I've had more than a handful of friend/clients similar to your friend and I have set up nice sites for them using Joomla CMS. In about 2 hours I can register a domain name, aquire hosting for < $5 a month, and configure them a powerful database driven site that they can manage 99% without programmer assistance. I highly recommend it for situations where money is a factor and you don't want to get yourself into a situation where you'll have to do alot of followup work without being paid.
Don't get me wrong, for business I love building custom web apps with CF. But Joomla really fits the bill for these situations. If someone got Farcry hosting down to a 30 second install like Joomla does in cPanel I would try that. Greg On 11/30/06, Brad Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sorry this is a bit off topic, but it's been bothering me... > > > > <pseudo-rant> > > > > So I was talking to a friend from my church last weekend. He owns an > automotive spring shop and is trying to get a website up (products, > shopping cart etc..), but all he knows is HTML. > > His first problem in my opinion is that he is paying someone to > hand-build hundreds of STATIC HTML pages which contain all of his > available products. I just couldn't seem to convince him that he REALLY > needed a database. But that's not what bothered me though. Before I > even mentioned he should use CF, I told him that's what I code in, and > he recognized it from searching the WEB (he's done a little homework). > His first response was, "Oh, I looked at ColdFusion, but it was *way* > too expensive." Well, all this guy really wants/needs is a small > hosted site in a shared environment for not more than 15 bucks a month. > No problem. > > So, how is it that people search the web and completely miss that fact? > He actually thought he was going to have to pay thousands of dollars for > ColdFusion server! > > I know we've had discussions about the cost vs price of CF, but that's > not really what this is about. It just bugs me that when an uneducated > (but smart) person looks on the web for the first time the impression > they can get is "Don't use CF, it will cost you thousands of dollars". > When people sign up for cheap shared hosting accounts, they don't assume > they will need to purchase their operations system, database licenses, > or any of that shmoo. > > > > I guess it just bugs me that it is easy for people to completely turn > away from CF without ever looking at it just because no-one was there to > explain it. I want to see CF succeed in the market, obviously. What can > we do (not that we aren't already) to help spread correct info. > > > > </pseudo-rant> > > > > ~Brad > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:262415 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
