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<blockquote data-quote="Cergorach" data-source="post: 4175068" data-attributes="member: 725">Another very good reason why you shouldn't write your own CMS is because somewhere down the line you might decide to sell the site or let another organisation run it. Then someone else will have to deal with the mess you made ;-)I'm currently helping out a small organisation, they have a couple of websites, all of them run different CMS software. One of those CMSes is custom written (in 2005), the person who made it isn't with the organisation anymore (hasn't been for a long time), and now folks want to use new technologies with the website. I have to find out how it works, and hope I can fulfil those requests. The other sites use CMSes that range from very user friendly to extremely user unfriendly (someone thought that she was entering a new article, but instead deleted a section of the site). I'm currently very tempted to, and might eventually be forced to, just implement another CMS (and if at all possible use it with all the sites they own).Drupal is a very good choice btw!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cergorach, post: 4175068, member: 725"] Another very good reason why you shouldn't write your own CMS is because somewhere down the line you might decide to sell the site or let another organisation run it. Then someone else will have to deal with the mess you made ;-) I'm currently helping out a small organisation, they have a couple of websites, all of them run different CMS software. One of those CMSes is custom written (in 2005), the person who made it isn't with the organisation anymore (hasn't been for a long time), and now folks want to use new technologies with the website. I have to find out how it works, and hope I can fulfil those requests. The other sites use CMSes that range from very user friendly to extremely user unfriendly (someone thought that she was entering a new article, but instead deleted a section of the site). I'm currently very tempted to, and might eventually be forced to, just implement another CMS (and if at all possible use it with all the sites they own). Drupal is a very good choice btw! [/QUOTE]

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