RE: FN-FORUM: Best Blog stuff?

date posted 18th January 2006 09:34

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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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.