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Bland Brands Beware: Optimizely’s New Identity Brings Human Creativity to its Agentic AI and AEO Ambitions

matt-garrepy

CMS Critic is proud to announce their status as a media sponsor for the <a href="https://conference.modmore.com/" target="_blank"> MODX Weekend by Modmore conference</a>.
The event begins on Friday 19th and ends Sunday 21st of September 2014. 
The venue is to be within the Netherlands, in the heart of a privately owned 111 acre forest. Along with all-inclusive hotel rooms, food and drink, attendees can enjoy listening to a range of speakers who will be speaking on all the latest goings on at <a href="http://modx.com/" target="_blank"> MODX</a>. Additionally, the weekend talks will serve to update the MODX community on whatever is coming soon for the platform, as well as the Web industry as a whole. 
 The MODX Weekend conference promises to offer a high quality experience on a number of fronts, so let's take a closer look at what's on offer.
<h2>All-inclusive Treatment at a Stunning Venue</h2>
Attendees of the MODX Weekend by modmore conference can essentially kick back and relax, as the hosts take care of pretty much everything – from start to finish. 
 Luxurious VIP coaches are scheduled to pick up attendees from local airports and train stations, taking them right to the Conference Center Woudschoten, where the event will be held. 
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/woudschotenbovenaf700x0.jpg" alt="MODX Weekend by Modmore" /> The Conference Center Woudschoten is home to a professional conference center, complete with three star hotel rooms, multiple bars and restaurants, and a breathtaking view. 
Every hotel and conference room has a beautiful view of the natural environment surrounding the buildings, which will certainly enhance the typical conference experience. To explore the forest, attendees are also more than welcome to go for a stroll or even a bike ride. 
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/woudschotenhotel700x0.jpg" alt="MODX Weekend by Modmore" />
The rooms provided all have a great view of the surrounding grounds, and come with two single beds, a shower, a flatscreen TV, a desk to work on and some friendly amenities. 
A full list of what's on offer throughout the conference can be seen below:
<ul>
<li>3 nights in an on-site three star hotel room (Check-in Friday afternoon/evening, checkout Monday morning)</li>
<li>Breakfast Buffet on Saturday, Sunday and Monday morning</li>
<li>Lunch Buffet on Saturday and Sunday</li>
<li>Dinner on Friday (buffet), Saturday (three-course menu) and Sunday (BBQ)</li>
<li>Unlimited coffee, tea, water and a variety of soft drinks and snacks during the day</li>
<li>Drinks (including a selection of alcoholic beverages) and snacks every evening</li>
<li>Munchies and water in the hotel room</li>
<li>Evening Entertainment, including live music on Friday and Saturday, a Fussball tournament and more</li>
<li>Complimentary maps of the estate for walking or biking</li>
<li>Bikes are available at no charge at a first come-first serve basis</li>
<li>Access to at least 15 sessions on MODX and the Web</li>
<li>Unlimited streaming access to professionally recorded and edited videofootage for the sessions, available within a week or two after the event.</li>
<li>Pick-up on Friday from Schiphol Airport or Utrecht Central Station with a luxury VIP Coach.</li>
<li>Drop-off at the same location on Sunday evening or Monday morning.</li>
<li>Free goodies from modmore and event partners</li>
</ul>
<h2>The MODX Weekend Programme</h2>
MODX's weekend event boasts over 15 individual sessions, all of which will stretch from between Friday 19th to Sunday 21st of September 2014. 
The official programme can be seen below.
<blockquote>
 Friday (Sept 19th): We look forward to welcoming you to the venue on Friday afternoon/evening. There will be a dinner buffet served in the bar at 6pm, with plenty of drinks and opportunity to socialise while the lounge band plays. 
 Saturday (Sept 20th): The conference starts around 9.30. The morning programme is all about the latest and upcoming techniques to use in MODX and the web in general. After lunch we look at performance and workflow in the broadest sense of the words. Attendees are also invited to do a 5 minute lighting talk at the end of the day. After a three-course menu in the restaurant there will be a good ol' fashioned party night in the bar complete with live band, stand-up comedy and more…
 Sunday (Sept 21st): On Sunday there will be two tracks of sessions. In the front-end track we talk about web techniques and front-end integration with MODX. The back-end track will be about developing custom components, plugins and other techniques on the manager or framework level. To end the conference we're firing up the BBQ and enjoying the last evening together.
 Monday (Sept 22nd): After breakfast it's time to check out. We're looking into some activities for the monday morning.
</blockquote>
Early Bird Tickets are available at €699 (including VAT) until February 28th. After that, the price goes up to €799. So, make sure you <a href="https://conference.modmore.com/register/" target="_blank"> take advantage of the massive €100 discount</a> before it's too late! 
 To find out more about the all-inclusive MODX Weekend by modmore, check out the event's <a href="https://conference.modmore.com/" target="_blank"> official website</a>.

