[Hidden-tech] [SPAM] Re: Website development comparisons?

[Daniel Fried]

Excellent advice.

I believe that there is no one solution that is best, and I think you can't
even discuss pros and cons without a good understanding of what you want to
accomplish.

I worked for a while as an independent web developer, and I used a lot of
different solutions (people didn't come to us for plain html, we would
generally be hired separately from the designers when extra work was
needed).

ECommerce was usually an out-of-the-box solution, which we would sometimes
customize.

A client with a need for a lot of flexibility in a large organization with
an IT director who had veto power over web apps got a Joomla-based solution.

A client who needed a website that integrated their system of DRM encrypted
data got a from-scratch custom solution.

My current company (I'm creating a product now instead of contracting to
others) has a website that will only be occasionally visited by a potential
customer that wants to see that we're legitimate, we get won't be getting
any clients from web searches or web-based referrals, so we don't need to
change content on a regular basis (trust me, it's the industry we're in...
please HT'ers, don't send me messages about how we're missing
opportunities).    We paid for a nice professional design and put up a plain
HTML site.

There are even people for whom Market America might be the right choice, I
don't know anything about them.

If you can provide some more information about circumstances, I'm sure you
can get a lot of feedback here.

-Dan

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 6:50 AM, Paul Stallman <paul at alias-solutions.com>wrote:

>   ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area.
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>
>
> To be honest and not to sound harsh, but with a question about what's best
> to use wouldn't it be best to first closely examine what you want to
> accomplished with this website?  A good website is a tool with a purpose,
> the technology behind it needs to be chosen based on the requirements of
> that.  Features are nothing more than features.
>
> The only reason I press this is because if you look at these things female
> a features standpoint Market America is gonna look all shiny and pretty.
> Market America is a pyramid scheme plain and simple.  It looks pretty but it
> is not a real web solution.
>
> My advice is if you know what you want your website to do for you then talk
> to a web developer about what will work best to get you there.  Or ask
> here.  Sure everyone will have their favorites, but you get better insights
> than you will from a comparison chart of "features".
>
> Sorry if that came off as harsh, but I've just seen too many people cheated
> by Market America.
>
> Paul Stallman
> Alias-solutions.com
>
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> Hi,
>
> Is there a place where one can get an overview of the various website
> development options available? (realizing that this is always evolving...)
>
> Including positives and negatives of:
> • Building a site from scratch using HTML
> • Dreamweaver and similar programs
> • CMS programs: Wordpress, Joomla, etc.
> • BackStage
> • other options
>
> Has anyone worked with Market America Web Centers?
> http://home.mawebcenters.com/
>
> Thanks,
> Deb
>
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