LightCMS prides itself on being a "....a content management system for web designers. Design sites, upload them to our content management system, and deploy world-class websites your clients can manage themselves. LightCMS is a simple to use, standards-friendly system, and it's built to help your business succeed."
Yesterday they announced that a key service was going to be increased in terms of cost from $495 to $696! $200 dollar increase with no increase in what they will deliver. See their post here
I think that this is a bad move... and particularly from our experience of the last two HTML Xpress orders... we don't feel that we got value for money with the $495.
The decision instantly, with no thought required, would be from our end to not look at taking this service in future. This has pushed it past a break point for us. If you were to look at improving the service, including some additional features in it etc it may be worth it. The alternative for designers who can't code, which was why this service existed I believe, is now to use another HTML cut up service and learn to integrate the template themselves. But why force designers to learn code and not focus on what they are good at, by increasing this price not just by $100 but $200! If this was the intention to drive customers to use alternative products, sorted. As I said... my two pennies worth... a bad move I think. As an aside... I saw no consultation with people that use the service to ask their opinion. I was set to use this again for the 3rd time in three months, I'm finding an alternative solution now as another $200 does not give great value IMHO.
