Modern Campus CMS (formerly Omni Campus) is a CMS for institutions of higher education. It can be deployed as a cloud-based service or hosted locally. It is built in Java, uses open standards, and is extensible through APIs.
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Squarespace
Score 8.4 out of 10
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Squarespace is a CMS platform that allows users to create a DIY blog, eCommerce store, and/or portfolio (visual art or music). Some Squarespace website and shop templates are industry or use case-specific, such as menu builders for restaurant sites.
$25
per month
Pricing
Modern Campus CMS
Squarespace
Editions & Modules
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Basic
$25
per month
Core
$36
per month
Plus
$56
per month
Advanced
$139
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Modern Campus CMS
Squarespace
Free Trial
Yes
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
No
Entry-level Setup Fee
Required
No setup fee
Additional Details
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28% to 36% discount available for annual pricing.
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Modern Campus CMS
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Features
Modern Campus CMS
Squarespace
Security
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Modern Campus CMS
10.0
6 Ratings
20% above category average
Squarespace
8.2
67 Ratings
0% above category average
Role-based user permissions
10.06 Ratings
8.267 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Modern Campus CMS
9.3
5 Ratings
18% above category average
Squarespace
6.6
58 Ratings
16% below category average
API
8.65 Ratings
7.151 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language
10.04 Ratings
6.037 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Modern Campus CMS
8.9
6 Ratings
13% above category average
Squarespace
7.7
99 Ratings
1% below category average
WYSIWYG editor
9.26 Ratings
9.284 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness
9.26 Ratings
7.278 Ratings
Admin section
9.26 Ratings
7.498 Ratings
Page templates
9.65 Ratings
7.399 Ratings
Library of website themes
10.02 Ratings
7.596 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design
8.85 Ratings
8.195 Ratings
Publishing workflow
9.26 Ratings
8.286 Ratings
Form generator
6.03 Ratings
6.780 Ratings
Web Content Management
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OU Campus is the best CMS product I've seen, especially when you have a large organization with less staff and resources. Also, its power, if one team likes marketing, handles all pages and that saves a lot of time and effort. I strongly like the components/snippets. Tags all dynamic modules.
Squarespace is one of the best solutions out there for building a website or web experience that looks good, has great functionality and is cost-effective, even for smaller businesses. Although most people in marketing will find most of the elements intuitive, if the creator is struggling with any of the functionality, there are many, many support options and other users who can offer assistance.
The JustEdit feature makes updating content a breeze. With a small staff, we rely on others to update their content. OU Campus makes it easy.
Site-wide find and replace. I use the site-wide find and replace feature for all sorts of things - links, enrollment numbers, department names. It's really helpful.
Customer service. The staff at OU Campus answers questions quickly and is always willing to discuss the most effective ways to take on new projects.
Stupid simple to use. I know very creative people who cannot code and this is probably the easiest ever platform for them!
Pretty website templates and great functionality with showing off portfolios.
They've already figured out what are the problems that non-coding people have when creating websites and they've figured out a simple solution for all of it.
Formatting. The page can sometimes look very differently when published than what it looks like while editing. Some improvements have been made in this area with version 10 however.
Find and replace. The command+F needs to find text on the page while editing, not present an actual find and replace dialog box. At least give me the option to simply "find" the text I'm looking for. The dialog box just gets in the way most of the time.
There is not a way to "unpublish" items. At least not a way that I can think of. I would like the ability to pull a page offline without deleting it. Seems like it should be done simpler.
It's simple to use for someone who is really good with computers as well as those who are not. I've been using my personal squarespace for years and have also helped clients build a starting page which they are later able to manage theirselves.
Help is available directly from the back end and uses full sentence searching to find answers to questions others may have asked before. With a ton of articles and support questions documents, it is very likely that your question has been answered. If not each page has the ability to open a direct email to support. Each case has a number and can be followed. Responses are often quick and have links and directions clearly stated
Before using OU Campus Content Management System we were using Adobe's DreamWeaver suite for creating and maintaining web pages. The core web development environment was cumbersome to set up. Non-tech people also had trouble understanding how the web works and how web pages are created/maintained. OU Campus Content Management System solved all problems for us.
Squarespace was quicker to set up and more accessible to manipulate the theme, pictures, and content. The page layouts are more versatile and fluid. With WordPress, more time-consuming efforts go into making a template work the way you want it to (because of the lack of the drag-and-drop grids that Squarespace has).
The cost is reasonably decent. My client says they spent about $20 a month or $240 a year. I asked her if she could add Google AdSense to her blog one day, and they believe they can. They said a custom site would cost them $3000-10,000 depending on who does it. And I agreed, but I found the website they created was on the lower end of that range.
