Building a website with WordPressOK

[bagerap]

OK, so like many of my generation I'm a stranger to HTML but I keep hearing that it's possible to create a website using WordPress which is essentially a blogging tool. Does anyone know if this is correct or has anyone tried it?

[Peckris]

OK, so like many of my generation I'm a stranger to HTML but I keep hearing that it's possible to create a website using WordPress which is essentially a blogging tool. Does anyone know if this is correct or has anyone tried it?

I'm a bit confused. If you can create a blog page exactly how you want it to be, what's the difference between that and a website, except it's free?

[bagerap]

This is what I'm trying to find out. How do pages link, can you incorporate a shopping cart, how easy is it to maintain and or change copy? All the sort of stuff a techno nebbish needs to know.

[Peckris]

This is what I'm trying to find out. How do pages link, can you incorporate a shopping cart, how easy is it to maintain and or change copy? All the sort of stuff a techno nebbish needs to know.

You can certainly have linked pages on a blog (the 'pages' are nominally dated entries, but you can name them what you want, and have them as a 'Contents' on your home page); you maintain or change copy as you like, probably even easier than a website. The difficulty I suppose, would be if you were selling stuff there - shopping cart etc - as I imagine the people who supply the facility (Google, WordPress, or whatever) would look askance at that and probably close it down?

However, if your 'shop' was on eBay, you could probably link to it from a blog and have better pictures and sales patter.

[bagerap]

That's an idea that hadn't occurred to me. Thanks Peck.