Express Guide: Learn Any Web Builder or Content Management System

Express Guide: Learn Any Web Builder or Content Management System

Copyright © 2017 by Martin (Chaim) Berlove

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ISBN 978-1-387-89225-9

Intro

A small business owner, a freelance web developer, and a technology hobbyist walk into a bar. They start talking, and have a vibrant conversation that lasts three beers, because they all share a complaint common to anyone who's put together a website: the market offers a lot of tools to make building websites fast and easy, and it can get annoying, frustrating, even baffling to pick the right one and learn it efficiently.

Some of these tools are newcomers, like PageKit. Others remain mainstream favorites, like Drupal and WordPress. Some have seen their best days pass by but still hang on, like DreamWeaver. Still others have carved their own unique niche, like Wix or RapidWeaver, choosing to aid a select subset of developers rather than trying to please the whole market.

These are just a few of the tools that are intended to make a developer's life easier, but sometimes actually make it more complicated. Who can hope to know every tool that's out there?

If you’re a small business owner, you have no time to sort through and pick and learn a tool just to find out it’s the wrong one for the job. Time is a precious commodity, and the heavy investment of learning a new tool