When a software(or SaaS/PaaS/any other jargon) company advertises that their product is FULLY customizable even for those people with no IT background, I, as the consumer, would expect the product to be fairly easily customizable.
So when I download all of the source code for all of the pages/modules/databases, why would it take 3300 edits on just the pages to change ONE title. WHY was ONE variable not carried throughout the entire site so that if someone didn't like the title, they could change it ONE time? WHY??? Hard-coding is the OPPOSITE of customizable.
Every other second I get the urge to lay waste to this monstrosity of a platform and create a new one from scratch. But then I stop and realize it would take months to include all of nice functions already available. Then I think, well, someone else must have already thought of this problem and DID create their own. Then I search all of the other providers and find that they're all the same.
And so I battle on, tediously changing the structure that supports the entire platform while hoping I don't forget one simple semi-colon or dollar sign and mess everything up.
So when I download all of the source code for all of the pages/modules/databases, why would it take 3300 edits on just the pages to change ONE title. WHY was ONE variable not carried throughout the entire site so that if someone didn't like the title, they could change it ONE time? WHY??? Hard-coding is the OPPOSITE of customizable.
Every other second I get the urge to lay waste to this monstrosity of a platform and create a new one from scratch. But then I stop and realize it would take months to include all of nice functions already available. Then I think, well, someone else must have already thought of this problem and DID create their own. Then I search all of the other providers and find that they're all the same.
And so I battle on, tediously changing the structure that supports the entire platform while hoping I don't forget one simple semi-colon or dollar sign and mess everything up.
posted by Bruhaha at 9:32 AM
4 Comments:
once again, you lost me. But it sounds complicated
can't you just search and replace that shit?
if dreamweaver didn't crash and/or mess up every time I attempted to do that, then yes, I could. When dealing with over 3400 different pages, it'd be nice to have some of the repeated items easily customizable in one spot, not 3400.
bruno.. i think you need a shot of jager or something. maaaaaan you just gave me headache trying to understand that
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