Open Source CMSs Dilute Service Quality (rant)

To the many open source web designers out there: Your sites are crap. To a slew of businesses built on open source CMSs: Your online presence sucks.

There. I said it. Now that I’ve got that out of the way here’s the obligatory paragraph of introduction:

The open source CMS world is booming. CMS communities empower millions of websites for small business owners, web designers, developers, marketing firms, IT departments, corporations, and governments. Everyday businesses use open source CMSs to do things that would not otherwise be possible for them. Everyday many web designers, developers, and marketing firms bill their clients for something they could not otherwise deliver without an open source CMS…at least at the budget it was delivered. Open source CMSs empower massive amounts of websites. To this point I say: AWESOME. However, with any type of empowerment yields issues that communities must navigate. This blog post will address one such issue: the service industry and how open source CMSs affect it.

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