WP or HTML mini-sites
 

I'm looking to use some domains and build some html mini sites or use wordpress. What is best to use these days?

wordpress.. learn some perl or bash scripting and you can have a site up as soon as you pump out a quick banner and color scheme

If it's submit and forget you probably want to go html if you have some decent templates made up already and understand basic SEO. Leaving wordpress sit un-updated can get you hacked one day. But scheduling posts in advance is cool with wordpress to give the site a little action over time. You just want to remember to log in occasionally to keep it updated. This assuming you're doing multiple installs.

If they're something you want to have update content on regularly, go wordpress. Its easier for me to use wordpress admin for updates than cut and paste html code on a custom designed html site with no backend. Spend some time finding the right themes, try for the same themes from one designer or company as any customizations you want to make to the themes will be easier as they all tend to code the same, assuming you want to make changes to have it better suit your needs and if it's adult sites there really arent a lot of WP themes that work well off the shelf, they all need some minor tweaking.

Also, with wordpress best advice in customizing is KISS. The more plugins you become dependant on the more chances of a plugin not being updated and working with the current version of wordpress in time. If a sites functionality is based around a single plugin that could lead to a bunch of problems and time wasted fixing them.

Just some amateur advice, good luck.

still word press is cool :)

HTML notepad style is the only way the professional do it.

I prefer html and php for minisites.

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why free?

I prefer html or php for mini-sites as well.

Good luck.

same here

Although I am not a WP user, I have a number clients who are ... and are very happy with it

I vote for WP all the way

Using WP for mini-sites is a waste of resources and an unnecessary risk.

not if you want to simulate user/writer activity, publish and rss feed and all tie into the various social media outlets automatically...

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if its just static pages, i would use a template system with xhtml/css but if you want more of the advanced features, wp would be my choice.

Good point!