Reasons Why Nigerians Love Cms, Plugins And Frameworks A Lot - Webmasters

In response to this thread: http://www.nairaland.com/2287661/why-nigerians-love-cms-plugins

It is good to note that it's not only Nigerians that love CMS, Framwork or Plugins. It's a global phenomenon.

The point is DON'T EVER RE-INVENT THE WHEEL!
Unless there is something outrighly different [/b]you want to offer.
CMS or Framework is not a bad idea.

If you have ever used Microsoft Word to type a letter, then you have used a CMS.
If you have ever used Photoshop to crop your picture, then you have used a CMS.

Just imagine developing your own Word Editor like MS Word just to type a letter.

The problem we should be looking at is: [b]Our inability to make CMS, Framework or plugins better.
We should not just use wordpress and joomla basically. We should learn how to unleash the powers of wordpress and joomla by forking them and turning them around to achieve amazing things.

Mashable.com was using wordpress. Mashable is one of the biggest blogs in the world. It was later that they developed a custom cms for their blog.

New York Times blog is running on A CMS (wordpress). The official website of the government of USA is running on a CMS (drupal).

Even facebook (http://newsroom.fb.com/), google (http://www.gv.com/), mozilla (https://blog.mozilla.org/), and blackberry (http://blogs.blackberry.com/) are using a CMS (wordpress) in their blogs. Why didn't they develop a blog cms for their blogs? That will not important since there is a good one on ground.

Here are 22 GREAT WEBSITES running on a CMS (wordpress):
http://techcrunch.com/
http://www.newyorker.com/
http://www.bbcamerica.com/
http://variety.com/
http://www.sonymusic.com/
http://www.beyonce.com/
http://blog.ebay.com/
http://blog.us.playstation.com/
http://www.blogs.xerox.com/
http://www.bata.com/
http://stores.bestbuy.com/577/
http://qz.com/
http://product.espn.com/
http://lumiaconversations.microsoft.com/
https://social.ford.com/content/fordsocial/en/home-page.html
http://fortune.com/
http://newsroom.fb.com/
http://marksandspencerforbusiness.com/
http://www.gv.com/
https://hbr.org/
http://larrykinglive.blogs.cnn.com/
http://blogs.blackberry.com/

NOW THE BIG ONE!!!

30 Insanely Awesome Websites using WordPress as a CMS
SEE THE AWESOME WEBSITES HERE: http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/awesome-websites-wordpress-as-a-cms/

What I will challenge every web developer in Nigeria is to learn the in and out, hooks and functions of some of these CMSes and start developing themes, templates and plugins for them.

As technology evolves, web development will continue to be easier. It will amount to taking people back to the stone age to insist on coding from scratch for every project.
Thank you.

source: http://www.nairaland.com/2288038/reasons-why-nigerians-love-cms