I keep getting requests to do WordPress sites and I resist.
I just turned dow a request to do a WP site after showing the potential client that even though WP is free all the required tools needed to do what he needed would cost several hundred $/year.
The best defense I've come across is this explanation from Nicholas Dionysopoulos (Akeeba developer). (For the full response look at his blog site: https://www.dionysopoulos.me/ for "The [* spam *] isn't greener on the other side." (This board blocks posting the exact URL.)
"Besides, there's the elephant in the root nobody talks about: there is no alternative to Joomla!. On one end of the spectrum we have WordPress, WiX, [spam] etc which allow people with minimal to no experience in web development to create visually compelling sites, with all the drawbacks I mentioned. On the other end of the scale we have Drupal, Laravel, Symfony etc which allow hardcore backend developers to create insanely powerful applications. However, most people belong in the middle. What's in the middle? Joomla!. It sits alone on the island of "good enough". It's good enough that people with a moderate skill set can use it to create visually compelling sites, and good enough that developers can use it to create fairly powerful applications. It's good enough that you can purchase off the shelf software and templates to create this kind of sites with a slightly steeper learning curve than a point-and-click page builder, but without having to be a hardcore developer writing reams of PHP code. This is what most site integrators need.
"And that's why I am sticking with Joomla! for my sites.
"My only concern about CMS in general is that younger people (Gen Z) don't seem interested in web development like us Gen X / Millenials used to (I was born in 1981, on the cusp of both generations, I could be called either). This is a threat not just to every CMS out there, but the web in general. If there's one thing we all ought to do is get younger people interested in web development, because that's humanity's best solution to the age-long quest of sharing knowledge.
"As we used to say in the old web, sorry for the long reply, here's a potato 🥔"
I just turned dow a request to do a WP site after showing the potential client that even though WP is free all the required tools needed to do what he needed would cost several hundred $/year.
The best defense I've come across is this explanation from Nicholas Dionysopoulos (Akeeba developer). (For the full response look at his blog site: https://www.dionysopoulos.me/ for "The [* spam *] isn't greener on the other side." (This board blocks posting the exact URL.)
"Besides, there's the elephant in the root nobody talks about: there is no alternative to Joomla!. On one end of the spectrum we have WordPress, WiX, [spam] etc which allow people with minimal to no experience in web development to create visually compelling sites, with all the drawbacks I mentioned. On the other end of the scale we have Drupal, Laravel, Symfony etc which allow hardcore backend developers to create insanely powerful applications. However, most people belong in the middle. What's in the middle? Joomla!. It sits alone on the island of "good enough". It's good enough that people with a moderate skill set can use it to create visually compelling sites, and good enough that developers can use it to create fairly powerful applications. It's good enough that you can purchase off the shelf software and templates to create this kind of sites with a slightly steeper learning curve than a point-and-click page builder, but without having to be a hardcore developer writing reams of PHP code. This is what most site integrators need.
"And that's why I am sticking with Joomla! for my sites.
"My only concern about CMS in general is that younger people (Gen Z) don't seem interested in web development like us Gen X / Millenials used to (I was born in 1981, on the cusp of both generations, I could be called either). This is a threat not just to every CMS out there, but the web in general. If there's one thing we all ought to do is get younger people interested in web development, because that's humanity's best solution to the age-long quest of sharing knowledge.
"As we used to say in the old web, sorry for the long reply, here's a potato 🥔"
Statistics: Posted by gsmela — Fri Oct 11, 2024 1:26 pm