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Greetings,
As you can tell this is my first post. I've used C5 for a personal site of mine and I have to admit I love it. Most of the requests I see on here have been solved minus the age verification one which I'll be tackling later today. What I wanted to know are there any other add on's users want that they'd be willing to pay the minimum $15 for? Taking all requests. I'll implement the most complete requests first. Going to see if I can help take C5 further forward than it all ready is. Granted, it'll be difficult because it all ready rocks. :)
As you can tell this is my first post. I've used C5 for a personal site of mine and I have to admit I love it. Most of the requests I see on here have been solved minus the age verification one which I'll be tackling later today. What I wanted to know are there any other add on's users want that they'd be willing to pay the minimum $15 for? Taking all requests. I'll implement the most complete requests first. Going to see if I can help take C5 further forward than it all ready is. Granted, it'll be difficult because it all ready rocks. :)
Unfortunately, I can't find the edit button. I'm aware of the jobs area as well. I just wanted to talk to the people. :)
One that i'm surprised hasn't appeared yet is an availability calendar that could be used for holiday homes, hotels etc
I don't need it yet but I guess it would sell pretty well.
Something along the lines of this one...
http://www.availabilitybookingcalendar.com/...
I don't need it yet but I guess it would sell pretty well.
Something along the lines of this one...
http://www.availabilitybookingcalendar.com/...
Technically there is a simple calendar add-on that could work quite well for an availability calendar, unless you're looking for more functionality?
No doubt Concrete5 rocks, and I appreciate the developers need to order pizza and beer, but you can only build a healthy community if you provide free beer. Sure some will pay a minimum for a drink, but the masses need FREE beer. I would help if I had more object PHP skills and knew how C5 works. I've finally got custom attribute search and advanced email contact form to work on my site and posted all codes and howtos for free in the block request section. Will be glad to help more if I could. Unfortunately my skills and time are limited.
Regards,
Free beer drinker... but willing to share :)
Regards,
Free beer drinker... but willing to share :)
i disagree. supporting and continuing to improve a collection of packages is almost a full time job. charging a little for the time involves means that developers can dedicate more time to concrete and still be able to pay the bills at the end of the month. plus you're talking about paying the equivalent of one hours work for something that took 20-100 hours to develop. that's a pretty good deal.
BYOB ;-)
BYOB ;-)
Tony,
You can't disagree with something I've never disagreed with in the first place :)
On the contrary, I agreed that developers need to order pizza and beer. BUT, as I said, the masses want free beer. Or you disagree with the fact that most of us want free beer?
It would be great if they charge for commercial use (those who make money out of building web sites) but leave them free for individual use (those who just use a web site or build their own).
It's also great they charge for commercial add-ons, I mean those like the ecommerce, real estate etc. After all, people will make money from using them, so they can invest a little to start with. But to charge for something like layout blocks, forms, search etc. sends a wrong message.
Or, another idea, maybe they should charge for a package but give the file sources for free.
Please don't get me wrong, I'm not saying you shouldn't sell this and do that. All I'm saying is if there was more free beer there would be many more supporters, the bigger community of users rather than commercial web developers as there currently is.
You can't disagree with something I've never disagreed with in the first place :)
On the contrary, I agreed that developers need to order pizza and beer. BUT, as I said, the masses want free beer. Or you disagree with the fact that most of us want free beer?
It would be great if they charge for commercial use (those who make money out of building web sites) but leave them free for individual use (those who just use a web site or build their own).
It's also great they charge for commercial add-ons, I mean those like the ecommerce, real estate etc. After all, people will make money from using them, so they can invest a little to start with. But to charge for something like layout blocks, forms, search etc. sends a wrong message.
Or, another idea, maybe they should charge for a package but give the file sources for free.
Please don't get me wrong, I'm not saying you shouldn't sell this and do that. All I'm saying is if there was more free beer there would be many more supporters, the bigger community of users rather than commercial web developers as there currently is.
well, i have to admit, i do like free pizza and beer. food & drink tends to be better quality when I'm willing to pay for it though (free sushi?). to me it seems like concrete is striking a nice balance between the free core, and a bunch of free & paid addons.
Yes, it's really great and cheap for commercial web developers, but not attractive for the rest.
I doubt it very much non-commercial web developers or content creators will pay a hundred or so bucks, rather they would probably either
1. try to ask for free add-ons and waste time, or
2. try to learn web programming and waste time, or
3. try to complain they don't get free beer and waste time
eventually leading them to either accept limited functionality and stick with C5 or change to another CMS. And none of this will help build a big, healthy community such as with Drupal, Joomla etc. Yes, they have hundreds of cr*ppy add-ons, but there're great ones too. It's choice vs quality, but by pure numbers, because they have so many supporters, they also have quite a number of good add-ons.
It's like Windows vs Apple (seems C5 developers really like Apple) - Windows is cr*p, but the choice of apps is so great and there're definitely quite a few good ones, even from MS. With Apple - you just get a small set of what they give you, you pay for the rest. But the quality is great. And then you have Linux - where you have both choice AND quality (well, not as good as Apple's but very close, definitely much better than windows').
And I doubted you can make a living from selling a couple of $15 add-ons anyway.
Well, all I want to do is to encourage all to make free add-ons and to post free code as much as they can.
PS. How hard is it to make one more forum topic such as Community Add-ons or Code or something like that?
I doubt it very much non-commercial web developers or content creators will pay a hundred or so bucks, rather they would probably either
1. try to ask for free add-ons and waste time, or
2. try to learn web programming and waste time, or
3. try to complain they don't get free beer and waste time
eventually leading them to either accept limited functionality and stick with C5 or change to another CMS. And none of this will help build a big, healthy community such as with Drupal, Joomla etc. Yes, they have hundreds of cr*ppy add-ons, but there're great ones too. It's choice vs quality, but by pure numbers, because they have so many supporters, they also have quite a number of good add-ons.
It's like Windows vs Apple (seems C5 developers really like Apple) - Windows is cr*p, but the choice of apps is so great and there're definitely quite a few good ones, even from MS. With Apple - you just get a small set of what they give you, you pay for the rest. But the quality is great. And then you have Linux - where you have both choice AND quality (well, not as good as Apple's but very close, definitely much better than windows').
And I doubted you can make a living from selling a couple of $15 add-ons anyway.
Well, all I want to do is to encourage all to make free add-ons and to post free code as much as they can.
PS. How hard is it to make one more forum topic such as Community Add-ons or Code or something like that?
