There are a lot of people in small businesses that are reliant on other people to change and update their website.
How many of them still send out their letter typing to be done by someone else?
The current generation websites, called ‘Content Management Systems’ or CMS for short, allow normal people to be able to quickly update, change and add functionality to websites themselves. There are now lots of CMS about.
Which CMS will win?
Typically, web people want the technical stuff to win (who doesn’t want to feel needed?). The users want the ease of use stuff to win.
From where we sit, we’ve seen ease of use always trumping over ‘high technology’. Microsoft didn’t have the best technology, it wasn’t the most secure, but it was easy to use and easy to develop on. So is Wordpress.
Whichever software gets the widest acceptance, then goes on to get even wider acceptance. The spiral happens because ease of use makes things quicker, and therefore less expensive. When it’s less expensive then more people do it, and when more people do it, the competition keeps costs down.
There is big change afoot, and rather than us re-hash it, you might want to watch this very neat summary.
The technology has to get out of the way, we have more important things to do. Nicely put.
November 2nd, 2009 at 12:49 pm
You’re so right, ease of use wins every time – UNLESS somebody makes an incredibly good case otherwise.
Anm incredibly good case would have to be benefits laden – that is USER benefits, things they really want, not what techies want to sell them.
So I don’t know enough to judge either way about CMS or wordpress, but I know enough about people to help them.