Likelihood to Recommend Well suited for our needs of multiple images for auto auctions from a variety of sellers. Pointing them to one platform is easier than attempting to use a variety of platforms as we were doing before (email, slack,
Dropbox and
Google Drive would randomly be used by a variety of employees )
Read full review We recently put our alumni magazine online so viewers can read it digitally. SiteExecutive has been great for this project as it allowed us to easily create new templates and styling options specifically suited for our purposes.
Read full review Pros Flexible. This CMS can be easily extended and provide access to dynamic content Simple. The WYSWG is very easy to work with and identifying pages and content in the system is fairly easy Clean Interface. The interface is clean and uncluttered keeping focus on the content and not other factors. Read full review SiteExecutive provides a simple basic and convenient interface for creating and updating webpages. Easy way to create web forms, set up a confirmation webpage, and send a confirmation email. Integration with YouTube allows us to quickly embed the most recent videos to our website automactically as well as choose specific videos by date or title. Read full review Cons Contentful uses "references" to allow you to build very modular content. If I have a "slider" content type, I can create a "slide" content type which references a "button" content type, and so forth. This works well, but I occasionally wish there was a better solution for one-off content, like a settings page. Currently, this is done for creating an entire content type called "settings" with a single entry. Not a big deal, but not ideal, either. There are a few quirks with GatsbyJS integration, etc, but these issues are being fixed and improved upon very quickly. A minor gripe, but Contentful does not have a way to organize fields within an entry. Entries with many fields are somewhat tiresome to scroll through. Read full review Glitches happen more frequently than I'd like them to Limited options for formatting and organization within blog applications Read full review Alternatives Considered In the past we've used
WordPress to manage documentation content.
WordPress was more flexible than Contentful but also prone to inconsistencies and we ended having a lot of hacks to accomplish various
WordPress tricks. With Contentful there's less ambiguity so content producers are less likely to go astray. We also have our own in-house programmatic template solution for managing content, but this was a previous pain point when we needed to get the dev team to do a deploy for every content change.
Read full review WordPress is another CMS that I've used within a professional setting. Despite the cost difference, SiteExecutive is well worth the investment. Its functionality is much, much greater (they can't really be compared on the same level) and I have more freedom for customization and creating EXACTLY what I need.
Read full review Return on Investment Positive - new hires are able to get onboarded quicker with us using Contentful Positive - we can customize the journey of what modules/material the user sees after a course/video/article Positive - it's been an overall game changer when hiring external candidates who need extensive training Read full review External constituents are able to clearly see our mission, goals, and programs (i.e: we are successfully attracting potential students and their families) Faculty and staff are able to be directly involved in how their department is represented Read full review ScreenShots