[cross-posted from my OKCupid Journal]

In addition to facilitating my quest for True Love, my website and blog are online sandboxes that I play in to learn new things for my career (marketing and PR).

This past week I've been learning about CSS and blogging, and how to set up a server. As Mr. Spock would say, "Fascinating." I'm not really happy with this blog...customization options are extremely limited, and the functionality is very basic. On the other hand, it's free. There is something to be said for that.

So this week, I've been investigating other options for creating a seamlessly integrated blog on a website. And I'm looking seriously at Wordpress. It has a ton of capabilities, it's open source, it's free (unless you want certain upgrades) and it's in the process of evolving from a blogging platform into a full-blown CMS (content management system.) That has a lot of appeal.

Since OKCupid has a high geek percentage, I'm interested in people's opinions on building an entire site in Wordpress vs seamlessly integrating a single Wordpress blog page into an HTML/CSS site.

Pros? Cons? Expert opinions?