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I have been offered a small job, more like a project which includes the development of an efficient, big, fully dynamic portal including newsletters, forum, chatting, news, places to visit, maps and much much more. I was thinking myself, is it better to start it from scratch developping the back-end and front-end all alone (I am fairly good at php, no problem with that) OR should I choose an "off-the selve" solution and try to midofy to meet expacations and requirements? Something like phpnuke or Drupal which I know fairly well as well. The first way will be much more time consuming and I will be forced to charge my clients more, on the other hand, the other solution will be quicker to implement and cheaper. I personally prefer the first one but I dont have time to code all this stuff, however, I always like challenges and this is a perfect project for me...I also know that I can use something like drupal which can handle fairly good medium-weight portals. Hard to decide. Waht would you do fellow programmers?
Waiting for your points of view!
Thx in advance for your time commenting my dilemma!
I know Joomla ia a cms that includes ALMOST everything, however, the point here is time, if I had the time I would develop the whole thing from the start on my own, unfortunately this is not feasible especially at this time (lots of projects around). Ok, Joomla is good, but includes much more functionality than I or client need, I think I am going for Drupal which is less complicated yet powerfull enough. Thank you anyway!
