Advantages of custom web development compared to using popular CMS

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For some time now we have been receiving many queries from people who are interested in web design or maintenance of websites developed from prefabricated and widely used CMS, such as: Joomla, Wordpress design , Drupal, osCommerce, Prestashop online store design , ... and precisely this has always given us something to talk about with our clients or interested people, so we want to explain the differences, advantages and disadvantages of using these technologies with respect to custom web design .
At LA TEVA WEB we are not against the use of these technologies, which are also open source, but to a large extent, their widespread use on our part would make it difficult for us to offer the comprehensive web design services that we have successfully offered our clients for so many years. We must also say that, although most of the websites we create are designed and programmed to suit our clients, in certain projects we do rely on osCommerce thanks to our high level of experience and malaysia telegram data our own development based on this platform.

What are the differences between custom web development and the use of CMS or pre-built platforms?

An open source CMS generally consists of a pre-developed package that, when unzipped on the web server, has a configuration wizard thanks to which you can easily customize the design of the website and some extra functionality, so that in just a few minutes you have a website ready to start entering content through the management area that this tool provides to the user.

A custom-made web design starts completely from scratch and, depending on the client's needs, begins by specifying a web design with the client's participation, and then begins programming all the functionalities that have been specified with the client as the content is laid out.

Explained like this, it seems more effective to use a prefabricated CMS, since the time invested to have a page online is much less, and therefore, the base cost of the project should be lower. However, this is where the problems begin.

Disadvantages of using pre-installed platforms.

Web design

The design of the website is an important and decisive factor when it comes to making a user feel comfortable when browsing the website, where it is also important to capture the image that the company wants to give to users who enter the website. Well, adapting the web design to the needs of a company is much more expensive using a prefabricated CMS, since to do so, you have to tear apart and gut a multitude of files for which a web programmer who also has experience in web design is needed, and the time dedicated to this purpose will depend on the degree of familiarity that said worker has with the use of that specific platform. On the other hand, developing a project from scratch, you start by laying out the website following the design pattern that has been previously agreed with the client, thus generating a much cleaner, controlled and effective code to later be able to develop all the functionalities that the client needs.

Functionality

In the same way that when you install a CMS it usually comes with a standard design, the integrated content manager is very complex because it tries to contemplate the maximum number of available options so that the website adapts to the greatest number of possible types of website (shop, blog, CRM, newsletter...). So, functionally it is very good, but when it comes to managing the content it is very likely that most of these options are not used, or that the administrator of the page is forced to fill in unnecessary fields so that the data is displayed correctly, therefore the administration of the page is usually quite difficult for the client to understand. On the other hand, if the client needs to manage a type of elements that has not been contemplated in said CMS there are two options: either look for a management module for the platform used (such as a plugin) that contemplates what the client needs (this is usually difficult), or develop a new module for which an advanced programmer would have to intervene, since development under this platform requires a great internal knowledge of it.