More and more people are realizing that Wordpress and Thesis is not only a great theme to run your blog on, but also a great way to operate a static website. This means that you should dismiss Wordpress as just a social blogging platform, and look at it for what it truly is – a highly customizable, and easy to use content management system (CMS) for all kinds of websites.
Let’s look at some of the ways that you can run a static website with Thesis and Wordpress.
- Create a Static Front Page
If you go in to your Wordpress dashboard, you can go in to the reading settings and change it so that you display a page rather than all your posts as the front page. This is great if you want to have a static bit of content about your business on your home page. - Use Thesis’s Design Options to Create a Website
Thesis comes loaded with an ever-improving set of design options. This means that you can quickly, easily and importantly without coding, update your site to have between one and three columns in various orders. You can change the fonts and colors to your hearts content and you can utilize the in-built features such as the multi-media box. - Don’t Worry About SEO Plugins
Thesis comes fully optimized for Search Engines. This means that it will lay the content of your site (titles and tags) out in a way that makes them work well with search engine spiders. You’ll of course need to make sure that your content is search engine relevant, but the key here is to understand that you can have a fully optimized web site without the need for any additional plugins to do that for you. - Expand To Interact with Your Customers
You can utilize plugins such as contact forms on your website to interact with your customers. This means that you can create simple order forms, surveys and other items that you might need when running a Static website. - Focus on Content
With Thesis’s simple but elegant design and Wordpress’s super easy to CMS you can focus on what truly matters on your website – the content. You don’t need to spend time messing about with your site to make it work properly or look right. Thesis and Wordpress takes the sweat out of that job.
As you can see, Thesis is a great way to run a Static website. It utilizes a very strong theme and an excellent CMS to enable you to quickly put up websites on any topic for any reasons. So why not get your hands on a copy of Thesis today and start to build your static website.
