Content Managed Websites – Easily Update Your Website!
Custom Content Management System VS Open Source or in a box system
At My Net Services we build custom Content Management Systems with features tailored to suit the needs of your business. Unless requested by our client, we don’t use off the shelf or open source CMS products. A custom or bespoke solution is built completely from scratch. By our system being custom built, means its 100% scalable and can be modified to suit the requirements and changing needs of your business.
We take a lot of pride in ourselves on the way we custom-built every website and system that we produced for our clients over the last 10 years. The content management systems we use we have developed ourselves, using our own databases and code that was all written strictly by us.
The benefits to us and our clients are clear. With a system that we have developed ourselves, we are completely free to customise and develop them to each client’s exact requirements. If a client wants a particular feature, or needs their site or system to function in a specific way, we are able to do so because we wrote the system and can adapt it infinitely to what they need.
What’s more, because the websites and system we are building is entirely unique to us, its built to be very easy for our clients to use. To maintain and update your website we can give you all the flexibility you will need for your website to be always up to date.
This allows the owner to have infinite functionality within the site (given enough time and a flexible budget).
The main implication of a custom option, from a project management point of view, is that every aspect of the site has to be considered, designed, defined, developed and tested from the ground up. This allows the website owner to have infinite functionality within their website (given enough time and a flexible budget). If you have any questions, we will only be to happy to answer them so please give us a call.
Open Source or in a box CMS
An Open source CMS solution is developed using free code that has already been written by developers and shared within a community. The base CMS is usually free to use and they have lots of free or inexpensive add-ons and design templates that you can plug-in straight into the base content management system. This usually cuts down on the time required to develop a CMS Website as the code is freely available.
The limitations to this type of CMS are that, because these systems are built around specific frameworks, there are rules that need to be followed and restrictions to how the code can be used. Because of this compromises might have to be made and this can lead to having less than 100% of the functionality that you may originally required.
Another limitation is that you lose the intellectual property rights to your code because it wasn't rightfully yours to start with. Some of the biggest and widely used CMS systems are WordPress, Joomla and Magento. Even though they are used by many people they are far from perfect. They have many features that will not be used because they might not be relevant for every website that runs off of their platform. Most times these systems are big full of features that use standard plugins that are available for anyone how needs them. All this makes these types of CMS systems confusing to use to most people and sooner or later your website will soon lose it’s unique look and feel.
Open Source CMS Security
One of the biggest issues you will run into by using an open
source CMS is security. No mater of what type of open source
product you choose to use, you immediately open yourself to hackers
who will work on code vulnerabilities with the full knowledge of the
(freely available) source code of your site, then obviously they can
easily exploit it. On the flip side, supporters of open source
software will argue that the fact that many people can access the
source code means bugs and security holes are more likely to be
noticed, and fixed - whereas similar bugs may remain for years in
closed source code.