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    Duda

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ADuda, the eponymous platform from the company in Palo Alto, is a web design platform for companies that offer web design services to small businesses. The company serves customers from freelance web professionals to digital agencies, all the way up to the large hosting companies, SaaS platforms and online publishers.

    $25

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    Laravel PHP Framework

    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/ALaravel is a free, open source web application PHP framework.N/A
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    DudaLaravel PHP Framework
    Editions & Modules
    Basic
    $25
    per month
    Team
    $39
    per month
    Agency
    $69
    per month
    White Label
    $199
    per month
    Custom
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    DudaLaravel PHP Framework
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details25% discount available for annual pricing.—
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    DudaLaravel PHP Framework
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    Duda
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    DudaLaravel PHP Framework
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Duda and Laravel PHP Framework
    Feature
    Duda
    8.6
    9 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Laravel PHP Framework
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    Ratings
    Role-based user permissions8.69 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Duda and Laravel PHP Framework
    Feature
    Duda
    9.2
    8 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Laravel PHP Framework
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    API9.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language9.37 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Duda and Laravel PHP Framework
    Feature
    Duda
    8.8
    9 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Laravel PHP Framework
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    WYSIWYG editor9.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness9.38 Ratings00 Ratings
    Admin section9.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Page templates8.89 Ratings00 Ratings
    Library of website themes9.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design8.29 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publishing workflow8.88 Ratings00 Ratings
    Form generator8.08 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Duda and Laravel PHP Framework
    Feature
    Duda
    7.7
    9 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Laravel PHP Framework
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    Ratings
    Content taxonomy7.49 Ratings00 Ratings
    SEO support8.69 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bulk management6.88 Ratings00 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions7.29 Ratings00 Ratings
    Community / comment management8.37 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Score7 out of 10
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    Score8.5 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    Score7.7 out of 10
    Symfony
    Score10 out of 10
    Enterprises
    RWS Tridion Sites
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    DudaLaravel PHP Framework
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    10.0
    (21 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    DudaLaravel PHP Framework
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Duda
    Duda is great for agencies. There is a good client management area. It's even good for small businesses. They can choose a template and build out their own site. It's easy to customizes a website from a barebones template. There are many customizations in the each widget. The pricing is good for all size businesses. There is no tech headache with updates and backups.
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    Open Source
    I would say that Laravel is not a suitable framework for high-frequency, high-volume, real-time interaction or processing millions of records in batch operations. It shines for standard database web applications (CRUD, Admin Panels, etc.) and is a fantastic multi-developer framework.
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    Pros
    Duda
    • Very easy to learn and master
    • Builds beautiful, feature rich and easy to maintain cool websites
    • Provides an efficient management platform for agencies
    • Has a very good and responsive support team
    • Is continually expanding features and new add-on partners
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    Open Source
    • Laravel utilizes the best possible PHP standards and coding practices.
    • Laravel uses many widely-accepted community libraries and builds upon them, rather than re-inventing everything.
    • Laravel has many components available from the community and is extremely easy to build custom components for, either with custom code or by integrating existing third-party PHP libraries.
    • Laravel is flexible enough to power pretty much any kind of application I can imagine.
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    Cons
    Duda
    • Ecommerce can use some improvement--but this should be taken care of in 2023
    • A more robust app marketplace
    • More custom widgets
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    Open Source
    • Laravel is updated regularly, which is great. However, in order to get the latest features, use the newest 3rd party libraries, have the most current security updates, and ensure that the newest features of PHP are usable, you have to continuously upgrade your Laravel application. This costs time and money, obviously, and if you don't stay on top of the updates you will quickly fall behind. This is the case with any open source software, but it needs to be considered for any team considering using Laravel or any other software.
    • Because of the size of the Laravel community, there are a LOT of 3rd party libraries. Some of these are great, some are less than great. Sometimes it's difficult to evaluate the quality of a library, making it difficult to trust many libraries. Developers need to be cautious and thoughtful when considering using new software.
    • Because of the rapid development of the Laravel framework, the size of the community, and the simplicity of being able to publish content online - it is very easy to find documentation, tutorials, or other "advice" that is not up to date, or that has outdated information.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Duda
    No answers on this topic
    Open Source
    Laravel PHP Framework has continued to exceed my expectations. It supported me in the development of a high quality and stable web application that is mission critical for the organization. I cannot imagine wanting to use any other tool for web development. Documentation, unit tests, and numerous integration options make using Laravel PHP Framework a natural choice.
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    Usability
    Duda
    Again, this platform has to be one of the easiest web development sites I have ever used in my life. From creating pages to linking buttons, hiding pages, and more, it makes it so much easier to develop websites for clients, including forms and custom membership login portals. It really is the best.
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    Open Source
    As I mentioned earlier Laravel PHP Framework has lot of in built feature as well as there is vast set of packages available to add the features in your application. It has very large community who can help when you feel stuck somewhere. This is why this rating is justified.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Duda
    I can't speak to why my agency selected Duda, but I can say from personal experience that building a website in Duda is much easier, and backed by better support than any other website builder I've used. Duda allows me, as a web designer, to still create great looking and unique websites. I find that other platforms, while they may provide nice templates, make it very difficult to deviate from the guardrails they put in place. Through the years, even the most basic site that I've built in Duda is significantly better than those built in other platforms
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    Open Source
    Supporting unit testing is bigger plus point in Laravel than any other framework. Developing with Laravel is much easier. Other frameworks have value in market, but Laravel has taken the lead in popularity among PHP developers in recent years. The large community supports you if you have problems. Using Laravel, integration became easy with third-party libraries, but it was costly too.
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    Return on Investment
    Duda
    • Much faster project turnaround
    • Easy for non-tech staff to handle some of the work
    • Costs are lower than we were paying for less capabilities before we switched to Duda
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    Open Source
    • Positive: Our delivery time for PHP application is faster than usual.
    • Positive: Developers are happy and they write better code with their usual development tools. No tool-upgrade necessary.
    • Negative: Initial delivery took 6 months extra and had to rewrite project several times.
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