I’ve been a PHP developer for a tad over 5 years now but have never had the need to use a pre-packaged CMS as all my work was done either on an existing framework or on a site for myself (and I’d rather just edit the database directly). Now that I’ve decided to have a go at developing sites for clients, I understand the importance of using a CMS to speed up the development time. Because of my background as a developer, my conscience won’t let me go with something like Drupal or WordPress. Ironically, I’ve narrowed my decision down to either using EE or building my own CMS on top of CodeIgniter, and just have a couple of quick questions before (hopefully) becoming an EE fanatic.
Question #1: Because I’m such a fan of CI, I’m guessing that I’ll also love EE. But I don’t really want to spend $300 to find out that I’m wrong. How does one qualify for a trial license?
#2: Rather than trying to get clients with such a small portfolio, it’s conceivable that for the first several months I would build a fairly generic site and try to sell it to a company with a poor or nonexistent web presence, and then rebrand it and try to sell it to a different company if the first one wasn’t interested. In such a scenario, given that I’d actually only release the site to one client, would a single commercial license be acceptable?
Thanks.