Best CMS is Concrete5
July 22, 2015
Best CMS is Concrete5
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
5.6.3.3
Modules Used
- Best Suite - Core
- eCommerce
- Digital Downloads
- Formidable
- Guest Blogger
- Pink Spoon Marketing
- ProBlog - Professional Blog
- Scrolling Wrapper
- Ajax Page List
- Designer Content
- Print Page
- Sortable Responsive Gallery
- Are You Human
Overall Satisfaction with Concrete5
We use Concrete5 for ninety percent of our client projects. Concrete5 is a perfect solution whether our clients need a simple CMS, a blogging platform or a complex dynamic site. Concrete5 is ideal for user registration, mass content input and display. The platform can also handle transactions via the eCommernce add-on and the best benefit for us is that it is easy to develop custom add-ons. Also, the sheer simplicity of the CMS allows all levels of users to manage their site which saves the site owner money by not having to hire a developer to adjust/edit content.
- From a designers point of view, Concrete5 is very easy to re-theme with your own custom web design. Any web designer with a basic understanding of HTML and CSS can re-theme a website.
- From a developers point of view, there are hundreds if not thousands of add-ons that will extend the the core functionally of your site to handle things such as full scale eCommerce inventory management, sales, transactions, customer management, fulfillment and so on. More importantly, there is a ton of documentation on the Concrete5 community site and it is very easy to develop your own custom add on if there is not one available.
- From a site editor's/owner's point of view, Concrete5 is very easy to use. If you can edit your LinkedIn profile and create a Word document then you can edit your Concrete5 website. All page edits are done on the page itself once you are logged in and in edit mode. Any custom add on or redundant task can be saved to the dashboard page for even easier access and use.
- Once area where I would like to improvement is the handling of bulk uploads to the database from the dashboard.
- I would like to see more free add-ons.
- Our development workflow is a lot more efficient. Also, our development time and cost is nearly cut in half when we work with Concrete5.
Personally I feel that WordPress is overly complicated and not as efficient as Concrete5. For example, Wordpress is a blogging platform hacked into a CMS, where Concrete5 is almost like a foundation with a CMS component. Concrete5 is very similar to Drupal just without the steep learning curve.