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... If you're thinking about getting a website developed you may have faced this question yourself already -
Should I choose a main stream open source CMS, or should I choose a Custom Website?
Some will shout louder than an ocean liner in a bathroom (I seriously just made that up myself!) that an open source CMS is the way to go. More power to YOU! They are FREE! You can change your developer ANY TIME YOU WANT! There are thousands of modules and extensions developed already so you don't even have to pay for those!
To some degree they are right. On the surface, the above statements are correct. But - and it's a big hairy but... if it's all about YOUR business, and what YOU get out of it, is a free One-Size-Fits-All system all it's cracked up to be?
You see, the minute you want your website to fit your requirements, you need to do some customisation ... which is custom programming ... which is chargeable.
At that point, would you rather have someone doing the custom programming who knows the code for all functionality inside out? Or would you prefer to be paying for someone's time to research into how the code works before they even start customising? Depending on the extension, the developer may not even be able to change anything! ...
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