http://www.iantruscott.me/vs-build-it#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Hi, a few thoughts about our industry, content management, social media and engaging over the web… Sat, 17 Jul 2010 14:35:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.iantruscott.me/vs-build-it/comment-page-1#comment-37 James H Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:51:45 +0000 http://www.persuasivecontent.com/?p=197#comment-37 Good post Ian. I think you're right that the original poster is largely lamenting a poor experience in working with an Open Source solution/s. Having spent a fair few years working with proprietary CMS solutions I have be using an Open Source solution a lot in the last year. On the whole that has been a very satisfying experience and I've often been surprised how good some of capabilities are but when you do get issues it can be an extremely frustrating experience wrestling with limited or poor documentation and navigating the communities to find answers. In some instances you do get the sense that it would be easier to pull together your own solution as at least you'd have a better understanding of what's under the covers. However, I think this is a reflection of these solutions being less mature than many of the proprietary ones that have histories dating back into the 90s and that the emphasis is often very much on the coding rather than the documentation that would help make the solutions more understandable for less technical people and therefore easier to use. Good post Ian. I think you’re right that the original poster is largely lamenting a poor experience in working with an Open Source solution/s. Having spent a fair few years working with proprietary CMS solutions I have be using an Open Source solution a lot in the last year. On the whole that has been a very satisfying experience and I’ve often been surprised how good some of capabilities are but when you do get issues it can be an extremely frustrating experience wrestling with limited or poor documentation and navigating the communities to find answers. In some instances you do get the sense that it would be easier to pull together your own solution as at least you’d have a better understanding of what’s under the covers. However, I think this is a reflection of these solutions being less mature than many of the proprietary ones that have histories dating back into the 90s and that the emphasis is often very much on the coding rather than the documentation that would help make the solutions more understandable for less technical people and therefore easier to use.

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