NVU vs. Squiz Digital Experience Platform

NVU is an easy self explanatory program that helps us edit the Landing Pages for the company for which I work. However, many of the features of being able to edit text & text boxes is out of date & very jumpy. I often have to rewrite sentences in order to fit better on a line because I can't adjust the text box without it messing up the entire Landing Page.

Incentivized

Working with a large amount of web content where there is a need to focus on related content.

• It allows me to easily create the Landing Pages for my company. I can easily create a copy of an NVU file & then rename it in order to create a new file. Then once I've made the necessary changes to the new file, I just drag & drop the new file into our backend to automatically upload to our site.
• It allows me to edit text fairly easily. I can drag & drop the text within a text box.

Incentivized

• Speed and efficiency
• Roles and content control
• Related content

• I can't widen a text box without it jumping & messing up the entire Landing Page.
• I can't drag text from one text box into another.
• The text settings change if I don't copy a word that already exists in a word box & paste it into the new line of text before starting to type a new sentence.
• Sometimes I try to open a Landing Page to edit it & it says that NVU is unavailable & I have to close the program & try again.

Incentivized

• User Interface was good but heavy, with Java powering the backbone I recall finding this somewhat troublesome at the time.

I don't work with Squiz any more so it's difficult to say, that said, the site is still running on the same CMS so obviously it's still considered a great platform

Easier to work with

• I think my boss has actually decided to stop using NVU to create & edit our webpages because of it's lack of updates & features for editing text.
• It takes me a lot of time trying to adjust text boxes to get them to fit on the Landing Page correctly with the entire desired content.

Incentivized

• Having a single powerful CMS platform that would integrate a number of organisations that had recently merged - Squiz was a big part of bringing our web architecture together gracefully.
• Increased employee efficiency