Honest review from someone who has been managing sites from 20 years
August 08, 2019
Honest review from someone who has been managing sites from 20 years
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Overall Satisfaction with Progress Sitefinity
Currently using this as our corporate website, but have also recommended and developed websites for 3 other organizations. It is being used primarily by the design/technology departments for marketing to update our company brand and presence online.
- Once templates and custom data has been defined, it is very easy for CMS authors/editors to manage content on the site without knowledge of HTML programming.
- Programming templates and custom module and extending the CMS is fairly straightforward for our development team.
- Security is in the forefront, with regular updates and enhancements to the product.
- Working with support is great, they have extensive knowledge on the product are able to assist if called upon.
- Product utilizes .net standards, and also integrates well will standard front end tools such as jquery/bootstrap.
- I wish there was more sharing in the community of user-generated scripts/tools (like the word press community and the vast amount of plugins)
Against WordPress, Sitefinity is easier for content authors to manage content on the site. Against ektron, seems like the application and administration tools were hacked together, and has poor ongoing support. Sitefinity has a simple approach to managing/organizing pages, content, and media assets, and customization is easy. Against Shopify, they don't let you customize the checkout process, and theme programming uses their own "scripting language", Sitefinity uses standard .net .cshtml and razor language which is simple to modify and update. This is accessible from the Admin backend so the site does not have to taken down to update simple views.
Progress Sitefinity Feature Ratings
Using Progress Sitefinity
Pros | Cons |
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Like to use Relatively simple Easy to use Well integrated Consistent Quick to learn Convenient Feel confident using | None |
- site content management
- change workflow
- assignment of roles/permissions are good and can customize as well
- easy to extend custom content/data types
- Updating the software, still requires development/staging environment. Wish there was a rollback.
Yes, but I don't use it