The days of paying over-priced web developers to deliver simple interactive websites is over. With the recent growth of open source technologies, such as Drupal and Wordpress (this site is a WordPress website), we can develop sites in a fraction of the time and cost of a traditional website.

From the plethora of themes, functions, plug-ins, widgets, and other fun website tools offered through these completely free software platforms, we can customize websites as if developed from scratch. The difference is the time it takes and the amount of code that can be sampled. Here’s an analogy. Imagine if you wanted to build a brand new car yourself. Chances are you’d never actually do that, but lets say you had the ambition. Would you literally machine all of the parts of the car, or would you go to a parts store and buy them? You’d go to the store. Now, you bring all of those parts home with you and you assemble them in your own garage. Of course, you need to know how they go together and work together. But, at least you don’t have to know how to run a lathe and micrometer.

Once you have the chassis put together and the engine block assembled, you start to choose the finishing touches. Color, layout, bells and whistles, etc. The car runs like a top. And, you pieced it together in a fraction of the time.

Open source software solutions like Drupal, stem from a global community of website developers that are motivated to provide the best code possible (while getting some recognition for their work) and sharing their skills with each other. The programmers are extremely talented people learning from each other as they submit projects to the community. The benefactors of all of their works, are those that choose to use the programs they’ve written for the community, like us.

TotalScope Marketing has produced a dozen or so websites, as of this date, using both Drupal and WordPress. Each have their advantages and disadvantages, but both are high quality platforms. Drupal is great for building highly interactive websites, that incorporate web 2.0 principles in a modular fashion. Wordpress is one of the best softwares for setting up blogging sites and simple promotional sites.

Have a look at some of the webistes that we’ve put together and are currently working on. Each has been built using these open source platforms and each was done quickly with a relatively low cost. If you are looking to have a high quality, low cost, and quickly built site, consider employing one of these technologies, or contact us, and we’ll help YOU do it.