“How about XX website building software?”
Presumably this is a topic often discussed by hundreds of thousands of small and medium-sized webmasters. Whether it is product forums such as Dedecms and Discuz, or in Baidu Tieba and Zhili, thousands of posts are generated every day asking questions. What do you care about when choosing a website building tool? It’s free, full-featured, easy to use, fast, and can make money... Of course we hope it is perfect, but such tools will not exist. Even world-class software like WordPress is still full of them. The voice of criticism.
As we all know, Kangsheng released a new product Discuz! At first glance, Discuz! However, doing everything means doing nothing. Such a behemoth is obviously not needed by ordinary websites.
Forced function packaging forces sites that were originally built solely for SNS to install BBS and CMS. Not to mention how difficult they are to use, if there are loopholes in these programs, it will really cost you and lose your troops. The forced uniformity of style may slow down the visual contrast when users switch pages, but it ignores that most netizens only care about the sections of the website that they are interested in. For example, many users go to ZOL to check quotes and do not enter its BBS. Similarly, active in Netizens on the IT168 forum did not all read the review articles on the main site. They achieved a unified style but lost their own characteristics. What’s even more frightening is that it forces business users to pay licensing fees for all sectors. The BBS that once only cost 3,000 yuan now costs as much as 38,000 RMB, a difference of more than ten times.
In fact, many CMS website building software such as Dedecms, phpCMS, and Dongyi have expanded from the original article manager to a "universal" tool that integrates articles, pictures, downloads, videos, etc., and they also want to be comprehensive and pervasive. Having more functions is what webmasters always pursue, but with so many functions, most websites are left idle. It is okay to say that building a website for individuals is free, but it is not worth it to spend a lot of money to build a website for enterprises. I have used PHP168 to build a website, and I feel that its modular approach is very good. At first, I just used the main program to build a news display website. Later, when the leader said that I wanted to add image and video columns, I installed two additional module files and it was completed. Although PHP168 also has many flaws, the flexibility brought by modularity is worthy of recognition.
The WordPress blog program has become popular in the world. In addition to its flexible and changeable templates, its plug-in expansion method also plays a role in fueling the trend. The program itself only has the function of publishing articles. By installing plug-ins, you can add functions of editing pictures, traffic analysis, and even online transactions. I've been paying attention to SNS systems recently. There is one called Thinksns that adopts a modular approach. Even logs and photo albums can be closed. I saw on another forum called iWebSNS that they seem to be modularizing their functions, which seems to be more thorough than Thinksns. , if this is the case, SNS websites no longer need to be subject to the built-in functions of the system, and can even evolve into other forms.
Looking at domestic website building software, except for a few products that are changing their thinking, most of them have become money-attracting tools for developers, with only licensing fees and service fees in mind. It is necessary for a set of website building software to have enough functions, but the use and configuration authority should be delegated to the webmaster. Everything cannot be fixed by the software. Modularization is the requirement of most websites.
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