Thanks for the reply Draven

It is my ideal to have all of my clients running on XOOPS as their website, but I just wish to enquire whether your clients are updating the sites themselves with basic maintenance from you, or are you doing all the updates?

The reason for this line of questioning is that I wish to know if I can allow SME clients to manage the sites themselves, thereby garnering more clients, or should I rather focus on the maintenance of the sites themselves.

The goal that I am attempting to achieve is to have full-time staff managing the maintenenace of these sites, and to do so, I need the client base to grow.

Kind of s catch 22 situation, grow and not have the time, or not grow and lose out on a larger client base...

Currently I have two contractors that I utilise, but it is not a suitable situation whereby the communication with them becomes problematic...

Kind Regards

Josua

Not sure if this is the correct place for this post, but my question is as follows:

My main focus is the end-user for such sites, as the scope and development of such CMS sites takes too long to implement. GNU sites such as XOOPS and PostNuke are fascinating to me, and allow for quicker implementation times and considerable "maintenance contracts"...

Xoops is the latest site idea that I am investigating, and I am feeling more and more that I should drop Postnuke entirely.

I would like to know if any of you have dealt with SME (Small to Medium Enterprise) companies that are using XOOPS and what their feedback was in these implementations of these sites.

The main selling point for me is the user interface for the admin section, for clients are baffled when presented with textboxes and no indicatiosn of what to do next...

The old addage of

Developer: "Yes the site can do anything you can possibly think of...."

Client : "Hmmm...I don't like the buttons!"

Clients are not intrinsicaly adaptive to the idea of a CMS site as they only are result driven, and appearance mad in today's world of "Market Analysis" and "Corporate appearance".

Even though I am quite impressed with the package thus far, I am usually unable to see it from a "Techno-Phobic" and yes sometimes clueless clients perspective.

Any input would be invaluable that some of you entrepeneurs may have had, and I am itching to make the chnage over to Xoops...

Also just a word of thanks o all developers for the concept and the amazing follow thgough of the product that you have released.

Screw Licensing, Make Mine GNU!

Josua