[adras]

Do you hand code your client work or mostly use publishing software (eg. wordpress) and customize it?

[Paul]

for me it depends, would rather hand code, but sometime the budget doesn't allow

[pgo]

You mean hard code - like flat files vs. content management?

I usually go with content management. Not that I do a lot of client work.

[Hunch]

I've used a CMS on one project, and wrote about 5,000 lines of hand code to make it do what I wanted. Generally I had code everything, but I've built up a fairly substantial personal code based that I've modularised and can often adapt/extend for new projects.

[iblastoff]

depends on the site. firstly, i'd never use wordpress as a cms. textpattern is much more flexible (although its age is certainly showing).

but yes, if a cms works for a site, i see no reason to completely write something from scratch. same reason why you would employ various php/javascript/etc frameworks like CI/zend/jquery

[adras]

pgo, I mean hand code as typing up the html/css/php.

Good stuff, no noobs here! The frame work idea looks very good.

[illvibe]

Always hand code the basics in HTML / CSS (how could you not?) and get it how I want it. Then, if I'm adding a wordpress backend, I'll integrate the HTML and CSS accordingly. I'm against designing by altering a CSS file on the fly.

[seen.to]

Originally Posted by illvibe

Always hand code the basics in HTML / CSS (how could you not?) and get it how I want it. Then, if I'm adding a wordpress backend, I'll integrate the HTML and CSS accordingly. I'm against designing by altering a CSS file on the fly.

Same here with added hand-coding PHP or JSP and JavaScript where appropriate.

I've used WordPress for a few client sites where it was perfectly appropriate to do so but integrating it is always the last step.

[rustybones]

Originally Posted by illvibe

Always hand code the basics in HTML / CSS (how could you not?) and get it how I want it. Then, if I'm adding a wordpress backend, I'll integrate the HTML and CSS accordingly. I'm against designing by altering a CSS file on the fly.

Yup ditto here. Hand code all my html/css plus a little tweaking of my js libraries and we're away. CMS is only used when required, but that's decided in the initial quoting process...

[Mongoose]

I like hand-coding stuff, so if I'm not using some kind of framework, I'll do so. When something Wordpressy is involved, I'll take whatever existing template/markup I'm given and build on it by hand.