Indeed When Tony first proposed Wordpress to me a year or so ago I was very
skeptical, but its won me over.. Im constantly coming up with designs and
applications for sites that are as far removed from a simple blog as you
can get, with all sorts of complicated add ins, and word press always
provides the frame work even if we custom build add-ins for particular
features, and extravagant templates for the visual design.
Also When running a site long term, long after the initial design and build
stage, imho wordpress has the familiarity for the user base, to mean you
can find people who can do the basic updating, in the same way people can
sit down in from of a pc and use word.
in summary its got the power in depth to build just about anything, and the
user base and simplicity at the management front end to allow it to be
updated and maintained easily. The fact is open source with thousands of
plug in developers and easily portable database is an other bonus...
I recently had to fight my way through a proprietry CMS the other day that
I'd never heard of, and found it clever bus massively restricting and non
of the on site staff could figure out how to update anything...
all ihmo :-)
On 29 November 2013 17:46, Mike Ellis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> WordPress is *so* far from being just a blog these days. Maybe so 3 years
> ago but it's all about the CMS now...
>
> Mike
>
> _____________________________
>
> Mike Ellis
>
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> On 29 Nov 2013 17:35, "Tony Crockford" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > On 29 Nov 2013, at 16:44, Joe Cutting <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > >
> > > In theory there's no reason why you should use wordpress to build touch
> > > screen gallery exhibits.
> >
> > Interesting stuff Joe.
> >
> > Our kiosks are optionally supplied with locked down computers capable of
> > running a complete web server in standalone mode, so you don’t need an
> > Internet connection, the only issue for standalone mode is updating the
> > data, a scenario we have several options to overcome.
> >
> > We usually install a flavour of Linux and use the built in LAMP[1] stack
> > to run WordPress i.e. running a locked down web browser in kiosk mode
> that
> > displays pages served from the built in web server.
> >
> > We use the Operating System screensaver technology to reset the kiosk -
> > some of our exhibitions drop to a welcome page, some play a video on loop
> > until touched, when they then enter the exhibition at the start page.
> >
> > WordPress isn’t *just* a blog.
> >
> > We’ve used it for all sorts of web presentations and with the custom post
> > capabilities and multi-heirarchy tags and category stuff built in to the
> WP
> > core it lends itself very well to creating exhibitions of digital
> objects.
> >
> > It has a huge community of developers supporting it and as such removes
> > any proprietary lock-in issues and visual presentation is limited only by
> > the imagination of your designer.
> >
> > I think you _were_ being a bit negative.
> >
> > :o)
> >
> >
> > [1] Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP - the building blocks of a *lot* of the
> web.
> >
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