Choose your battle: trade-offs when building a website

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You may have heard this before:

  • I need a website, could you help me?
  • How long will it take to build my website?
  • What tech stack would you recommend for my website?
  • What will a website cost me?

This session has different items one should consider when building a website.  Some that we will take into consideration are: 

  • The type of websites:
    • Marketing landing page.
    • Family and friends website.
    • Small business
    • Medium size business.
  • The requirements of their site: 
    • Number of editors
    • Number of pages
    • Average number of visitors. 
  • The different forms a website can take:
    • Static websites
    • CRUD apps vs Websites.
    • CMS websites: WordPress and Drupal.
  • Their budget, market, and long-term maintenance goals
    • 1k - portfolio project to play with new tech.
    • 3k-5k - Small websites, basic needs. Likely set it and forget it.
    • 10k - Includes one or more editors. Maybe a set it and forget it.
    • 50k - Includes multiple editors and likely includes ongoing maintenance and support.
    • 100k+ - Agency style websites. Multiple editors. 

This session aims to help answer those questions for them and help you as the developer find the fastest, simplest solution for each type of challenge.

About the Speaker

Bernardo Martinez

Web dev at Vaultes

Chattanooga, TN

Bernardo started his Drupal journey in 2018, with Drupal 8.3. Since then, he has demonstrated his passion for the community by participating in Drupal user groups, local Drupalcamps, and Drupalcons.  Over the last 2 years, he has started his journey as a speaker. Topics range from local development with ddev, to front-end technologies, to tips on achieving outcomes fast by borrowing ideas from open source projects.

He is a maintainer for the Drupal recording initiative and ddev.com and tries to take every opportunity as a speaker to contribute back to Drupal and the community projects, such as Drupal4gov and a variety of camps

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