simply put.. wordpress is easier to use once you learn it, you dont have to mess with html as much or at all if you use wordpress... wordpress also has pluses when it comes to search engines and geting your website ranked or listed higher in them. yes you also can use the simple wordpress template that installs when you 1st setup wordpress on your hosting server. hope this helps
You can find themes that have little to no extras in it, but you need the template in order for WordPress to know where to put things. Everything from as simple as the font and the color of the font is controlled through the themes style.css. The way WordPress is coded it looks to the theme to know where things go and without it you would get an error page.
Here are 10 "blank" themes you can use - http://speckyboy.com/2010/03/22/10-blank...
WordPress provides you an easy and simple CMS development options, With the help of wordpress template there is chance for any web designer to design a website within fewer hours. Many attracting benefits are available while designing a website in wordpress.. There is also possibility for the web designers to embed security plugin which help the website to secure in huge level.
The wordpress as a platform is perfect itself there are just those few individuals who wanted to garner more visitors by making their site look better. Those themes are meant to make yourr blogging more personalize. Actually themes won't matter as long as you have the right and nice content. But for some making an artistically impressive view of your blog could draw an attention, so if you mix both content and a nice wordpress templates and themes, you are sure to have a lot of visitors and traffic.
Can you just make everything plain? No designs and videos? How is using those templates different from not using anything at all?
