Thursday, February 23, 2012

Compare Us

Compare a true business site from Opstreams versus a traditional website. The difference? We create an online business for you, not simply a website that does little to enhance your profits or customer experience. Our Joomla framework has become the gold standard of the industry, running 3% of the entire web, and we've been doing Joomla and Drupal exclusively since they first went public. The result for you? A site that will easily change with you as the technology and your business model changes, that will not grow obsolete, and that is easy to keep fresh because it's user-modifiable with no technical barriers.

In the chart, please note the key differences in true cost, developer and client roles, and clear functional expectations. Building a professional CMS site such as Joomla or Drupal requires a bit more thought and structure up-front, but pays off over time with ease of keeping the site fresh, flexibility for business and technology change, adding new features, and not being held hostage by technical "gurus". Thus, for almost the same price you'd pay for an equivalent traditional website, you can now afford a high-end content-managed site with virtually no risk of obsolescence, making every dollar of your investment more powerful.

$85 - 500 per month
Year 1 only, no further obligation
Fully user-modifiable
Free new functions anytime
Low maintenance
Free community support
High-end DB design, not pages
Traditional HTML Website
$75 - 450 per month
Every year
Requires developer modifications
New functions = more $$
High maintenance
Developer support only = $$
Pages only, not extensible
Sitebuilder/Quicksite
$Cost of your labor and time
Amateur results
Canned modifications only
Limited function, no choice
Low maintenance
No support
Pages only, not extensible
.NET or Java
$500 - 5000 per month
First year
Not user modifiable
New functions = $$$
High developer maintenance
Support = $$$