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KSPhotography
5th of October 2009 (Mon), 08:37
What are your thoughts on this? Would it make sense to not have a website and just have an on-going blog (web log)?
bacchanal
5th of October 2009 (Mon), 08:50
Yes, you can configure wordpress many different ways including using static pages for some content.
blackshadow
5th of October 2009 (Mon), 10:15
I use Wordpress as my main page and have my photos hosted on a smugmug site (set up on a subdomain) that is accessible from my main page.
Mark1
5th of October 2009 (Mon), 10:55
Without a doubt it can be used. How effective it will be is another question. There are thousands of themes you can get for a blog. Some are just pretty things, others are pretty and also optimized for SEO. Look around the web, you will see many, many choices. Almost too many. There are themes from a simple blog, to full fledged e-commerce.
DigitalMom
5th of October 2009 (Mon), 11:04
I use Wordpress as my main page and have my photos hosted on a smugmug site (set up on a subdomain) that is accessible from my main page.
I was thinking about doing this and glad to see that someone else has it done this way.
cntry
5th of October 2009 (Mon), 11:16
How long did it take you set up the PixoPoint plugin?

I use Wordpress as my main page and have my photos hosted on a smugmug site (set up on a subdomain) that is accessible from my main page.
Silverpenguin
5th of October 2009 (Mon), 13:01
It's very possible, all you need to do is find and modify the right theme. The theme I have on my blog has an option when creating pages to have an extra wide page that has no sidebar...so I could easily put a slide show in there and have it as a gallery if I wanted.
dougxt
5th of October 2009 (Mon), 14:13
My site, although small and a work in progress, is all wordpress. It's a very powerful, customizable platform with basically any kind of plugin you'll need available. All for free.
damonb
6th of October 2009 (Tue), 06:31
A hosted Wordpress solution will have a ton of themes available, so I don't think this is entirely a bad idea. As mentioned already, Wordpress has a ton of themes available & your decision may depend on what you're trying to accomplish.
KSPhotography
6th of October 2009 (Tue), 21:27
Thanks for the feedback everyone. I'm going to attempt a blog and let you know how it turns out.