Superior CMS for custom websites
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Craft is our preferred CMS for small business and org websites. Craft provides superior flexibility, extensibility, and ease of use for both developers and users.
Pros
- Design-agnostic templating system. No themes. This means you can use whatever HTML, CSS, JS you want, and integrate it with Craft.
- Versatile field types, with 3rd party plugins providing a bunch more. Everything from plain text to address, color picker, date/time, file assets, one-to-many relationships, and more.
- Control panel with clean, responsive UI makes content updates easy for clients.
Cons
- Could use a more robust implementation of rich text editor.
- Some functionality that requires plugins, for example, advanced field management, should be part of the core install.
- It should be a bit easier to brand the control panel w/logo and color scheme.
Return on Investment
- We don't have hard numbers on Craft's impact on our ROI, but we recognize that its feature set, ease of use, and integrated ECommerce allows offering a superior product to clients.
Alternatives Considered
ExpressionEngine and WordPress
Other Software Used
ExpressionEngine, Adobe Photoshop, Balsamiq
