Re: Manual Coding vs. CMS Systems OT

Carlos Medina schreef:

Watch him go... there is Carloooooos, the man infront of all the others. He is WAY ahead, and he is gaining more and more speed. He is an adult, and he is sooooooo adult that he can't even take a laugh... see him run from the humor! Faster and faster he runs... and there it is: the goal: an open casket for the people going through life without having a good laugh every now and then :o)))) Aaaaaaanyhow... *grabs his coffee and keeps working while shaking his head because of the stupid comment posted by Carlos* Cheers :o))))

:-) Kids

yes I have one, so? did he build your website per chance? :-P btw: I have two handcoded cmses that I use to build sites with, a bunch of code 'snippets' used to handcode very small odd-ball sites with and I sometimes use an out of the box CMS if it suits me (but not Joomla) ... and I always end up having to hack some customization into them. as a developer it's not just about getting a quick result but aquiring a level of expertise that allows one to understand and create things at a professional level, things like CMSes (somebody actually writes them!) using validating, tableless xHTML layouts, valid CSS, secure server-side code, unobtrusive (and sometimes even gracefully degrading) javascript, etc, etc. the pond is getting smaller and smaller, eventually there won't be any room for people who can just about run the installer script of CMS X[tm] and barely hack out HTML. I plan to be getting paid still when that happens ... rewriting the installer script of CMS X[tm] perhaps.

Carlos