Edwin Deponte takes over our blog this month to discuss the open source community. Thanks Edwin!
Web designs in the Philippines and elsewhere are one of the crucial factors that can either make or break your website. With numerous designs to choose from, it is indeed one of the hardest decisions that any developer and designer must make. Good thing there are softwares like open source that can aid them to choose what kind of design that they can do.
Whether you are a web developer or a web designer, here are some of the things that you can add value to the open source community.
Create collaboration
It is indeed true that in an open source community, you will never feel the professional vibe. Instead, what the open source community provides is collaboration with one another. With this in mind, what it can greatly offer its new and old members is the opportunity to have that sense of individuality and creativity – which in turn, what makes them as one.
However, being involved in this community does not mean that they compete with one another. Hence, it brings them all together and binds them to create another design that will help both present and future community members as its main goal is to give solution – to them and to their clients.
Share unlimited resources
Given that the open source community helps one another to craft new creations and bring more solutions, these efforts will result to having unlimited resources from the community. This is because each member will develop and enhance each product, which in turn, will help to support existing users and customers. In short, if a solution is needed, the chances are high that someone will create and develop it.
Promote freedom
Another thing that makes the open source community a great place for web developers and web designers is that it is free for all to use. With this being said, there are a lot of developers and designers that use this software – which in turn, gives a lot of room for flexibility. If there are moments that you are not satisfied with your current developer’s work, there are other developers and designers that can do the work for you. However, just be careful to whom you will give your work to. Always make sure that you get the right one so that you will avoid hassles and delays in the long run.
Practice flexibility
Since the open source community is free for the public, this means that it does not have the limitations and constraints for web developers and web designers to customize it the way they like it. With this in mind, personalizing and configuring the design and the codes means that you can freely customize it to your liking has no limit. As a result, you can configure it as much as you want.
Reduce costs
The open source community is, of course, free of costs as it is open for all to use. The only thing that it will cost you is the effort and labor that you exert in it. With this being said, you can allocate your funds to something else – whether it may be a brand new computer, the latest software that you can use, or with an expert developer and designer that can do the job.
Key Takeaway
The open source software is indeed a great and effective tool that you can use in order for you to create the design that you want – from websites to web designs. For this reason, it is a must that you have this in your arsenal to ensure that you will have unlimited ideas and knowledge about websites and web designs that you can customize and modify.
Source of Featured Image: Pexels.com
Content Sources:
https://www.commonplaces.com/blog/benefits-of-building-a-website-with-open-source-software
https://artversion.com/blog/the-benefits-of-using-open-source-technologies-in-web-development/
https://www.designer-daily.com/the-benefits-of-open-source-software-for-web-design-61286
Author’s Bio:
Edwin Deponte is a motivational writer who is also passionate about Social Marketing. He believes in others’ abilities and tends to bring out people’s hidden potentials through his words of inspirations and motivational articles.