All-inclusive "MODX Weekend by Modmore Conference" Set for September 2014

mike-johnston

Adobe has announced the arrival of <a href="https://spark.adobe.com" target="_blank">Adobe Spark</a>, a web-integrated mobile solution for creating social graphics, web stories and animated videos.
The web and mobile app hybrid let users whip up images and videos for use on social media, or within their marketing campaigns. As for the web stories, these are essentially one-page-style websites that can be built in a matter of minutes.
Adobe claims that the app is ideal for small businesses, bloggers, marketers, and students.
<h2>Adobe App Unification</h2>
Adobe Spark is basically the end result of a unification process. To make Adobe Spark, Adobe has combined and re-released; Adobe Post, Adobe Slate, and Adobe Voice.
Here's a video put together by Adobe, introducing their latest project:
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Here's a further break down of what <a href="https://youtu.be/ZWEVOghjkaw" target="_blank">Adobe Spark</a> consists of:
<ul>
<li><a href="http://spark.adobe.com/">Adobe Spark web app</a>: a browser-based web experience for creating social posts and graphics, web stories and animated videos.</li>
<li><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/adobe-spark-post-create-stunning/id1051937863?mt=8">Spark Post</a>: an iOS mobile app that enables anyone to create stunning social posts and graphics in seconds. (previously Adobe Post)</li>
<li><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/id/app/adobe-spark-page-create-stunning/id968433730?mt=8&amp;ign-mpt=uo%3D4">Spark Page</a>: an iOS mobile app that helps users create beautiful web stories. (previously Adobe Slate)</li>
<li><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/adobe-spark-video-easily-create/id852555131?mt=8">Spark Video</a>: an iOS mobile app that enables users to create compelling animated videos in minutes. (previously Adobe Voice)</li>
</ul>
<h2>Hands-on With Adobe Spark</h2>
I took Adobe Spark's web app for a short spin, and I liked what I saw. With the app, users can add captions to images, create videos, and tell a story about their brand's journey.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sshot-4.png" alt="Adobe Spark Dashboard" />
I decided to create a social graphic. Adobe spark prompted me to choose a caption, and then an image size. Image sizes were pre-optimized for Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, and other social networks.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sshot-2.png" alt="Adobe Spark interface" />
I ended up making a simple yet motivational image that's perfect for Instagram. And it took me a matter of seconds.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sshot-3.png" alt="Adobe Spark interface" />
The user interface was smooth and speedy, while the customization options were vast. Adobe has packed Spark full of pre-designed fonts and themes that your message just slots into. The hard work has already been done.
For now, Adobe is only catering to iOS users – but I'm sure they will expand to Android before long.
My verdict? For a free app that's accessible on iOS and through my browser – it's fantastic.
I have no doubt that Adobe Spark will help boost the creativity of brands that rely heavily on image-based social networks like Instagram and Pinterest.
To find out more about Adobe Spark, <a href="https://spark.adobe.com/" target="_blank">visit the app's dedicated website</a>.
You can also explore more of Adobe's solutions through our directory hubs for; Adobe Business Catalyst, Adobe Analytics, and Adobe Experience Manager.

