Superior CMS for custom websites
Rating: 10 out of 10
IncentivizedUse Cases and Deployment Scope
Craft is our preferred CMS for small business and org websites. Craft provides superior flexibility, extensibility, and ease of use for both developers and users.
Pros
- Design-agnostic templating system. No themes. This means you can use whatever HTML, CSS, JS you want, and integrate it with Craft.
- Versatile field types, with 3rd party plugins providing a bunch more. Everything from plain text to address, color picker, date/time, file assets, one-to-many relationships, and more.
- Control panel with clean, responsive UI makes content updates easy for clients.
Cons
- Could use a more robust implementation of rich text editor.
- Some functionality that requires plugins, for example, advanced field management, should be part of the core install.
- It should be a bit easier to brand the control panel w/logo and color scheme.
Likelihood to Recommend
Suitable for mid-size to large websites (20 pages+). If you have a massive project with dozens or hundreds of content contributors, complex editorial process/workflow, are tied to a non-Linux platform (Microsoft Server), you may want an enterprise CMS like Episerver. If you need a small, cheap, theme-based, basic website with 5-15 pages, you'll probably go to WordPress.
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Ben Seigel
Principal in Marketing at Versa Studio LLC (1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
3 years of experience