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Zenario

Score10 out of 10

1 Reviews and Ratings

What is Zenario?

Zenario is a Content Management platform for organizations that need to create, manage, and publish public websites, multilingual content, and secure user areas. Its hosted offering, OnZenario Cloud, provides a guided setup for teams that do not need to write code, while retaining layout, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), HyperText Markup Language (HTML), and JavaScript controls for authorized designers.

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Categories & Use Cases

Top Performing Features

  • Role-based user permissions

    Permissions to perform actions or access or modify data are assigned to roles, which are then assigned to users, reducing complexity of administration.

    Category average: 8.4

  • WYSIWYG editor

    What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get editing tool allows users to build pages without writing code.

    Category average: 8.1

  • Code quality / cleanliness

    Code generated by WYSIWYG editor is clean and validates according to W3C standards.

    Category average: 7.8

Areas for Improvement

  • SEO support

    The CMS helps users create the right website infrastructure (pagination, page headers, titles, meta tags, url structure, etc.) to increase the site’s visibility in search engine results.

    Category average: 7.6

  • Bulk management

    Users can change an attribute on a group of documents or sites all at once through features such as global search and replace, making bulk changes easier.

    Category average: 7.2

  • Community / comment management

    Users can put post/page comments through an approval process, auto-approve commenters based on their email addresses, block commenters by IP address, delete comments, etc.

    Category average: 7.4

Zenario CMS Review

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Zenario for a large and growing travel web site. It provides the ideal platform for content management, supported by a large database of accommodation and points of interest. I like the fact that I can create content and manage data with limited technical knowledge, but knowing that prompt and efficient technical support is there when needed.

Pros

  • intuitive design interface
  • easy to use for non-techie
  • runs a large web site efficiently
  • flexible approach to database design

Cons

  • none

Return on Investment

  • enabled the efficient creation of 9,000 pages
  • enabled a geocoded database of 40,000 POIs
  • facilitated SEO with visitor volumes growing despite negative impact of AI answers
  • maintained positive performance statistics, despite significant volume growth

Usability

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365, Looker Studio, Google Ad Manager