Hands-on With Adobe Spark: Social Graphics, Web Stories & Animated Videos

<a href="https://www.cubecart.com/" target="_blank">CubeCart</a> has announced that all previous, current and future versions of its software will be under GPL 3.0 licence. Put simply, CubeCart is now open source.
Plus, the popular eCommerce platform has released its first beta for CubeCart version 6, along with a brand new <a href="https://www.cubecart.com/extensions" target="_blank">Extensions Marketplace</a>. It's fair to say that the CubeCart team has been hard at work over the last few weeks and months. 
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/1634_1634_37_37_cubecart_logo210.jpg" />
<h2>Going Open Source</h2>
Now that CubeCart is fully open source, developers can start to really get their hands dirty with some CubeCart coding, building extensions and designig templates. The move should guarantee a much brighter future for CubeCart as far as flexibility and extendability is concerned.
Developers wishing to sell or distribute their CubeCart extensions and templates can do so via the <a href="https://www.cubecart.com/extensions/seller/login" target="_blank">Sellers log in page</a> for the Extensions Marketplace. 
CubeCart's open source future does come with a price though, for technical support anyway. Enterprise Support is what's being offered, and it starts from £21 per month, which is roughly  $32.
<h2>CubeCart 6: The Details</h2>
CubeCart have called version 6 of their product, “a whole new philosophy for online commerce.”
Of course, CubeCart 6 is still in its early stages, but let's take a look at what's on offer anyway.
<ul>
<li>Strictly no bloatware. CubeCart v6 ships with no extensions with the aim to make it as lightweight and as optimized as possible. Extensions can be easily installed, upgraded or downgraded by copying and pasting a “token” generated from the extensions marketplace.</li>
<li>Extensions such as payment gateways, shipping rate calculators, skins etc now have individual version releases which means updates can get to you faster than having to wait and upgrade your store entirely.</li>
<li>CubeCart v6 ships with one (intentionally basic looking) responsive theme powered by the brilliant <a href="http://foundation.zurb.com/">Foundation Framework</a>. Users are encouraged to customise it themselves or to grab an off the shelf skin from the marketplace.</li>
<li>Performance enhancements like improved caching is enabled by default and the homepage should have just three lightweight MySQL queries after the cache is built.</li>
<li>Tweaks have been made to existing features such as dynamic product options on the manual order builder and improvements to the product import tool.</li>
<li>All templates &amp; extensions for v5 are forward compatible with CubeCart version 6.</li>
</ul>
To find out more about CubeCart's recent announcements, <a href="http://forums.cubecart.com/topic/49092-cubecart-v6-beta-launched-all-versions-now-open-source/" target="_blank">check out theri official announcement, made via their community forum</a>.

CubeCart Goes Open Source, Launches V6 Beta & Extensions Marketplace

<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/episerver_partner_portal_2-01.png" alt="Episerver_partner_portal_2-01" />
According to <a href="http://www.channelpartnersonline.com/">channelpartersonline.com</a>, 80% of partner portals don’t live up to channel partners’ expectations, as employees don’t regard them as effective everyday tools to sell their vendors’ products.
Usually, partner portals fail because they:
<ul>
<li>Are not user-friendly, i.e. navigation or search is so complicated that a vendor management might seek help from support to find the needed page.</li>
<li>Don’t engage partners through communication and help, e.g. do not encourage them to ask questions on business-related issues or share insights on the community board.</li>
<li>Don’t offer useful tools that can help salespeople to support sales, e.g. generate a customized proposal or calculate ROI.</li>
</ul>
In my <a href="https://www.scnsoft.com/blog/how-to-engage-channel-partners-with-a-portal">recent blog post</a>, I outlined several tips on how to reverse these flaws and start engaging partners for better sales.
Now, let’s get to the technical aspect of creating an actionable partner portal, which first of all boils down to choosing a capable CMS.
Serving established enterprises that seek to increase sales through partnerships, we at <a href="https://www.scnsoft.com/">ScienceSoft</a> prefer the commercial <a href="https://www.scnsoft.com/episerver">Episerver</a> platform, and here’s why.
<h2>Engage Multiple Employees in One Company</h2>
To encourage the existing partners to sell more through your partner portal, you should engage not only their vendor managers but also other employees who can influence an end customer’s purchase decision, i.e. sales reps, marketing specialists and tech people.
Episerver allows adding to a company account multiple employees as users with predefined roles, including an administrator who will be able to manage members (create, edit or delete).
<h2>Tailor Content to Every Employee</h2>
With Episerver, you can personalize virtually any type of content – from on-page information such as a text, image or block to a set of pages or sections to be shown to a visitor depending on their role.
This way, you will make sure that a sales rep and a tech specialist will find their shortest ways to the required information without wading through tons of generic content.
<h2>Improve Your Portal on the Go</h2>
Episerver offers an open and layered architecture so that you won’t need to go through a full-blown portal redesign while changing or expanding your information structure, be it introducing a community board or building advanced search-based navigation.
<h2>Offer Handy Interactive Tools</h2>
Working with multiple partner portals, employees will naturally stick to the most convenient ones. The Episerver CMS will help you to stand out from your competitors by implementing useful tools such as:
<ul>
<li>Marketing material customizer to change logos, prices and contacts</li>
<li>Configurators and calculators for products with options</li>
<li>Reports on sales, and others</li>
</ul>
<h2>Winding It Up</h2>
A convenient partner portal that serves relevant content to all of your partners’ employees engaged in sales becomes an everyday helper and eventually boosts sales.
The question is, can your CMS ensure the necessary level of personalization and usability? If you are only thinking about creating a partner portal or willing to redesign the existing solution, we recommend to consider Episerver as a proven option.

