Site Foundry benefits
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Content management can be handled in many different ways, and the benefits of Site Foundry really depend on which angle you approach it.
We feel there are three main groups that site administrators fall into:
1. Make the changes by hand using a desktop HTML editor
The entire web industry was once based around individuals designing sites; then spending the rest of their time making changes with expensive WYSIWYG editors.
Not only is this time-consuming, but as an agency all your clients want you to make changes, and they want them now.
So how can Site Foundry benefit you?
You put the responsibility of content (copy and media) into the hands of your clients without the risk of them breaking your beautiful design. Site Foundry is fully template driven, right down to paragraphs and headings, and that minimises the risk of carefully crafted CSS being replaced by tags just because they wanted the text that little bit bigger.
2. Purchase an expensive CMS
You’ve heard and responded to the utopian ideal of CMS builders before but have been left feeling let down and despondent after the experience.
For example, why do I have to pay £10,000 a year to content manage a site? The benefits just don’t justify the cost – and all you get are complaints that the product is unusable to the average user.
So how can Site Foundry benefit you?
Site foundry is competitively priced, easy to use and a great starting point for any website application (a fully extensible product). Do you need any more reasons?
3. Go open source
Open-source has a place, and works fantastically in some situations – but not all. We’ve prepared a little table that compares open-source with Site Foundry.
We’ll leave you to make the right decision.
| Features | Site Foundry | Open source |
|---|---|---|
| Fully supported (telephone and face-to-face/onsite support?) | Yes | no |
| Consistent product development | Yes | no |
| Do you own it, i.e. can you brand the back end and change what you like? | Yes | no |
| Will the CMS provider build bespoke modules on demand? | Yes | no |
| Simple configuration and installation included? | Yes | no |
| Built with design/web agencies in mind? | Yes | no |
| Security (is the source code hidden from the public?) | Yes | no |