ConcreteCMS Review

ConcreteCMS is an innovative and powerful free and open source content management system, which aims to solve the challenges of creating and running a website in a complete platform with simple processes and at no additional cost. As free and open source software (FOSS) under the MIT software license, it allows users to do literally anything they want with this program. In fact, ConcreteCMS offers much more advanced features than a user would expect from a completely free tool. Anyone can start creating their website in seconds and the editing experience is memorable. Developers have a flexible and robust framework for building sophisticated web applications. At the same time, users are able to make changes and add pages on their own.

CONCRETECMS – TUTORIAL

In this introductory tutorial we learn how to edit and manage your website with this CMS:

CONCRETECMS – FEATURES

• Intuitive text editor
• Toolbar on each page changes the contents and structure of the site while browsing
• Preview changes before publishing
• History of changes: possibility to compare the changes made to a given page over time
• File manager with integrated Picnik for image manipulation
• Very versatile permissions: creation of editing groups, approval of contents, monitoring of changes
• Drag’n’drop of contents between the different pages
• Scrapbook for copying content and features from one part of the site to another
• Integrated spell check
• Flexible URLs for SEO: page optimization for search engines
• Simple integration with Google Analytics
• Integrated support system with commercial support options (v5.3)
• Automatic installation of themes and add-ons (v5.3)
• Free marketplace for various add-ons
• Content planning: possibility to write and postpone its publication automatically
• Box for every need: including a photo slide show, YouTube integration, guestbook, Flash support, polls, surveys, internal search engine, RSS feed, secure file distribution, Google Maps and a form creation tool.