I know I’m not the first to think about using WordPress to run a site/portal, but until recently, I had no idea how easy and “slick” it could be, especially when you are helping someone who doesn’t really know what they want and sends items to add “as they happen to come to mind”. So my first WordPress-as-website project is for Dr. JP Das. Including all the tweaks to the php, moving from one domain to another and fixing broken links, the entire setup process was about 4h long and now I can easily edit it anywhere should the need arise.
The finished look is certainly very professional and the system is easy enough to use. My experience now with Drupal, Joomla/Mambo and WordPress strongly suggest that unless you have a need that just isn’t being filled in WordPress, that it might be the easiest way to start building a website. Schools, small business and the like would all be able to leverage the system far easier than one of the more fully featured systems that while easy to get going (I’d choose Drupal over Joomla), the backends can get very messy. If used properly, I’m sure WordPress – especially as WPMU, can be quite a handy CMS as well.
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