Hello.

I would like to know your opinions on where is web design / web development going...

With all the great tools and technologies in today's world that let you creat beautiful websites without you having to know a bit of html, css, js, php, etc... Wordpress and Joomla being the most used. These CMSs have caused websites prices to drop like crazy since anyone can just come up with a great looking site for a customer.

I love to create things from scratch and learn along the way but, lately I've been thinking is not worth spending so much time on a site creating the design, layout, coding, create the database and it's tables, and the rest of the process needed to create a complex site.

I've never used WP or Joomla in the past since most templates have the same layout and look practically the same but, now I'm inclined to learn more about them.

What you think is the best way to create sites (from scratch or CMS) and why?

Thanks for your time.

    Choose a CMS and get to nkow that well. Then you'll have a good base to start from. Whenever PhP / MySql updates, there will be an update for your CMS. You can create great templates if you know the software well. Also, you can then spend your skills on building the things that need custom-coding, rather than being horribly expensive because you want to build all yourself.

    I wrote a CMS in 2002-2003 for 2 of my sites. The second is going over to wordpress in a couple of weeks, because there is so much good stuff available; No need to have my own scripts for managing a picture album, code-preview etc

    Note however: You might want to write/alter a few modules yourself, such as the way posts (messages) are handled etc. as a lot of the existing cms have been found out, and bots can post to them,

      ditto to the above, while i have written several over the decade i would not bother any more there's so many good ones out there, and one persons effort will never compare to a community project well maintained.

        Oh, by the way: Building the CMS was the best thing I could have done to learn PhP, as you will have to do just about everything you need on a day-to-day basis for your site. So.. If you really ar just starting, trying to grab such a project (Naturally: Piece by piece!) is a good way to teach yourself

          I use my own cms, built about 6 years ago and then rebuilt 2 years ago on a proper page heirarchy scheme - works for me

          I recently had a few people say they don't want to give a site to me, as they want an open source, well known cms, so they can get anyone to update it
          (seems there's people who build sites and disappear)

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