Enterprise-level control and Search Engine Optimisation CMS
August 10, 2018
Enterprise-level control and Search Engine Optimisation CMS
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Progress Sitefinity
I work at the University of the Free State (UFS), and we use it across all departments (approx. 150 web admins, supervised by my line manager and me). She and I are the quality assurers for web content at the university. Sitefinity has a high level of user-friendliness, and an intuitive graphical user interface. Users with a basic level of technological skills are able to quickly assimilate the basics of Sitefinity and start building a web page, while advanced users rarely run out of new ways to present their content. However, it is difficult to implement customisations and then maintain these over progressive iterations (updates/upgrades).
- Drag-and-drop GUI: HTML can be very intimidating to new web users or web admins. Sitefinity GUI and drag-and-drop functionality allow one to build a page using a pre-selected template. This process is intuitive and easy to master.
- Consistency: By creating department-specific templates for home pages and content pages, users are able to simply populate the template with their text, images, designs, videos, and other digital content. The template keeps the pages looking consistently the same while allowing a measure of freedom to the user.
- Corporate Identity: Sitefinity allows web admins to adhere to the Corporate Identity guidelines of our company.
- We would like to be able to customise the features of the software more, but this presents issues when these customisations are not carried over to the following version of the software.
- Integrations with other software and/or API are not clearly identified or communicated.
- Customer support and service is often lackadaisical or sluggish.