Cascade is easy to use intuitively, coming from a place with limited HTML/CSS experience
February 17, 2016
Cascade is easy to use intuitively, coming from a place with limited HTML/CSS experience
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Standard Installed
Overall Satisfaction with Cascade Server
I was the primary user in my department, using it to update our department's website content very often. It was being used across the whole organization, and it was set up by our IT department who still controlled the back-end design and structural support. Certain departments had control over content and updates, and other departments worked entirely through the IT department for updates. Since our department had such high update rates, having immediate control was very important.
- Easy, almost text-document style interface for people who don't know coding and HTML. Made it easy to update.
- Have the option to switch to HTML and CSS if needed, in case there were more intricate things I wanted to do.
- Having the ability to save drafts to get back to later made it easy to work on longer and more complicated page updates.
- With the ability to time page availability (go up on this date, come down on this date, etc) we didn't have to worry about timelines as much.
- Most of the more confusing aspects of Cascade were simply when the tools went above my head--usually when that was the case I just sent an email to IT to get help.
- The publishing aspect had a lot of steps sometimes.
- Sometimes the HTML would update to something else, even though I had changed it, in HTML. Usually something with paragraphs or breaks.
- Cascade Server had a very positive impact, because it was easy to switch permissions, easy to update, and that has made it very easy to keep our students and applicants updated on the goings-on.
- Since it was easy to learn, it was easy to hit the ground running when I became the website manager, and became easy to teach others for when I went on vacation or was otherwise absent.
- When a site-wide redo occurred, it was easy to switch things to the new format, including images and forms.
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I didn't have any input when it came to buying/using Cascade server. In fact, before using Cascade I wasn't aware that such a website management system existed! I imagined it was going to be much more complicated--editing individual code and CSS page by page, with very involved processes. Let's say I was pleasantly surprised when I was presented with something so easy to use.