In the past month I have created 3 websites all in wordpress. And I have to say each one has been a blast. Each of the sites have been for completely different uses.

• BlogHighEd.org – a Higher Ed blogger network. We aggregate the best of the best in higher ed from all areas: webmasters, marketers, counselors, vendors, consultants, and more.
• Engineering News- still in dev a new news site for my college that is based off of the Minnehaha theme created by developers at Concordia University, St. Paul
• AsYouWish – a website for a local wedding photographer / event planner

Wordpress has met my need for all these sites. I have also used it for other client work as a mini cms where the only place I leverage the blogging platform is for the news section. The more and more I get into it I love wordpress.

Here are a few tips if you are getting started learn and embrace template tags. They will do all the heavy lifting for you.

Another tip is that when you are creating a theme find a solid theme to start from. Personally, I don’t see a reason to start from scratch so I use a solid theme and massage it from there. If you start with crap you will end with crap. Probably 90% of the time I create a wordpress site I use for of Chris Pearson’s themes. He is a very solid wordpress theme developer and then I mod it to what I need. In the end non of my designs look like his theme they just provide me a good code base.

So I recommend definitely taking a look at wordpress for you next project and see if it is a good fit.