Aria Rajasa’s Blog

I’ve just notice recently that there are a lot more Joomla! sites popping around in Indonesia from news sites like the competitor of detik: Okezone.com to an online book store selling amazon’s merchandise called juraganbuku.com. All of this is possible by combining Joomla! with various components and modules that you can easily get from their . You just have to know where to look.

It’s quite a joy to see this all those sites using Joomla. Rajasa.com itself is uses Joomla! to make their site and also develop websites using Joomla! as it’s core. But Joomla! is just a tool, like Wordpress, Drupal, etc. How good you are with your tools will definitely determine the end result of your doing.

Please be reminded that tools alone cannot make you king in your industry, and I learn that the hard way. I can teach you how to make a better okezone.com in 5 minutes, but there’s more to that then the site alone like good reporters, writers and editors to fill it with good stories, the designer to make the design (although I believe they could do a better job than that), marketing to socialize it through radios and TVs. That alone makes it a lot more complicated than it seems.

A colleague of mine ask me to build him an exact copy of okezone.com, and like I said to you guys before, I told him that I could make it before the end of the day, but can you manage your content nicely, socialize it, and lastly: have the funds to do all that (including paying me of course). If he didn’t have what it takes, then I recommend taking a detour on his current marketing plan.
I had clients with great vision for their websites, with big funds, but less planning. In a couple of months, most of the sites was abandoned. Contents aren’t updated frequently, lack of quality in updates, and more reasons that I can’t really say here.
All I wanna say is that with the current technology, making websites is easy, maintaining it is the hard part.

written by Kuy