| If you're still stuck up with the good old thinking that | | | | open source CMS is that they're fully customizable. |
| nothing comes free of cost, probably it's about time | | | | As a result, in case you need to add a few other |
| you gave it a second thought and discovered the | | | | functionalities, which are not available in the current |
| goodness of the Open Source CMS. As a matter of | | | | version of the software, can be easily added by |
| fact, most of the popular CMS used by majority of | | | | putting in relatively less amount of efforts. Moreover, |
| the online users, who run their websites, happen to | | | | extensive documentation and online help via |
| be Open Source, and only a few out of the lot still | | | | community forums can come in handy to get rid of |
| prefer to resort to the Custom Content Management | | | | any of your issues, during development. |
| Systems. | | | | On the other hand, the custom based CMS don't |
| Basically, today you would require a Custom CMS in | | | | offer this flexibility, and cost a good amount of |
| very rare cases - precisely, the need arises only | | | | money too. Even otherwise, once you get one of |
| when you need a content management system, | | | | the custom CMS made by a web developer, |
| which is totally different from the available ones. This | | | | accommodating additional requirements is again quite |
| would apply only in cases of online portals, and | | | | painful. Moreover, the developer who had done the |
| managing those websites that don't really deal with | | | | initial part of the web development , becomes your |
| usual text editing. | | | | best bet, though he may demand unreasonable rates |
| However, considering the normal scenario, the | | | | this time around. |
| necessity of a custom CMS is really out of | | | | One of the biggest downsides of a custom CMS is |
| everyone's cards. This is mainly due to the fact like | | | | the time required for the development, not to |
| legendary open source CMS such as Wordpress, | | | | mention the high cost of implementation. So, if you |
| CushyCMS, Drupal, Joomla and the likes of them | | | | want to launch a big web-project within a very short |
| gaining extremely high levels of popularity over time. | | | | span of time, the chances are high that the |
| The first and the foremost benefit of using these | | | | corresponding custom CMS may not be complete. |