CMS Advice I Find Around

I just received another email from a popular site that wanted to inform me about setting up a web site.  They said:

• There are three ways to start a web site


• Pay a designer


• Buy a template


• Write your own with HTML

This is somewhat true, but their conclusion was that you should just write your own websites and they had several reasons why, mostly doing with having more control.

While it is true you can do what you want, it is also a lot of work to put up links and do everything by hand.  

I have a site now I need to add some pages to, but it has just become such a chore that I don’t wan to do it.  So several months have gone by and I still have not put up the pages that I want just because of all the extra trouble of writing everything myself.

If you’re doing a 1 or 2 page site sure go for it.  But realistically with one or two pages you’re going to get 1 or 2 visitors and make next to nothing.

If you could write some brilliant words that were 100 times better than everyone else’s then this would probably work for you, but all the people I have seen who are making money on the internet have 15,000 pages up, or 25,000 or 50,000 pages.

Now when you’re trying to hard code in links, graphics and everything else for 50 pages it is a ton of work.  I can’t even imagine 1000 pages by hand. I have never seen it done, and there is probably a good reason for that.

With some good CMS software you spend no time with your site and 100% of your time on content.  I can publish to blogger.com using Microsoft word in about 2 or 3 seconds.

This 2 or 3 seconds stays constant, no matter how many pages I have.  When you’re writing HTML your self, each additional page increases your work load.  If you’re linking to your main page, and to a site map page then you start out spending 30 seconds for the first page than add about 10 or 20 seconds for each additional page.

When you get to 10,000 pages I don’t even know how to figure what kind of time it would take to keep something like this going, and try to make sense of a site map.