When I was doing websites for customers (rarely do that anymore), I always went the CMS route since some content ALWAYS changes. The most important realization for me was:
Customers tended to say, they want to update site content themselves. Thus I developed a lot of sites using Joomla, since it offers WYSIWYG editing. But creating a good template for Joomla allowing easy extension and editing is tough and time consuming/expensive.
A few months after training them on the CMS they always came back asking me to do the edits. Some even did not have the credentials for the backend anymore or had no idea how to do anything in there.
My conclusion:
I tell/told customers that they will possibly never edit the site themselves and enabling a CMS to do so makes the initial project a lot more expensive. The calculation is that it is cheaper to let me do the edits and charge by the hour.
I then use OctoberCMS, which is easily customizable/themeable to the customers wishes and offers me easy editing (requires some HTML/CSS) and maintenance, when I need to.
Result: Happy customer, happy developer.
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When I was doing websites for customers (rarely do that anymore), I always went the CMS route since some content ALWAYS changes. The most important realization for me was:
Customers tended to say, they want to update site content themselves. Thus I developed a lot of sites using Joomla, since it offers WYSIWYG editing. But creating a good template for Joomla allowing easy extension and editing is tough and time consuming/expensive.
A few months after training them on the CMS they always came back asking me to do the edits. Some even did not have the credentials for the backend anymore or had no idea how to do anything in there.
My conclusion:
I tell/told customers that they will possibly never edit the site themselves and enabling a CMS to do so makes the initial project a lot more expensive. The calculation is that it is cheaper to let me do the edits and charge by the hour.
I then use OctoberCMS, which is easily customizable/themeable to the customers wishes and offers me easy editing (requires some HTML/CSS) and maintenance, when I need to.
Result: Happy customer, happy developer.