Does it save a lot of time to use a CMS?

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I am learning PHP, AJAX, and SQL and have a long term goal of making a feature rich social website. I am leaning towards doing it from scratch because it will give me full control, seems a lot easier to debug, and I would feel better about security.

But I see people on the intertubes saying it would just be crazy to make such a website from scratch because it saves an enormous amount of time to use a CMS. I must admit that it seems handy that anytime I want a new feature, I can just grab a plug-in that is already written.

Experienced web developers, what is your experience? Is it a huge time sink to make a feature rich website from scratch?

Posted 28-Aug-10 2:32am

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#realJSOP · Answer 1 · 2010-08-28T03:28:00

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Why are you using php? Just go with asp.net/ajax/silverlight. That way, you can use just one dev tool for (and debug) everything. Believe me - it'll go a lot smoother.

Posted 28-Aug-10 3:28am

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ohffs 28-Aug-10 9:34am

Because I haven't learned them yet, that's all. But in that case, I could re-ask the question with those technologies. Would using a CMS for a feature rich website save a lot more time than making an ASP.NET site from scratch?

#realJSOP 29-Aug-10 7:50am

Well, if you already know those technologies, of course it would be faster. At the same time, I think it would be a lot more fun to do it all from scratch in asp.net...