html vc wordpress

[wesley]

I wonder if everyone would list a reason for staying with html. I am thinking about changing all my websites over to WP and will use my html designs but wonder if things might get lost in the shuffle.

I do not mean the data being lost but positioning, traffic, etc.

Can anyone give valid reasons why I should stay with the html??

thx for helping me make this decision

[1mak]

i think that this would be a good idea! cms system will make the admin and maintenace process much easier.

but you should take care of seo and already indexed pages .. prevent loosing a good pagerank.

[RovingCalypso]

Well a CMS is a much better way to do a website. The great thing about a cms is that although it provides great frontend with themes and plugins it also has a organized backend (for example wordpress).

[yogesh]

Wordpress is quite a good CMS solution, what you can do is a 301 redirect from your older pages to the new ones you create in wordpress. This way you wouldn’t loose serps or traffic.

[alpha]

Wordpress it the way to go.
You can also have a look at Drupal. It has some great CMS functionality.

[Games master]

Wordpress is one of the best blogging system.It has got all what a blogging system needs.It can make search engine friendly URL's.Also it has got many Plugins to make it more better.

[SSJJ]

Just go with it dude
Your site will rock

[paranoid87]

why would you lose HTML when you shift to Word press?? i actually read on their FAQ's i think that you can have HTML pages too..but what the change is that the templates are different and are based on php rather than plain HTML..

i am not an expert on this though i do have a wp blog

[joshua]

If you want to update your site regularly then going for wordpress is a good choice because it will be a lot easier to maintain this way.
But if you have some pretty static content then stay with html.

[kingjacob]

you wont lose your html designs in the switch but be prepared to do a bit of converting to get your templates working with wp.

[exculiber]

Before you make the shift, I suggest you activate plug ins and features that will make your Wordpress site search engine friendly. It is also advisable to update your content.