Sometimes it is necessary to make use of existing solutions that might be for another purpose but are tweakable. Recently I needed to rebuild a website for on of my clients. I only realized in a very late stadium that I actually needed some kind of content management for the site as the contents have grown enormously and was getting hard to handle. WordPress, originally a semantic blogging solution has shown to be a perfect fit.
Although the client has a (pretty) static website with seasonal content, by adapting the template files provided with wordpress I was able to make the site show pages that are actually blog entries, but completely stripped down. Result :
- A managable site
- Perfect css support so the customer never noticed the change to cms software
- I have extended knowledge of wordpress, so support is endless
- and finally, there are so many plugins and tweaks available for wordpress that there will always be ways of extending the site.
In short, this is how business is sometimes conducted. Make use of your knowledge and skills and you will find unexpected solutions.