« back to components
Lean Blogging 
Publish high quality and high performance articles
The Story
There was a time when a website was merely a fancy Flash intro animation. Then websites were based on open source bulletin boards, or "forums". After that, many sites were based on "blogs". This gave rise to open source CMS products such as Wordpress.
Over time, people recognized that their websites should be more than just blogs. Wordpress evolved to accommodate their needs - it became an all purpose website builder.
The Problem
Of course you are not going to power your website with Wordpress, for it cannot
handle heavy traffic. What many websites end up doing is to have their main pages custom built, yet leave the "blog" component to Wordpress.
The reason these websites hang on to Wordpress, or other blogging systems for that matter, is because the owners and/or developers of these sites may feel that Blogging is a complex matter. A dedicated blog software would take care of all kinds of use case scenarios. It would be prohibitively costly to custom build a blog component. "Why reinventing the wheel" is the common response.
How complex can blogging really be? After all you are just publishing articles. Yes you may embed images and other rich media. That's the extent of it. The fact is,
Your blog structure is simple, so is everyone else's. An open source CMS is complex because it has to anticipate everybody's needs. It does so, but poorly. The fact that a CMS tries to do more than just blogging, but to power the entire site has made a messy situation impossible to manage.
Inga's blog component, on the other hand, stays simple. It doesn't overwhelm the user with unfamiliar, unnecessary concepts. At the same time, your blog articles can be fully integrated with the rest of the system. A blog can showcase related events that can be
booked online. Stats and charts in a blog can be linked to live objects in a Gyroscope backend. Your blog articles become an integral part of the site, providing your visitors an immersive experience.
Estimated implementation cost: €360,00
