Can Wordpress be a Perfect CMS ?

[james]

I always wonder, why wordpress themes are not looking similar, to Joomla or Mamboo templates. Wordpress themes always had a blog look, and we seldom find a cms looking wordpress theme. If you find one well coded and designed, oops, its a premium paid theme.

Do you have any experience of Making a CMSlike wordpress site ?

Have you seen someone who could do it, well ?

Do you think its possible ?

Is it something, that themes can do ? or is there something beyond that ?

Please share your ideas !!

[lnxcode]

Originally Posted by james

I always wonder, why wordpress themes are not looking similar, to Joomla or Mamboo templates. Wordpress themes always had a blog look, and we seldom find a cms looking wordpress theme. If you find one well coded and designed, oops, its a premium paid theme.

Do you have any experience of Making a CMSlike wordpress site ?

Have you seen someone who could do it, well ?

Do you think its possible ?

Is it something, that themes can do ? or is there something beyond that ?

Please share your ideas !!

Do you mean making WP look like a real site - I mean outside of the regular sidebar and content body or?

[james]

Yes, I meant going beyond the normal blog looks ?

[Scott]

Yeah, most CMS styled WP sites are either custom or paid themes. They look spiffy.

I am hoping that 2008 brings out the popularity of the CMS style site using WP as the backend.

[marcOpolo]

Originally Posted by james

I always wonder, why wordpress themes are not looking similar, to Joomla or Mamboo templates. Wordpress themes always had a blog look, and we seldom find a cms looking wordpress theme. If you find one well coded and designed, oops, its a premium paid theme.

Do you have any experience of Making a CMSlike wordpress site ?

Have you seen someone who could do it, well ?

Do you think its possible ?

Is it something, that themes can do ? or is there something beyond that ?

Please share your ideas !!

Cool title huh!
Really though Mars Group Kenya Home Page has got to be the coolest WordPress CMS on this planet. Who knows what they'll come up with on a low oxygen spin. I doubt they't need the security this site has to deploy. What I wonder is this. How can their mail hooks pump out so much volume from just one server? Say they had a seperate server for each language - how?
From limited experience, and no PHP knowledge non-what-so-ever, 'wp adptation' for CMS is a slow process of raking back and forth through the admin options. To build a page like the one from Mars Home would take, say 2-3 days. Include equivalent practiced graphics, layout and fancy logins etc and you'd be looking at 2-3 weeks minimum. For my part, the build in of gloss and functionality are always synchronous and intuitive. To layout catagories with all those Martian domain hops on a plain-jane site might be done in a few hours if you knew EXACTly what you want.
Do you?
Something that themes can do is save your back breaking work when you get to the end of where you're going. Some themes come from a happy well=peopled place. Most, unlike the one from Mars, are not to useful. Google searches are full of the latter.
Subscribe to Martian deliveries and see if you can poke around, get friendly, get the digs on what goes.

>>> Your mission, should you accept it...!!!
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[marcOpolo]

Originally Posted by james

I always wonder, why wordpress themes are not looking similar, to Joomla or Mamboo templates. Wordpress themes always had a blog look, and we seldom find a cms looking wordpress theme. If you find one well coded and designed, oops, its a premium paid theme.

Do you have any experience of Making a CMSlike wordpress site ?

Have you seen someone who could do it, well ?

Do you think its possible ?

Is it something, that themes can do ? or is there something beyond that ?

Please share your ideas !!

Cool title huh!
Really though Mars Group Kenya Home Page has got to be the coolest WordPress CMS on this planet. Who knows what they'll come up with on a low oxygen spin. I doubt they't need the security this site has to deploy. What I wonder is this. How can their mail hooks pump out so much volume from just one server? Say they had a seperate server for each language - how?
From limited experience, and no PHP knowledge non-what-so-ever, 'wp adptation' for CMS is a slow process of raking back and forth through the admin options. To build a page like the one from Mars Home would take, say 2-3 days. Include equivalent practiced graphics, layout and fancy logins etc and you'd be looking at 2-3 weeks minimum. For my part, the build in of gloss and functionality are always synchronous and intuitive. To layout catagories with all those Martian domain hops on a plain-jane site might be done in a few hours if you knew EXACTly what you want.
Do you?
Something that themes can do is save your back breaking work when you get to the end of where you're going. Some themes come from a happy well=peopled place. Most, unlike the one from Mars, are not to useful. Google searches are full of the latter.
Subscribe to Martian deliveries and see if you can poke around, get friendly, get the digs on what goes. It's sure got me curious and curiouser. Hope the CIA don't mind.

>>> Your mission, should you accept it...!!!
This message will self destruct in 10 (ten) seconds. (life on Mars, lol)