In the past, websites were generally built with custom development, which requires high technical skills, and the code is not easy to reuse and maintain by others. For CMS, there is really no need for custom development, because CMS does not have many basic functions. Functions should be reused. Joomla is a complete CMS, and its biggest feature is its good scalability.
Why is joomla said to have good scalability? As long as you go to the official website of joomla and look for the component installation package, you will see that there are thousands of components available for installation, and they all implement their own functions. If you need to add a function to your CMS, you can first find the installation package before development, which will save a lot of effort. There are many people who develop component installation packages for joomla. This is also because joomla has a good structure and the installation package is easy to develop. Joomla does not have many default function implementations. Joomla is more like a program base layer. All programs are built on this base layer. Each small program builds a highly functional website. Even if you don't use a third-party installation package, making your commonly used functions into a component installation package can reuse code very well and prevent development from reinstalling. From the user's perspective, Joomla is like a desktop system. It can install various application software to enrich the functions of the website, which makes people feel so fun.
Joomla has a good structure, so as long as you are proficient in joomla, it is easy to maintain a joomla site. No matter how good the custom-written things are, maintainability is always a problem. I don’t think any boss wants a system that only one programmer can understand.
For the construction of small and medium-sized websites such as CMS and BBS, custom development is no longer the mainstream. The new era requires websites to require higher development efficiency, so development based on complete systems will occupy the majority. market. At present, more and more website development companies in China are conducting secondary development based on existing open source systems, because this means that the products will have higher quality and development efficiency.
There are also many CMSs in China, and they are all very easy to use, no worse than joomla. For example, dedecms is fully static. Joomla cannot yet make a fully static website, so the access efficiency is not as good as dedecms. Although dedecms also has module installation, there are not necessarily people who make modules for dedecms. I have never used dedecms, but it is probably because the structure of dedecms is not universal enough or domestic programmers are not in the habit of writing installation packages for open source. Anyway, foreigners have already built such a good system, why not use it?
The value of a WEB programmer does not entirely lie in his knowledge of many technologies, but in whether he can complete the project faster while meeting customer needs.