CMS Review - Kentico.com
Have finally come to the realisation that I might actually have to pay for a CMS. First time for everything.
The sort of functions I’m looking for just don’t appear to be available in the open source community.
To that end I have found one that seems reasonably priced and fits the bill with a very impressive feature set, including some things that I never expected to find but will no doubt at some point in the future, such as the ability to deploy an application across multiple servers in a server-farm setup.
The CMS is called kentico (not sure how it’s pronounced).
Things I like:
- Uses asp.net standard functions to build page templates, so things like master pages etc are available
- Has extensive documentation
- Great easy to use interface
- Publishing mechanism, so that I can actually build the site at home off a local server and then publish over a web service the actually updates to the site/database
- MS SQL server 2000 support
- An excellent tool to add new document types, with attributes, that you can then map transformations to. This means you can effectively build structured content items and then have them displayed and re-used over and over again.
- Extensive set of built in functions and controls for use when building page templates
- Granular security model
- Cheap(ish)
Have been playing with this for 2 nights now and it seems excellent. Have put something on their forum, will see how the support is.
So, what’s the verdict on Kentico?
bump, I’m looking at this product too. Any update on how you like it?
Thanks,
Mike
I never actually got to the point of buying this. It still seems to suit what I need to do, just a matter of finding the time to actually do this. The site I have in mind is huge, so it’s going to take months to get it across to any framework.
Thanks for your interest.
Jay
Well, any verdict?
We’re evaluating it for one of our clients.
BTW, we build websites in case you need help or want to outsource this…
Has anyone had experience with this product? I am looking at purchasing it too.
I am an interactive producer at Cramer in Norwood Ma and I have been falling in love with Kentico CMS. I have managed almost half a dozen websites so far based on it and have been very impressed with the capabilities it gives you. I am personally a fan of Drupal CMS however for smaller enterprise type sites Kentico seems to be a perfect fit.