Considering an Open Source CMS?

Many freelance web designers and small web design companies are considering using open source content management systems to improve what they can offer their clients.

If you have a client who loves your design work, but wants to be ble to edit their own pages, and you feel uncomfortable subcontracting the programming work, you may fall into this category.

You might be looking at Joomla and Drupal, two of the most widely used free content management systems. Both have plenty of plugins to cater for a huge range of technical requirements. For content only sites - blogs or news without ecommerce - Wordpress may have entered the discussion. And for complete ecommerce solutions, you may have come across OSCommerce or Zen Cart, or paid for software like Actinic or JShop.

All of these solutions have their pros and cons. All of them give you a lot of features straight out of the box. All can be hacked about to do what you want, and all have many online forums dedicated to them. But they all have learning curves of their own as well, some quite steep, and they will all require a sometimes substantial time investment, and perhaps some programming expertise, to install and configure them as desired.

Stockashop Designer is different. The only learning curve involves CSS and a group of checkboxes for turning on and off a range of content management and ecommerce features. It is already fully templated, using consistent and well commented HTML and CSS. Any features not already supported can be requested and will be reviewed.

Stockashop Designer is perfect for a web design company which wants to invest minimal time to find a affordable solution.

Pricing is very reasonable, and the sites you sell through Stockashop Designer can be very profitable. Please contact us if you are interested. Or come to meet us at one of our events in Shoreham.