RE: FN-FORUM: Best Blog stuff?

date posted 18th January 2006 09:38

I'd agree with most of those - quite well put from a negative side - =
obviously there are a load of positiives to each of those negatives =
which may or may not swing somebodies decision.=20

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Fogarty
Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 10:07 AM
To: Andy Macnaughton-Jones
Subject: RE: FN-FORUM: Best Blog stuff?


1. How much time/money/effort goes into looking at all the open source =
solutions? Trying out the templates, realising it doesn't do what you =
want, move onto the next, etc.

I've just had a guy that's spent 3 weeks looking at shopping cart =
solutions before deciding that none of them fit in with his site. It =
took me a week to give him what he wanted.

2. How many of these 'solutions' are hosted on central servers? Do you =
really want to rely on outside sources to back up your data? If you =
have a blog, shopping cart, forum & newsletter then you've got 4 points =
of failure.

3. Do you really want 20,000 programmers to look at your site & know =
exactly what scripts you have & where they are stored?

4. If something goes wrong, or you want to make changes, isn't it better =
to talk to the programmer/company rather than posting on a forum & =
waiting days for a response that you might not like?

5. I assume that people using open source solutions aren't charging =
their customers for these solutions?

6. Templates always look like templates.

7. Whose to say that the open source providers won't decide to charge in =
the future? I'll wet myself laughing if phpBB decide to charge =A3100 a =
time.

8. What is the point in trying to fit a layout to suit the code? As a =
coder, it is my priority to make the code fit the layout.

I realise I am in the minority here, but my feelings are that open =
source solutions are cheap 'n' nasty.

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Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: Best Blog stuff?


Lee Fogarty wrote:
> If you design it, I can code it. I use php/mySql.
> You can't get any more custom than that!

But why reinvent the wheel? There are a large number of fantastic cheap, =
open-source and free solutions around that it really would be a waste of =
time/money/effort depending on how you look at it.


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