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www.singletrackworld.com/forum
What kind of company?
Www.Peakdistrictmtb.org
Christ. That's me.
Most of the good ones are completely invisible.
Thankfully these days, it's the bad ones that stick out.
But that could just be due to the fact that mediocrity (or WordPress) is everywhere.
But that could just be due to the fact that mediocrity (or WordPress) is everywhere.
I assume you mean Wordpress *THEMES*. Wordpress is a CMS, not a website design. You might be surprised at the range of sites (some 20% of the entire of the internet) that are built using Wordpress as the CMS and not using a theme.
<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12.8px;">But that could just be due to the fact that mediocrity (or WordPress) is everywhere.</span>
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Yes it is possible to customise it outside of a theme but not so many do. Even our 'pro' web company just dick with the colours a bit
back to Drupal for me 🙂
More like 25-30% of all websites are built on Wordpress these days.
Fairly ugly design/execution of a Wordpress theme: singletrackworld.com
OK design/execution of a Wordpress theme: dirtmountainbike.com
Pretty nice design/execution of a Wordpress theme: hopetech.com
Weird. Posted a post and it's vanished.
Oh well...guess it was something I did my end.
Here's a Wordpress one I made recently: www.craftbeerlist.co.uk
Wordpress: free
Listify theme: $65
6 hours of time configuring hosting/domain name/install wordpress/install theme/configure theme
I'm happy with it, just a few tinkers here and there to tweak it really
I'm not sure how that detracts from what I was trying to say. Wordpress requires a theme, be it included/off-the-shelf/custom or whatever so it has still lead to a similarity/familiarity between many sitesI assume you mean WordPress *THEMES*. WordPress is a CMS, not a website design. You might be surprised at the range of sites (some 20% of the entire of the internet) that are built using WordPress as the CMS and not using a theme.
[i]Posted a post and it’s vanished.[/i]
Did you try to do something fancy, like use the code buttons?
Because you are claiming that mediocrity is everywhere and appear to be suggesting Wordpress is to blame, but it's not. It is a CMS. What people do with the CMS is the blame.
It's like blaming bricks for bad architecture.
I think this one is very clever. I especially like the spinning globe gif.
Welcome to my netsight. Welcome!
johndoh - Oh I see. I think the word 'mediocrity' is the problem. I was meaning that similarity across sites lead most to be unmemorable, not that they are bad - like I said the bad ones stick out these days.
BTW - I'm a Wordpress designer, just in case you think I've got something against it.
Wordpress rant/ ...Yeah, I'm not sure a client of mine would spend £30k+ on a mediocre site over the year. Wordpress is a great CMS with powerful features and API's. It's not the fault of a tool it's the work man/woman every time.
Bit of a Uncle Dick with his camera at a wedding "Yeah I can take the photos, I've got a shiny DSLR".
Wordpresses success is good for the web for good and for bad. You'll be seeing many more WP sites when v5 comes out shortly with a modular block design builder built into core.. and you'll also see a lot of people leave WP for Craft cms ect.
That listify theme is fine - it's just if it has features that aren't included that you need then it's going to get messy and costly to maintain.. however it'd have set you back thousands if you wanted it from scratch so it serves a great purpose! Just make sure you take daily offsite DB and File backups.
<p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 0.8rem; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.2em; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Did you try to do something fancy, like use the code buttons?</p>
I think hitting submit was probably my undoing.
Edit: Yup. That was it.
It seems to me something is wrong with comments. I can't see it!
It’s certainly going to be interesting to see how some WP developers react to WP5. Some will embrace the change and others will look elsewhere. I know we went through the same thing with Drupal and the move away from small, basic sites.
Rachel
Wordpresses success is good for the web for good and for bad. You’ll be seeing many more WP sites when v5 comes out shortly with a modular block design builder built into core.. and you’ll also see a lot of people leave WP for Craft cms ect.
You can repeat this going back years. Frontpage, ColdFusion, PHP and I knew people who thought HTML was a bit pointless when there were "much better" markup alternatives.
So, no-one going to show us some nicely designed sites? From an aesthetic point of view I was mainly thinking.
What sort of sites? Ie, information sites, eComms sites, brochure sites? Or just 'nice' websites?
RE nice site just look on pinterest or dribbble or if you're after some fancy effects have a browse of some demo's here: https://tympanus.net/codrops/
Atlaz - WP's ethos was don't include what isn't needed which is the fundamentals of why it's a successful platform (and why this has kicked up such a storm). Introducing their own modular builder and making it core is a mistake in my mind (and others). It should be released as a plugin to start with (if at all). It's not a language issue its just trying to solve a problem that wasn't one for core to tackle. Things like ACF work wonders with Wordpress and I've hand on heart never seen a visual composer that doesn't promote bloated code.
We shall see!
Depends a lot on perception but for me a 'good' site is memorable and different, e.g https://www.lingscars.com/And no I'm not shitting.
Screwfix - especially the checkout.
https://www.neilyoungarchives.com
The Neil Young Archive - coolest/nicest website I've been on in ages.
Ah, thanks for sharing the Neil Young thing, didn't know about that - like it a lot.