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Originally Posted by lakerslive
is wordpress that really customizable?.. i mean, can i make a clone of collegehumor.com using wordpress or am I better of with custom site?
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Of course you can. You would just have someone make you a custom theme for whatever you want. People on here won't tell you that because Wordpress is free.
Custom themes aren't that expensive and if you use a custom CMS like others suggest, you're going to spend money customizing the site anyway. At least with Wordpress you can use free plugins to enhance the site.
Both of my sites are Wordpress. I'm not a coder so I wanted something easy to use and modify as needed. Chica's Place uses a standard theme and that site cost me $25 because I had someone make the graphic header. The Gloryhole Swallow site cost $300 for the custom theme. They might not be as flashy as some sites but they convert very well.
The part I like the most is it's easy to find people who can modify the theme when needed. Every other custom CMS was a pain in the ass. When the designer could no longer be contacted, the new guy would tell me how long it would take to go through the previous guy's crappy code and it would be cheaper to start from scratch. This happened to me three times before I pulled the plug on custom CMS. Each new guy would bash the previous guy's work.
If I didn't use Wordpress, I would have gone with something like Elevated X. I have several friends that use it and like it a lot. I'm not cheap and I'll spend money on a good product, I was just sick and tired of the stupid games and flaky designers.
The last design I had made was by a well known company that I won't mention on here and it cost me over $6K. It took them 9 months to complete it and it was still full of bugs. Every time I wanted a small change made they would tell me $500! Now I get the same changes for free as a WP plugin.
I won't even go into the SEO benefits with using Wordpress because everyone knows Google loves it. People bash WP because it's free which I can understand because look at the impact free porn has on our business.