Hello there,
I´m not sure this is the right place to put this post, but anyways.
Im a partner of a small webagency based in Copenhagen. We´re using Contao as our primary platform for our webprojects. We´ve been using it for the last 3 years and have been more than pleased with how extremely flexible the system is. It´s a BIG pleasure for us as designers to work with such an intutive CMS that makes just about anything possible. But ... We have a few major concerns which have led us to explore other CMS such as Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, Squarespace etc. And here goes why:
The fact that Articles and the Sitestructure are separated is one extreme challenge to explain to our clients. Plus the way that Articles are organized is also very complicated to understand for CMS newbies (our clients). If the client has access to more than just the Main area, lets say that the client can edit Header, Main and Left area in the Articles, the structure becomes very confusing and easy get lost in. This means lots of hours with unhappy clients on the phone, even after 2-3 hours of Contao teaching. And the separation of Articles and Sitestructure also makes it much more complicated to add new pages. It´s a help with the article icon now added in the sitestructure and the creation of a default main article. But not enough to remove the big question mark from our client face though :-(
We are still using Contao because of the flexibility, well organised, well coded and many plug´n´play features. Even after lots of hours learning and exploring other CMS´s, we always return to Contao. So we´re wondering if anyone else have the same thoughts on this issue and we of course would love to come up with suggestions to how we could improve the systems ease of use regarding the battle of Articles & Sitestructure.
Hope this is not taking badly - everything is written with pure love for Contao.
Best regards,
Robert & Ingemann
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