Good Web sites built on top of a standard Weblog toolkit?

12 thoughts on “Good Web sites built on top of a standard Weblog toolkit?”

1. Check out Herrick Kimball. He is known most for his Whizbang Chicken Plucker.

   http://whizbangbooks.blogspot.com/

   Although he has many inventions.

   His main blog, recently retired is here.

   http://thedeliberateagrarian.blogspot.com/

2. Although it’s my own family’s site, I helped put together the blog section of http://www.seliger.com and tried to match the general look of a standard WordPress template to the professionally designed main site. You can find the blog part through the main site or here.

3. Philip,

   Our website (http://www.rittmanmead.com) is built on WordPress, but is used as a general purpose website + blog.

   regards, Mark

4. Check out GuestCentric Systems built on top of WordPress

   http://www.guestcentric.com/

5. We’ve been using WordPress for our portrait and wedding business since early 2005.

   http://studio306.com

6. Dane Carlson’s site is a good example of a small business site built around the weblog format:

   http://www.business-opportunities.biz/

7. Hello Phil,

   Here is an attempt to use wordpress to develop a fashion website.

   http://www.lagunabeachbikini.com/

8. BTW, there programmer even wrote an article along similar lines as your Wordcamp talk

   http://www.lagunabeachbikini.com/index.php/2008/02/09/web-design-in-2008/

9. The following is a site my (web development) company designed and built for the residential home-building business that my brother and I operate. It was completely constructed with WordPress (mapping “properties” to “posts”, and using custom fields to enter geo coordinates used in the Google maps):

   http://thehendersonbros.com/

10. http://www.dreamfactoryrochester.com/ — local chapter of a national non-profit.
    I suggested WordPress to them a few years ago, for the same reasons you’re citing.
    Note that the basic multi-user CMS features make it easy for them to delegate writing, get new people up to speed quickly, and never worry about damaging the HTML content.

11. We’ve got a big collection of impressive WordPresses linked here:

    http://wordpress.org/showcase/

12. Here’s another good link:

    http://www.noupe.com/wordpress/25-unique-uses-of-wordpress-as-cms.html

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