Using a Blog as Your Website: Why
Why you should consider using a blog for your website… Visitors to TrafficFolder.com will have noticed that this site is set up as a blog, although many of the features are not typical of blogs (such as the static introductory text on the main (index) page and the nature of most of the entries). People tend to think of blogs as being what they were first used for – web logs – and this suggests online diaries and their like. However, blog technology is just that, a medium through which you can express yourself, so you can in fact use it for whatever publishing purpose you have in mind. More and more people these days are using blog technology as a content management system (CMS) for their web site, and there are a lot of advantages to this approach over the traditional way of making websites.
The advantages of using WordPress as a CMS for your web site are numerous, but to put it basically, you end up with a much more sophisticated site that does a lot of things automatically for you. This saves you a lot of time, gets you more website traffic (what TrafficFolder.com is all about, of course), and presents a more professional site to your visitors. The most obvious thing that saves you time is that you don’t have to worry about making internal links any more — surely one of the most boring tasks when making a new web page for your site. WordPress does all that for you. What else does WordPress do? It creates an RSS feed of the posts in your site and presents this to your visitors as something they can subscribe to. More and more people are using feed readers or feed aggregators these days to access information from web sites, and if you don’t take advantage of this then that is one traffic-getting method you are ignoring for your site or business. And to be successful with your site, whether it be a hobby site, a business, a charity, or for whatever purpose, you need to be systematic about generating website traffic and make use of all the methods available to you if you are to be successful in what you are doing (too many people only make use of one or two traffic methods, ignoring the other methods that could bring them hundreds or thousands of new visitors). A WordPress powered web site is also part of the Web 2.0 Internet, something that we have all got to partake in if we are not to be left behind and our sites marginalized in terms of traffic and interest.
When I have finished the post I am writing now TrafficFolder.com will automatically ‘ping’ it to the search engines to let them know that there is new content for them to index (cool, eh?) and all the links will be done for me. A comment box will also appear automatically at the end of the post to enable visitors to have their say, ask questions or add to the information here. When you’re making web pages surely it can’t get much better than that?
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In the recent past, being aware of this, and having read up on blogs as CMS systems for web sites, I had had it in mind for a couple of years to start making web sites using WordPress, the leading blogging system. But, like most people, being hesitant about trying something so apparently radically new to the way I worked, I put it off far too long. But when I eventually did make the change I can say that I would not now go back to making websites using Dreamweaver.
So, TrafficFolder.com is a WordPress powered web site. If I want to make static pages which are more like traditional web pages then I have the option to do so, but I also use ‘posts’ (which are more like diary entry slots) but I use them to post the latest information I have to offer my visitors, as well as for instructional, how-to type information. 
Traffic Folder is about helping you to increase traffic to your website, especially if you are on a limited budget or looking for no-cost techniques.
You say you will never use dreamweaver again, but as wordpress (or other CMS’s) do a lot of the management for you isn’t it sometimes a nuisance if you want to go deeper than the supplied user interface?
Nothing is perfect, and WordPress has its idiosyncrasies too. But the advantages of using WordPress for a website outweigh the disadvantages, in my opinion.
I cannot believe this will work!
TrafficFolder.com is the evidence of that it does, though Traffic Folder still has many blog characteristics, of course, such as posts and comments. If you want something that looks more like a traditional site (but why would you?) create ‘pages’ using WordPress rather than ‘posts’ and find a way to disable comments. Then you would have the advantages of easy page creation and ‘automatic’ linking WordPress confers but a ‘traditional’-looking website.
TrafficFolder is now offering a WordPress Setup and Configuring service here: How to Configure WordPress and Setup. It’s a low-cost, quick and efficient service designed to save you days of trying to figure it out for yourself.