I read a great post the other day over at Friendly Bit regarding the evolution and complication of web site development variables. The points highlighted are, no doubt, all too familiar for developers, but it skims the surface and begins to lend some insight to those who may not have a grasp of what it takes to develop a fully functional and flawless website.
The post: When web development was easy… from Friendly Bit.
There used to be a time, not too long ago, when a webpage was like a rock - static. Things were (hopefully) built in a manner that allowed for cross-site changes to be easily made but inevitably if you needed a change made, you had to put in a call to your friendly neighborhood web developer. Fast forward to the current day. Content Management Systems (CMS) are gaining popularity at an unbelievable rate of speed. With more people blogging or Twittering or updating their profiles on Facebook, the masses are becoming more and more accustomed to publishing content to the web through a browser-based platform.
It seems only natural that you’d want full and total control over your entire website. And with the technology today, it should be easy to set up, right? Wrong.
While different CMS solutions are built to work “out of the box”, they require countless hours of setup, configuration, customization and the dreaded “unforseen” to realize a full solution.
One of the greatest benefits of using a CMS is the concept of “modules”.
If you are looking for a highly customized site where ever page is different, a CMS is not for you.
