kentico?? maybe someday I must try. Can I see your site with kentico?

Sure - check out http://www.newagestore.com

found this article on a search, hoping to find something more current. are you still using this CMS and do you recommend it?

Hi Jeff,

Our company, Marketing Images, started using the Kentico CMS in 2007 for building our client Web sites. We purchased the full source code version, certainly not necessary for most but in the past we had done custom CMS solutions so we needed to maintain that ability even if we implemented a site using this.

The CMS was beyond fantastic back when we purchased it and each new version that comes out is beyone wonderful. We find that each time we have to create a custom module or component for a client that the next release that type of capability is included as one of the pre-built modules.

The API is fantastic and I think with all of the sites, even with creating custom modules, we've only once "had' to touch the source code to modify something but even that ended up not being necessary because a new release came one month later that made it unnecessary because we chose to just upgrade that site.

This is a product that even in its most basic content editing and management features has a rabbit hole that runs deep with abilities beyond what you find in most similar products. What I think really sets it apart is that the inclusion of these capabilities does not dirty up the UI, making it easy for a non-technical site content manager to ignore or use as desired. Beyond that, the site admin can customize the UI for each user group(role) by simply checking boxes to make sure people don't poke into things they shouldn't or get overwhelmed with options that confuse them.

The support from the company is friendly and if you can contend with the potential time delays depending on the time zone you are in, it is quite good. They have opened an office in the US (which is where we are located) which has improved their response time and I have noticed an increase in awareness of the product as well. They have also started a certification program for the product that will only expand the number of qualified developers and increase the potential for being able to find support options within more time zones.

I must say that when we first got our hands on this product I felt like I wanted to keep it all to myself because it is so good that I felt it would give us an unreasonable competitive advantage. But my loyalty to the company that has produced something so excellent and has treated us with such respect makes me want to shout about it to the world.

Regards,

John Wietzel Jr.
VP - Managing Director
Marketing Images

Hi Jeff

Yes - still using Kentico. It's weird - this is by far the most popular post on the site from google search results - I must take advantage of that and do some writing.

I continue to be impressed by Kentico after so many years. Only in the last 4 days have I finished the upgrade to V5.0 and have seen some substantial improvements in performance (not that I thought it was slow before). The site I use it on gets about 20,000 visitors a day and serves up about 8,000,000 pages a month, and kentico doesn't blink.

I have it running on a dedicated box with a seperate SQL box (so 2 machines to run the one site) which is probably a little extreme but it works.

I've also never seen a content management that allows for such easy customisation. You basically just build a standard .NET webpart and inherit from the kentico library and everything you need is then available. Most of the functionality on the site we run is built using these custom web parts and the whole framework really does make it easy. Like many systems there are parts of it that we don't use however we are shortly going to be bringing online the ecommerce and community functions.

If you have specific questions then please let me know and I'll do my best.

Jay

i'd love to get a little more information on how it handles structured content - i'm thinking of using this for our users to publish news and articles but don't want them to be just presented with one wysiwyg editor because all the articles would end up in different formatting with images in different places - can this be controlled?

Hi Shaz

This was one of the reasons I choose to use kentico. It gives you the ability to create content types, with custom properties, that you can then transform in different ways.

I've recorded an 8 minute video here that shows how I use the document types in our website.

Jump: http://www.jaymccormack.com/index.php/2010/03/13/document-types-in-kentico/

Jay

PS: Sorry the recordings a bit poppy

Had nothing but positive things to say about Kentico so far (have been developing using it for ~3 Years now). I've honestly not come across anything that comes close to it in the OSS world!

It's a very interesting subject I was looking around about more information but you got really what i was looking for in your article so thanks and keep it up you have a great blog .
I'm very interested in CMS and all its related subjects.

I am using Kentico for about 2 years now and have decided to build all my websites with this CMS.

In the past weeks I was posting some extensive reviews about the new version 4.0: http://www.r42.ca/r42-blog

I've been using Kentico CMS since about June of last year and it's been a great product to get to know.

Before using it, I'd always built my own CMS applications from scratch because of my obsessiveness about certain details.

Once I found Kentico and learned how it works, I can't imagine using anything else. It makes me happy.

If anyone wants to see some example sites, check this page of mine.

Fully recommended!

I have been the technical lead in implementing the kentico CMS into our business and I must say we are chuffed to bits with it. It is sooo extensible and easy to create userControls and just drop them in.

It suited about 10 of our requirements and then had about another 10 features we will soon be using.

I give it 9/10 because there is always room for improvement.

I just recently created a User Group on LinkedIn to encourage dialogue on pros and cons of the Kentico CMS product. Join the user group on LinkedIn.com and let's share some thoughts and ideas. Kentico CMS User Group in LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=970177

How is this compare to sitefinity CMS? Has anyone evaluated both?

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.

Has anyone had experience with this product? I am looking at purchasing it too.

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...

So, what's the verdict on Kentico?