Posted by Kenneth Downs on 02/14/07 02:31

white lightning wrote:

> I've been thinking lately about whether to use opensource CMS such as
> Joomla or to build something from scratch.
>
> I am good with PHP/ MySQL but only little bit familiar with Joomla.
>
> I want to know when to use CMS and when to code from scratch? How do I
> make such a decision? Need some expert advice.
>
> Thanks

What are your motivations?

In purely business terms, an established package lets you deliver to
customers faster. You accept a small learning curve, because its still far
smaller than trying to establish a familiarity with the problem domain by
responding one-by-one to customer demands, especially if the customers are
expecting slick up-to-date sites.

The other common motivation is simply that programmers like to code, so we
code. Why take a 3 hour flight to LA when I can walk there myself in only
4 months!

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Kenneth Downs
Secure Data Software, Inc.
(Ken)nneth@(Sec)ure(Dat)a(.com)

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