Emphasis on *web site*, not *web application*. Given a copy of Joomla and a $49 pre built theme, one can get a *web site* up and running in about 20 minutes, and yes, building one from scratch is just silly.
Of course, I've seen someone get charged $15K by a company for what amounted to a Joomla plugin - and they aspire to ruling the world with the 'application' they now have. Poor buggers On Oct 1, 3:42 pm, Ricky Clarkson <[email protected]> wrote: > Is it not true to say that almost every website requires something > that any given CMS won't cater for? > > > > On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 5:13 AM, Ruben Reusser <[email protected]> wrote: > > I saw this post the other day and was wondering what you all think about the > > approach - and if you have any experience with this approach it would be > > nice to hear what problems you ran into. There are some great Java CMS's out > > there one can build on top of too > > >http://www.metaltoad.com/blog/framework-dead-long-live-cms > > > If you don't know already, the framework is dead. That is to say, unless you > > have money to burn, frameworks like Zend, CakePHP, Django, Struts, .NET, and > > even Rails should not be considered as a foundation for building anything > > but the most unique and game changing websites*. The age of the framework > > for building websites is gone and it has been replaced by the open-source > > CMS or Content Management System. > > > In this declaration I am not promoting any particular CMS (although I'm > > partial to Drupal myself), simply letting anybody who hasn't heard the news > > that just about every website needs more than CRUD (Create Read Update > > Delete), a shared database connection and other simple tools frameworks > > provide. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "The Java Posse" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
