Custom Site Design or Third-Party Software
Sooner or later, you must decide what software your site will be running. Before taking the plunge into custom design and coding, it makes sense to evaluate what’s available in terms of third-party software. Many quality open source software packages are worth exploring.
The following subsection discusses things you should consider when employing a custom design, followed by a section detailing some of the popular free and paid software packages available today.
Employing Custom Development
Software takes time to design, develop, and properly test. It may be your best option if nothing on the market fits your online software requirements. Taking the route of custom development has its advantages and disadvantages.
Benefits of custom development
In this context, when I talk about custom software I am talking about the design and architecture of dynamic sites or web applications. Developing a custom solution allows you to produce a web application exactly to your specifications. If designed properly, custom web applications provide an extra level of security against hackers who typically prey on popular software. In this sense, being unique is an advantage.
From an SEO perspective, custom application development could be advantageous—if you consider SEO when you start designing your software and architecture. In this case, you have full control over the application architecture and can make the provisions necessary to support various on-page and ...
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