Sitefinity: Simple and easy to use, but expect some work for it to be fast
June 06, 2017
Sitefinity: Simple and easy to use, but expect some work for it to be fast
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Progress Sitefinity
We use Sitefinity across our whole organization as our main website. It is used by staff in every department to update the website and build new content. It is an update from our last content management system as it is faster to maintain and build new content.
Pros
- Easy to edit existing content. It is only a few clicks to open a page, edit some text and publish it.
- It is easy to create content types and templates to display them for organizing information. We don't have to create custom applications to display simple content types.
Cons
- Speed. Sitefinity needs to be faster to load and use. There are features to help speed things up and they should be enabled by default.
- Documentation. It is possible to do many things with Sitefinity but the documentation is very hard to find. More examples with clear instructions for basic extensions are needed. They used to do this with screencasts but have stopped. Make sure the version number is included so we know if it works with our version.
- The Progress Support Portal needs to be improved. It is very time-consuming to put in a support task. You have to fill out many fields over and over and over again whenever you put in a task and they are the same every time. The old Support Portal was much faster.
We currently use ElementCMS and it is slow to use and slow to upgrade. We evaluated Kentico, Sitecore and a few others when looking for Sitefinity. Sitefinity was the easiest to use and offered all the features we wanted.
It was important to us the company stayed up to date and was working hard on improving the product. It looks like Telerik was doing that well.
It was important to us the company stayed up to date and was working hard on improving the product. It looks like Telerik was doing that well.
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