Comments on: Know The Facts: Proprietary Vs Open Source In Real Estate Web Design

By: michael jones

michael jones — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:52:23 +0000

I just want to say one more tiime that all these is just wonderful and the info about the easy joomla tutorials is more than useful!

By: michael jones

michael jones — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:23:46 +0000

I am really glad that i have found that post and the info about the Joomla tutorials in it! Thank you so much!

By: Galen

Galen — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 18:46:54 +0000

Carson, you’ll find that a lot of proprietary applications are a little amateurish for master coders, but because they can’t see the code, they only know that they’re buggy and slow to respond.
Great pros and cons Jim. Estately is entirely open source, but we wouldn’t shy away from a closed source application if it was definitively better. It’s just that for blogging and building websites, open source solutions are great.

By: Carson

Carson — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:09:00 +0000

I work for a home builder in Houston, and I was attempting to explain why it is smart to develop our community site on Joomla…because it can be passed on and it is constantly improved and upgraded. This article explains it perfectly…
Right now we are feeling a bit hijecked because the company that made our site is slighty less responsive than before. If we were to try to switch now, we would really have a hard time finding a qualified person willing and able to take over such a complex site… Every web designer does it a little differently. Their coding is Top-notch though… but without them we are up a creek.
Some of the open source options are a little amaterish for master coders… but the cost and time-savings of out-of the box open-source solutions makes them extremely cool.

By: Angela Parker

Angela Parker — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:31:52 +0000

Thanks for a great breakdown of custom code vs. open source customization. I’m working with a real estate client right now to move from a custom site (which has expanded by leaps and bounds) to an independently hosted and customized WordPress site.
There are some challenges, but I think the final product will be easier for him to maintain without outside assistance (now THAT is a serious cost savings!) and it will be easier to organize and search his content-rich site (making it more user-friendly). I’ll be blogging on the challenges, the shortcomings, the solutions and the end result as they happen.
I love open source and think it’s wonderful that you have offered this outline for those who have never compared these two options.

By: Rhona Sutter

Rhona Sutter — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:10:27 +0000

Very interesting post and the way it is organized is so helpful to a very non-tech person like me. I now find that I read only a few selected Real Estate blogs (after all how much do you need to read about Zillow, Trulia, Redfin, etc?) and concentrate more on Tech Crunch and others like it so as to keep as up to date as possible regarding the points you addressed here.

By: Mary Pope-Handy

Mary Pope-Handy — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 05:41:15 +0000

What an immensely helpful post to someone like me who’s technically challenged. Kudos and thanks!