’t use it to try to set up your own site. Unless you are wanting to learn so you can market this a  money-making skill to others.

@deniserubright it’s actually not that hard… I’m just starting to use wordpress because they don’t really use it in my work (the programmer here just make any website you want ), and in a week I almost have it ready. I just watched a tutorial in Lyda.com and thats it but if you don’t know anything about web design or blogging… maybe it’s not for you.

I have to say, wordpress is genius. I’m use to do all the programming and design myself, wordpress is just heaven. But I still like to use it only in blogs, for professional business websites… I prefer traditional sites.

What template did you use? @aimeewest

@deniserubright

 Inspire

Joan! Thanks for the link to the plugins list. Very helpful, indeed.

Link in is a good thing to get backlink and traffic to your site no matter it’s wordpress or blog and so on.

just give my opinion…
my site is about selling sexy nightwear, that operated in oversea and if I want to gain a lot of traffic I might include some english language on the site to let the search engine index it (this case is because my site is mostly for thai customers) for example, my thai keyword is ชุดเซ็กซี่ (so I need it to be transleted to sexy nightwear) and of course I have this keyword on the site

my web is mostly for thai users but I better include some english.just visit my site to see as the example (my site is just crated, nothing much right now) you can click on the keywords above to go to my site..