Funny you mentioned this. My clients recently had no need of a CMS as they wanted my own firm to handle the changes. We built a very simple application on ASP.Net 6 Razor Pages.
It took half the time and and only 2 part-time Devs than if we had implemented Umbraco. Then we had a requirement to update new projects quicker than our standard TAT.
We only put in the needed forms and customisation for the client's Projects. And he was happy to roll on his own.
He loves the simplicity. All his fields are there. He gets what he wants. As someone wise once said.... Nessescary but sufficient and no more.
I agree that CMSs are fine systems. Just needs a bit of foresight to take the decision not to use them. One just needs to retain the capacity to switch into them quickly for larger projects.
Funny you mentioned this. My clients recently had no need of a CMS as they wanted my own firm to handle the changes. We built a very simple application on ASP.Net 6 Razor Pages.
It took half the time and and only 2 part-time Devs than if we had implemented Umbraco. Then we had a requirement to update new projects quicker than our standard TAT.
We only put in the needed forms and customisation for the client's Projects. And he was happy to roll on his own.
He loves the simplicity. All his fields are there. He gets what he wants. As someone wise once said.... Nessescary but sufficient and no more.
I agree that CMSs are fine systems. Just needs a bit of foresight to take the decision not to use them. One just needs to retain the capacity to switch into them quickly for larger projects.
Yep, I had a lot of clients in the past that "wanted" a CMS, yet for every little change the would still email me, if I could not just do it for them.
Really makes you wonder why I used a CMS in the first place.
It does cut down on so much dev time.