Doesn't every website turn into a web application given enough users? Not that the users directly cause it, but extra bits get added. "could we personalise the site so that each user sees updates to the files they downloaded previously?". "We need to start charging for this instead of giving it away, can the website do that?".
I don't even do web development, but my instinct would be to use a minimal framework, one that gives you what you need then gets out of the way and behaves as a library. Lift looks like a good one. A CMS sounds like the antithesis of what I'd want. When it goes wrong I feel unable to alter it, especially if it's not open source or I don't have admin access. That could just be that I use a crap one (icentera.com) On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 6:53 AM, Steven Herod <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 for building websites is gone and it has been replaced by the open-source 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. > > -- 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.
