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Using WordPress as a CMS

Devlounge has an excellent article on using WordPress as a CMS. It is a great starting point for new projects and lists some good questions to take when you approach a new web design client or project. I wish that something like this was there when I first started using WordPress and CMS, in particular when faced with clients.

I tend to approach website building with a handful of scripts (e.g. WordPress, Joomla!, SMF) depending on what functionality I need. My preference is for Joomla! when it comes to community management as it has some nice functionality geared towards doing stuff whereas WordPress is definitely more content orientated and more pleasant to use in that regard.

Nowadays I tend to approach website building on an instinctual basis as it is more for pleasure rather than work. Nonetheless, the article by Thord Daniel Hedengren should be an essential part to project planning for web design.