Sitefinity - not for beginners
June 09, 2017
Sitefinity - not for beginners
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Progress Sitefinity
We used Sitefinity as a CMS tool for our company website for over 5 years. We recently migrated out of Sitefinity to use Squarespace. Sitefinity allowed us flexibility in web development with template and widget based tools for users on the team that weren't as tech savvy as it would take to run a site in say, Wordpress.
- Allows a good blogging template and management platform where other team members could write articles and submit for approval
- Decent navigation while in the CMS tool.
- Allows for deep customization if you know how to code.
- The template is pretty hard to drag and mess something up. Strict rules and approval before changes is nice
- The mobile functionality needed improvement and was hard to implement. It wasn't default, and really should be nowadays, and it cost extra.
- Upgrades took forever to implement, and we had to get outside resources to implement them, which cost us more money.
- Not particularly user-friendly and many features were buried.
Sitefinity gave more options for people that know how to code and can do great with templates. Squarespace is limited in many functionalities, and in most cases won't let you adjust certain elements without writing specific scripts. Squarespace was a lot easier to use out of the box, and if someone didn't have coding experience, they'd be in trouble.