The evolution of modern webdesign
What happened to the times where webdesign stood for making website in HTML with Wordpad or similar text editors? Webdesigners could charge their clients ten thousands of dollars for a single website. Few people could making good looking websites and to apply things as flash banners was unheard of and required a person that code write a decent code.
Even a few years ago when CMS webdesign started designing websites became very easy but a lot of people still held on to what the knew and a nowadays famous CMS system like Joomla was new and many people thought bad about it, calling it cheap because of the Open Source. When webdesigners used CMS, then they preferred their own CMS which they could call special. Because of it being a private system they could charged their clients a few hundred bucks a year for using their CMS.
Well, those times are over! Everyone involved in webdesign knows by now that a system like Joomla is way more handy and the choice of free modules, plugins and components to choose from is that overwhelming that any private CMS system is no competition at all for Joomla. Also the prices they have to charge people are to high because of the development of their systems that they can’t compete with people using Open Source systems. 80% of potential clients call or mail at least four or five webdesigners before making a choice. Specially with the economy not being very well, people are looking for a cheap website, or at least an affordable site. So asking a $1000 for a website is like suicide, they will fall without clients where the competition I’d say charge only about $300, at least the cheapest that make still decent websites.
Although Drupal was going for a time neck to neck with Joomla, it’s certainly loosing ground now, mainly because their back-end is that as understandable as Joomla’s. Ok it might be the best, but it is too hard to operate for the average person. Wordpress is doing fine,specially for the bloggers it is a good and easy to handle system. But lately I am most impressed by the Joomla webdesign and template builders for Joomla like Rockettheme are amazing. Their Gantry back-end is given a webdesigner and even their clients such timesaving options to modify the whole template’s CSS, it is hard to believe they will go on improving this system. Ok, it is maybe not that easy at first sight but if you use it for a while it all comes clear.
My opinion is that it wasn’t necessary to develop a new Joomla 1.6 as 1.5 is on top of all other systems, why change a winning formula is the question. Ok, they have the RTM version know, but try to get your hands an a template, there are none. Well, so they say you can modify a 1.5 template into a 1.6 one. Indeed you can but this is a very hard job, which not so many people can achieve. The same you can say for the modules and plugins for Joomla 1.6, there is no legacy plugin as before with the change from 1.0 to 1.5. Where are all the extensions for Joomla webdesign version 1.6? Right, there are none.
This article was written by Robin Assie who has a website at website laten maken
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