Depends on what you (or your customers) need... I developped my little CMS to build a presentation website for a local organization of firefighters in my city. They hadn't a lot of money to expend, and they needed something very simple, to edit some webpages content. Wordpress / Joomla were already overcomplicated for them.
My second customer was a town hall in a little village close to home. They had same needs : something as simple as possible to edit a few webpages. And so on... Finally, of course, a specific app that addresses exactly each customer needs is ideal for them. But not every customer will accept to pay thousands of dollars for only a few of basic features. 2013/9/27 Richard Vézina <ml.richard.vez...@gmail.com> > CMS is dead!! Yes there is still need for it, but there is plenty of > already mature and working solution out there. With the frameworks you can > make much better than any CMS will never be able to do by developping a > specific app that address the exact needs of your cusomers. For sure it > requires more skills, but you should master what you do anyway if you are > serious. For a serious cusomer 5K is a basic check in the Web. For this > price a good developper can build something really good for the specific > needs of the client using Frameworks. The resulting app will be easy to > evolve database centric according to the need of the client. For others > that only one page on the web there is CMS (WP, Joomla, etc.). But I think > that trying to build a custom site with CMS as many are doing with plugins > is a waste of time and money and only lead to a poorly secure web site. I > had issue with WordPress and plugins in the pass and there is no way to > know if a plugins is safe or not even if it is largely used. > > I am not saying that creating a good web2py CMS is not useful, but maybe > just use WP or Joomla with a custom app for client specific need in > symbiosis is more money wise?? So you have best of both world... > > Richard > > > On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Loïc <loic.esp...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >Shortly, my point is that at the moment web2py is filling specific niche >> >of being mostly used in intranet and/or smaller apps, but by having >> >general CMS/ecommerce app ala Mezzanine/Cartridge, the usage of the >> >framework could exponentially increase considering other 'pros' of the >> >framework. >> >> Personnally when I looked for a CMS build in web2py I didn't find >> anything generic and *simple *enough to build my customers websites. >> Then I decided to develop my own little CMS. (I think many other Web2py >> users are in the same case) >> I released the sources, here, but it seems that only a few people are >> interested in. (I received only one PR for a typo in a fixture file) >> >> So I think we have a lot of disorganized CMS apps, each used by a few of >> people, but (until now) nobody has accumulate enough contributors to >> compete with something like mezzanine. >> >> -- >> Resources: >> - http://web2py.com >> - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) >> - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) >> - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "web2py-users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > -- > Resources: > - http://web2py.com > - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) > - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) > - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "web2py-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/web2py/S9XmLRdmlD8/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
