i just want to know what you guys think about this... seems like every website nowadays uses a CMS. i very rarely see one that is all freehand coded from scratch without some sort of outside software being used. in a way, people aren't learning actual web design, they are learning how to customize the CMS they use. it's kinda sad to see web design taking such a drastic change, i'm afraid it will eventually lead to all websites being a carbon copy of one another.
Has CMS taken over web design?
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Yeah, you're right, every site uses a CMS. And if it uses HTML/CSS/JavaScript then you catch hell over it(as a developer).
A lot of new sites are using CMS's because they have download content that can be easily managed by the CMS. And a CMS keeps the user engaged more than a regular HTML site. With a CMS you can actually start a user base and make the users login to view info, forums, downloads, etc.
Every site is probably gonna end up with Joomla! or Drupal. I like Joomla! best and I think the ones written in ASP, Java, and Perl are going to die. PHP is way more practical for web usage than those languages. And the ASP CMS's have got to be really heavy anyway, Java and Perl not so much, but Java has to have an applet.
g4m3rof1337
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Well, someone has to create the templates and add-ons for the CMS platform. I personally use Joomla! for my businesses site, and love it, it integrates the user database, makes it look professional, and it's very organized/clean.
tlarkin
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This goes back to every ancient argument over technology. I bet cave men once argued over what sort of flint made better fire, or like people who refuse to acknowledge that peddle shifters are faster than a stick.
A CMS is where it is at man. Every and any good website should be database driven. CMS will change everything and here is the best part about CMS. It appeals to the most advanced user and it appeals to the novice. It can change your life when it comes to web development.
My friend, who is a web developer by profession, exclusively uses drupal. He builds sites for people using drupal, and built in modules along with his own home brewed coding, as well as his original graphic design work. He can built them fast and efficiently and drupal allows the owner of the site maintain it and update it with out having to bother him for everything. Then when they want tweaks or major over hauls they can call him and contract him out again for another job.
My website is built off of drupal. I installed it in about 5 minutes and was already creating content. You don't have to use their prebuilt system or product, you can make it your own.
Look at CMS this way, it is not a full blown solution to web development. Instead it is a framework, which you have the ability to tweak or completely overhaul with that frame work still being there under the hood. In another regard you can take that frame work and just add a bit of CSS and you got yourself a custom built site based off of that CMS's framework.
A CMS is where it is at man. Every and any good website should be database driven. CMS will change everything and here is the best part about CMS. It appeals to the most advanced user and it appeals to the novice. It can change your life when it comes to web development.
My friend, who is a web developer by profession, exclusively uses drupal. He builds sites for people using drupal, and built in modules along with his own home brewed coding, as well as his original graphic design work. He can built them fast and efficiently and drupal allows the owner of the site maintain it and update it with out having to bother him for everything. Then when they want tweaks or major over hauls they can call him and contract him out again for another job.
My website is built off of drupal. I installed it in about 5 minutes and was already creating content. You don't have to use their prebuilt system or product, you can make it your own.
Look at CMS this way, it is not a full blown solution to web development. Instead it is a framework, which you have the ability to tweak or completely overhaul with that frame work still being there under the hood. In another regard you can take that frame work and just add a bit of CSS and you got yourself a custom built site based off of that CMS's framework.
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I totally agree with you. I have never used Drupal but does the way the code is organized differ from Joomla?
Err, CMS's only make sites easy to maintain. All's it is a content management system (C-M-S).
Only automated sites that are usually powered by WordPress can be carbon-copies by pulling data from RSS and automatically posting it...
CMS is the same as handing-coding, but it affects pages that templates are assigned to, making the changes global. I'd rather have a CMS than have to manually edit thousands of pages when changing a design or content etc.. -.-
Only automated sites that are usually powered by WordPress can be carbon-copies by pulling data from RSS and automatically posting it...
CMS is the same as handing-coding, but it affects pages that templates are assigned to, making the changes global. I'd rather have a CMS than have to manually edit thousands of pages when changing a design or content etc.. -.-
we all know what a CMS is and what it does, you aren't enlightening anyone.
they are clearly different from traditional styles of web design, and if you had any experience or knowledge of the subject you wouldn't be debating this.
*edit* ah he was banned. it was only a matter of time, that guy was a jerk
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Fatback
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I didnt know what CMS was until i saw this post i was about to use Google
lol this thread is 8 months old and DirtyD86 is banned.