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Are You Having Trouble Choosing A Web Site Platform?
Long, long ago, when the web was young, it was far easier to decide on how to build a web site. Open up notepad, or if you were a pro, a more coding-friendly raw text editor, and have at it. There were no 4th generation application development environments, no hosting providers with 8 separate site-builders on board, and the Content Management System (CMS) was still part of some distant and obscure future. Blogging hadn't even been invented. An electronic community? That was the domain of the BBS (Bulletin Board System) SysOp. Running on DOS. Often on a dialup connection. What a difference a dozen-odd years makes! It only recently occured to me that I was using quite a few platforms to build my sites, so I decided to take inventory and count them up (it's a curse, being an accountant sometimes) The results are almost scary. I am using 12 separate development platforms with a couple more under review. In no particular order of importance, they are: Joomla - Arguably the largest CMS in use today
WordPress - Again, arguably the most popular blogging platform
Blogger - Another blogging platform
Postnuke - A fork off one of the earliest of CMS platforms - PHPNuke
MediaWiki - The platform that lies underneath huge sites like wikipedia and wikihow
Memberspeed - A proprietary Marketing CMS
Niches-In-A-Box - A proprietary niche marketing web platform
Drupal - A popular CMS and rival to Joomla
Niche Video Sitebuilder - A Video Site development platform
vBulletin - The most widely used proprietary forum platform
SMF - Simple Machines Forum - A huge open-source forum platform
Web Wyvern - An in-house CMS targeting entry-level users Why am I using so many different tools? Simple. One size NEVER fits all. If I need a forum, I generally use Fireboard, totally integrated into the Joomla CMS - simple, elegant, powerful. If I want a "standalone" forum, I move up to SMF - simply the most robust and secure, yet open-source forum available. If it's for a site that has a ton of visibility and needs to scale, it's silly to mess with anything but vBulletin. On the e-community side of things, there are times when raw power is required. Drupal comes in handy. For everyday community sites, nothing beats Joomla - especially when you're looking for that special widget (2,500 extensions and counting). For the QND (quick n dirty) site that still requires more power than a simple Dreamweaver site can handle, Web Wyvern is tops. Special needs take special tools, and MediaWiki for collaborative editing sites, Niches-In-A-Box for specialized niche web sites and Niche Video Sitebuilder for a near-instant video presence are the platforms of the day. The bottom line is that you should think very carefully about matching your tools and platform to the task at hand. It's easy to fall into the rut of using what's most comfortable. What you know already. I've been there and done that. Today's tools suggest a different path. Developing your skills (or bringing aboard those who possess them) in some of these arenas is a powerful business move. |
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