Today there are various open source frameworks available in the market which is quite alluring. But the problem is, most of the attractive features offered by these frameworks are quite similar. You can easily be confused about the suitability of the framework with your project. Well, in that case why not take a look at the major disadvantages of these frameworks and decide which one you would like to keep apart from.
Following are few disadvantages associated with the major frameworks:
Oscommerce:
Oscommerce customization is a trusted, cost effective and easy to use suitable framework for wide range of stores. But some of its disadvantages that should be kept in mind are:
•There is no inbuilt password protection for the admin area.
•It is not template driven. The shared headers, footers, left and right column files can be changed through Oscommerce customization but that would be time consuming.
•It is a complex framework and hence Oscommerce customization can be difficult and would require good developer.
•It has limited attributes (no stock control and stock keeping units available)
Wordpress:
•Wordpress is the most widely used blogging site with hundreds of plug- ins available in market. Although it does have some drawbacks that we must be aware of:
•It is a template based CMS and hence doesn’t provide a very unique branding and designing. Although it is achievable through wordpress customization but would be tedious and time consuming.
•Unique category pages are not included as its core functionality. It can only be added through wordpress customization.
•It doesn’t provide unique pages and usability as it uses the same banner and design element for all pages.
Cakephp:
Cakephp customization provides amazing content management, multiple language options, brilliant file manager, facilitates RSS feeds and comments. Some of its major disadvantages are:
•Cakephp is not suitable for large – scale applications. It only supports small and medium sized applications.
•When working with cakephp, it is important that the work is done the cake way. Difficulties could arise is there are much differences.
•It is unfriendly to saphghetti codes as it uses standard sessions. Problem may arise in case of lack of standards on the legacy code.
Magento:
Magento is an open source built on powerful zend framework. Magento customization allows the user to manage multiple stores from a single administrative panel, of course with few advantages:
•Its heavily layered and complex coding makes it quite slow. It consumes a lot of space which makes it difficult to store for the owners.
•A smooth and fast running magento website need a high speed and dedicated server and hence make it comparatively more expensive.
•From user point of view, administration is complicated
•Lack of technical documentation makes Magento customization difficult.
Zencart:
Zen-cart customization provides versatile shopping cart software which makes use of standalone program which is prone to following drawbacks:
•To make use of oscommerce contribution it has to be converted to zencart.
•Due to huge number of installed contribution, admin area becomes messy.
•Limited on line forums which could means lack of support .
•It’s difficult to change its look and feel.
An experienced developer can be very handy to advise you the best. So, please give a chance to Connect Infosoft to guide you. It has already developed and delivered more than 100 sites on various frameworks in various countries.
Following are few disadvantages associated with the major frameworks:
Oscommerce:
Oscommerce customization is a trusted, cost effective and easy to use suitable framework for wide range of stores. But some of its disadvantages that should be kept in mind are:
•There is no inbuilt password protection for the admin area.
•It is not template driven. The shared headers, footers, left and right column files can be changed through Oscommerce customization but that would be time consuming.
•It is a complex framework and hence Oscommerce customization can be difficult and would require good developer.
•It has limited attributes (no stock control and stock keeping units available)
Wordpress:
•Wordpress is the most widely used blogging site with hundreds of plug- ins available in market. Although it does have some drawbacks that we must be aware of:
•It is a template based CMS and hence doesn’t provide a very unique branding and designing. Although it is achievable through wordpress customization but would be tedious and time consuming.
•Unique category pages are not included as its core functionality. It can only be added through wordpress customization.
•It doesn’t provide unique pages and usability as it uses the same banner and design element for all pages.
Cakephp:
Cakephp customization provides amazing content management, multiple language options, brilliant file manager, facilitates RSS feeds and comments. Some of its major disadvantages are:
•Cakephp is not suitable for large – scale applications. It only supports small and medium sized applications.
•When working with cakephp, it is important that the work is done the cake way. Difficulties could arise is there are much differences.
•It is unfriendly to saphghetti codes as it uses standard sessions. Problem may arise in case of lack of standards on the legacy code.
Magento:
Magento is an open source built on powerful zend framework. Magento customization allows the user to manage multiple stores from a single administrative panel, of course with few advantages:
•Its heavily layered and complex coding makes it quite slow. It consumes a lot of space which makes it difficult to store for the owners.
•A smooth and fast running magento website need a high speed and dedicated server and hence make it comparatively more expensive.
•From user point of view, administration is complicated
•Lack of technical documentation makes Magento customization difficult.
Zencart:
Zen-cart customization provides versatile shopping cart software which makes use of standalone program which is prone to following drawbacks:
•To make use of oscommerce contribution it has to be converted to zencart.
•Due to huge number of installed contribution, admin area becomes messy.
•Limited on line forums which could means lack of support .
•It’s difficult to change its look and feel.
An experienced developer can be very handy to advise you the best. So, please give a chance to Connect Infosoft to guide you. It has already developed and delivered more than 100 sites on various frameworks in various countries.