It is easy to get carried away by the enthusiasm of a young and talented programmer who says anything can be done for cheap. Want a banking website? $5000. Want to automate a country? $5000. Unfortunately, contracts and promises can only go so far in making these enthusiastic predictions come true, and by trying to bend reality to fit the enthusiasm, the young programmers inevitably become old and cynical programmers, and the young and enthusiastic clients become old and cynical clients who will be much more cautious next time around.
The problem is usually not honesty. The programmers, coming from school, are used to problems being simple, well defined, and easy to solve. Nothing seems impossible - after all, if it can be described, then why can't it be programmed.
The truth is that English descriptions of projects are usually not detailed or consistent enough to produce high-quality systems that human beings would really want to use. Getting such a level of consistency and ease-of-use takes a prolonged exposure to the subject matter, experience with end-users, and rewrites. Yes, rewrites mean throwing away the entire $5000 project that promised to be the solution, and writing the whole thing from scratch, hopefully with the benefit of having more experience with the subject matter.
Websites to manage online publications are like that for Transparen. Transparen Corporation's team of programmers has spent years and years working on online publication websites such as those used to sell trade journals or stock market analysis reports. With reference to the large existing body of magazine websites that is currently on the market - which is a fragmented and divided set of online websites, Transparen has looked at the front and back-end administrative experience of creating an application to manage a set of online magazines, and has the experience your company needs to hire in order to obtain the best and most appropriate result.
Is your magazine going to launch a major website using a programmer that may not have done this before? Is your trade journal going to sink or swim on untested code?
It may be a good idea to test the hypothesis that all of your features are unique and containing unique insights. Perhaps just a small portion of the ideas are actually unique and insightful, and the other portion is the same thing that other publishers have already done. Transparen's Publication Management Software Development Team is constantly focused on the needs of publishers just like you, and has most of the work already done. In this case, doesn't it make sense to contract with a team of developers who have all the legwork already done and tested, and simply need to implement the new, unique, and insightful features that you require.
Literally millions of dollars in cash, time, and lost opportunity could be spent on a project that would bring your attention away from the primary focus of an online publisher - all of which can be saved by working with a team whose large bank of intellectual property and wealth of online magazine publishing experience can import enormous value into the functioning of your organization.
By allowing you to focus on running a publication, we focus on making the software side seamless and robust. Whether you seek a turn-key system or a fully customized publication management system, Transparen's team is the way to do it.
