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Never Fall for a Custom CMS. Ever.

Sat, 05/31/2014 - 05:47 -- rprice

There is NO benefit to you in being talked into using a custom CMS which is hosted and controlled by a web development shop. DO NOT AGREE TO THIS. EVER. We’re seeing this again and again: an earnest client is talked into letting a web development shop build their site on an in-house CMS, which the dev shop hosts. It’s an “end-to-end” solution, they’re told. It’s all a myth. I’m going to go one step further: Any web development shop that tries to talk you into this is being reckless or naive at best. At worst, they’re being unethical.