Building a WordPress-based site for business is quite reasonable. First of all, business website has to be built on an advanced CMS. The times of improvised HTML and PHP pages are already gone. So when it comes to content sites, corporate sites, or stores that sell a limited number of products, number of CMS options is as a rule quite limited.
As a rule, there are three main contenders: Drupal, Joomla and WordPress, of course there are dozens of others CMSs, but these three are major ones. In brief let’s discuss which is best for a business website.
- The main drawback of Joomla is its heavy weight. Despite the fact that with Joomla one can build beautiful sites, it provides advanced administrative interface. All these benefits come to naught when it comes to daily work with the site. System response time is usually very long, and simple operations take tremendous amount of time, which reduces the chance for Joomla to be chosen.
- Drupal is less resource intensive, but its designs are often looking quite sloppy. The engine isn’t free from glitches that significantly harden the work.
- As for WordPress, I bet you know it for sure, it’s free from all of these disadvantages. Although the latest version of the system is quite demanding, however, with proper installation and configuration one can achieve sufficiently high performance. When it comes to the visuals, there is a great amount of templates, both premium and free.
Generally, WordPress is a blog oriented platform and most companies are moving to blogging, since it allows to organize easier interaction with the target audience. And finally, with WordPress you can build virtually any site, which will include blogs, stores, galleries or whatever else you need.
Live Business WordPress Sites
These days WordPress is one of the best solutions for business-oriented websites. If you are not sure whether it's right or not, have a look at following examples of live websites powered by WordPress CMS.
Designer of the Coloured Lines website have utilized the principle of a rainbow in the design. The same trick is used in the logo. Actually, such design approach really works for the favor of the site, since people enjoy watching rainbows and here, it works both as an interest and attention trigger.
Dark designs are mostly associated with luxury and wellness. The Wright Land is a real estate development and construction company that produces...Attention, luxurious homes. Black combined with golden fonts looks quite astonishing. And all this awesomeness in complemented with WordPress.
VVI is a full-service advertising agency & marketing company that uses WordPress for its stylish website. Paper-like texture on the background and prevailing black makes it look quite awesome.
The most impressive thing in this website are the full-scale photos of interiors. The company specializes on sets of furniture, and interior items, good look is of a primary importance for such companies.
Ganau offers a full line of natural cork in a variety of visual grades, as well as the choice of natural or hydrogen peroxide color. The company uses a single page website design to present all the benefits of their products. On the right part of the page we can see the progress bar with titles that show where exactly we are right now.
We see your ideas way before your wallet. When rock, paper, scissors doesn't work. Proactive pays off, reactive costs more.
Apart form having this cool motto, Emblem IP company has a great website. Bright color combined with illustrations, sketches and photos make it look really unusual.
The first word that came up to mind was "WOW!" This design looks not awesome, but terrific. First thing you see is a cinemographer, just with a waving scarf. The site is created in a form of slides, i.e. it's a one page design with a progress bar in the left part.
Business WordPress Themes
Now let's have a look at some of the most popular WordPress themes for business projects. All of these WordPress themes are produced by TemplateMonster.
Just to remind you. Currently TemplateMonster is holding a WordPress promo, you can get any WordPress theme from the collection with 50% discount. Visit the gallery to pick the design you like the most.
This is a very clean and minimalistic design. Due to the minimalist concept navigation is simple and compact. And it would be cool not only for the visitors, but also for you: the template provides you with a Cherry Framework, filtered galleries, shortcodes, parent and child themes and much more.
This design features tiny graphic elements and wise implementation of typography which make it clean to look at. The navigation is facilitated with the additional menu in the footer and back-to-top button in the lower right-hand corner.
This design for an insurance company incorporates neat graphics and unobtrusive color scheme. The main content part displays blocks with list of services, featured boxes of information, list of categories, text containers powered by Accordion script. Additional menu in the footer helps clients find everything they need in one click.
Flat design is the main schtick of this design. With this WordPress theme you can forget about some additional work on designing – just focus yourself managing the website.
How do you think an investment company website should look like? The screenshot below gives a hint. The site should give it's visitor a clear understanding where to get info one needs. As you this is not a problem in this case, the content blocks are arranged in a way to give as much info in the minimal possible time.
Advertising company should start from showcasing its successful projects. This is some sort of 'ads for ads', if your visitors can get info about your previous projects they will make a decision (to work with you) much quicker.
This theme is created in a minimal style. It includes a deep integration with blog where you can keep the customers up to date of your service updates.
