Want a super easy and solid swiss army knife of a website, use Concrete CMS
July 04, 2022
Want a super easy and solid swiss army knife of a website, use Concrete CMS
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Concrete CMS
We use it for our public-facing website, and we use it to deliver a range of website solutions for our clients. I offer it to my clients because I know I can create easily maintainable and extensible sites for them and be confident that they can become quite self-sufficient in a short amount of time.
- create and publish user-defined database content
- easy and intuitive for site editors *and* developers
- standards compliant and highly secure
- was built from the ground up to be a versatile and robust development environment
- reinvigorate and grow the (addon) developer community
- expand and refine the documentation/education program
- grow brand awareness
- easy to sell because of ease of use and ability to offer a solid solution to any request
- the ease of extensibility has made it simple to upsell features
- we only develop in Concrete because other options are too costly in the long run
My initial test was to time how long it took to create a very basic site from scratch with no prior knowledge. Concrete CMS won decisively. Over time, I've worked on projects that use other systems, and the challenges I encounter always affirm my choice to stay with Concrete CMS (even during the time when the developer community dwindled). The last fact that wins my allegiance is that I have 10+ yr old sites that are still functioning well, are easily maintained by the client, and haven't experienced any significant challenges. That kind of performance demonstrates how solid an investment Concrete CMS is.
Do you think Concrete CMS delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Concrete CMS's feature set?
Yes
Did Concrete CMS live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Concrete CMS go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Concrete CMS again?
Yes