WordPress Selected Best Overall Open Source Content Management System
Author: Ray Gulick; Published: Nov 23, 2009; Category: 4-Column Grid, WordPress as CMS; Tags: Evo4 CMS, WordPress as CMS; No Comments
We’ve been on the WordPress-as-CMS bandwagon for several months. Recently, we heard WordPress was awarded the Best Overall Open Source Content Management System award in the 2009 Open Source CMS Awards, beating out Drupal, Joomla, and a bunch of other geek favorites. We didn’t even know there was such an award, but of course, we like that it confirms our point of view that WordPress is a great CMS.
Recently on our blog, Evobloggito, we posted that All Small Business Websites Should be on a Blog Platform, by which we really meant "on WordPress." We were trying to appear open-minded. But really, we’re biased: we love WordPress. There, we said it! And we don’t care if the whole world knows it! WordPress has earned our favor by being simple, flexible, and powerful. And the more we use it, the more we understand how simple, flexible, and powerful it truly is. Read the above article for the benefits of blog-based websites for small businesses.
Then, download this 4-column WordPress theme and the Photoshop design template.
Evo4 CMS WordPress Theme Available for Free Download
Author: Ray Gulick; Published: Oct 1, 2009; Category: 4-Column Grid, WordPress Theme, WordPress as CMS; Tags: Evo4 CMS, WordPress as CMS; No Comments
One of the things I’ve noticed about free WordPress themes: most of them seem to be exercises in design, that is, creating a "look" for a new blog. There is nothing wrong with that, but since I’ve never used an existing theme without major hacking, often until it would be unrecognizable to the theme designer, it seems like all that attention to how the theme looked was largely wasted.
Evo4 CMS will never be accused of being pretty and having a "cool look" as it unzips from the download file. It is not for casual bloggers who are looking for a "plug-and-play" theme. Instead, it is meant for professional-level designers who want to use WordPress as a CMS platform on which to build business websites with integrated blogs. Successfully turning the theme from the gray, blank canvas you see in front of you into a beautiful website will require a firm grasp of design skills, Photoshop skills, and maybe a bit of understanding of PHP; but it does not require major hacking. Designers can focus on design. And I hope to God their design looks nothing like what you see on this page, but is suitable for whatever business or organization the website represents (instead of looking like a site for a depressed undertaker).
Evo4 CMS is built to offer the most preferred webpage structure (subnav on left/main content right) and the most preferred blog structure (posts on left/sidebars on right), tied together by compatible footer widgets and header item placements in a 4-column grid.