- Written by
Colin
- Posted February 14, 2010 at 1:46 pm
Today, I found the “East Kilbride Promoter” on my floor when I was tidying this morning. On it was an advert for “Free Kickboxing Lesson” and being a wimp I thought I’d look in to it. There was a website address which should make it easier…NO CHANCE!
Joomla is a loaded gun
What we have is another website built in the pile of shit that is Joomla. Ok I take that back. I bet that Joomla is awesome in the right hands. The way I see it, open source CMS engines are like guns – in the wrong hands they are dangerous and so far the few websites that I have taken over this year have been built in Joomla and been murderous. Front end not working, back end not working, pages missing. Just a mess!
Standard People, PLEASE!
I harp on about this time and time again. In the web development and design industry, someone can pick up a book on a Friday and by the Monday set themselves up as a designer and developer. Am no designer, definitely not, but I can take ideas from other places and build quite good looking websites. And that’s quite easy. But you get people that think they can do both, and make a business out of it. What annoys me is, they do make a business out of it, and make money. But would you go to a dentist that was working out a market stall?
So why is it, in this day and age, and in an industry that few people know and even less understand, do we allow people to build crap website? Small companies now a days rely on business from the web, especially during the recession period.
If you buy something cheap, from someone that doesn’t actually have the creds to back it up, you can only expect shit. Doesn’t matter the price tag. Except the cheaper your site is, usually it looks cheap, feels cheap and works cheap.
I personally believe they should make professional exams compulsory for the programming world, especially now that people rely on their websites.
Rant over. (for now)