A Look at Episerver as a Partner Portal Platform

<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/wordpress-intranet-theme638x0-is.jpg" />
We’ve all used it in some way, shape, or form. In fact, up to <a href="https://managewp.com/statistics-about-wordpress-usage">26% of websites</a> worldwide are powered by WordPress, making it one of the most popular content management systems globally. For many uses, WordPress is a fantastic choice. It’s aesthetically pleasing, easily customizable, and up and running in no time. However, it’s also easy to fall into the trap of thinking that WordPress is the best system for all your online needs—when in fact, this is not always the case. Here we to look at some of the downsides of using a WordPress intranet theme as an intranet solution and suggest a better alternative.
<h2>Lots Of Options, Lots Of Headaches</h2>
One of the big attractions to WordPress is the vast array of plugins and different themes that it offers users. It seems as though there is a plugin to serve every purpose under the sun—over 40,000 of them! When creating a blog (WordPress’s core purpose), these can be great. However, many users find that the sheer range and complexity of plugins are a real headache.
For example, imagine that you’re looking to have a document sharing center and a staff calendar as part of your WordPress intranet. These would both require plugins, which would seem like a straightforward task. The issue is, WordPress plugins are supplied by thousands of different developers, meaning that you’re likely to end up with two different plugins, run by different suppliers. What does this mean for you? Most likely different support policies, varying schedules for updates, differing mobile compatibility, and a completely different look and feel. Overall? Messy.
Having such a range of plugins to choose from may seem like an intranet heaven, but it’s far from it. They clutter and complicate your intranet, adding unnecessary third parties and creating a disjointed experience. If you’re looking for a great intranet design to engage your staff, WordPress may be the intuitive choice, but it’s not the logical one.
<h2>Using A Blogging Site… For Intranet</h2>
If you choose to use WordPress to create your intranet, what you’re doing is using a blogging website, for an intranet. As much as WordPress tries to appeal to broader purposes than its initial target market of bloggers, at the end of the day, it’s still a blogging tool.
With this in mind, WordPress has not been designed in the same way that an intranet solution will have been. Some of the typical features you may wish for your intranet to have, such as different levels of access to different pages, may actually be rather difficult to create in practice. Inevitably, the answer for everything on WordPress is plugins—but as we already know, these come with their own set of issues. Often we find that an intranet with all the necessary features takes a painfully long time to load on WordPress, purely because of the quantity of plugins that must be loaded with every new page. Contrast this to an intranet hosted on software specifically designed for intranet, and the difference is remarkable.
<h2>Support Responsiveness, What’s That?</h2>
An intranet is all about engagement. It’s designed to enhance engagement, and its success pivots around staff engagement. That’s why one of the most important features of an intranet provider is their service—their ability to dive in and fix problems immediately before staff get apathetic and begin disengaging with the platform.
Unfortunately, this level of responsiveness is simply not present in WordPress intranets. For starters, issues are more likely to occur, given the number of plugins needed to run the necessary features of an intranet. Importantly though, there’s no one provider with a service agreement. As we’ve touched on, different plugins are run by different suppliers, often individuals. If your document sharing center crashes, your staff may have reverted back to paper-based systems before Gary from Albuquerque has responded to your calls.
<h2>To Build, Or To Buy?</h2>
One of the questions that always comes up early on in a discussion about intranet implementation is “Should we build our own? Or buy one off the shelf?” It can be tempting, particularly for large companies with well-resourced IT teams and servers, to build an intranet solution to meet the bespoke needs of their company. This can come with a few pitfalls, however:
<ul>
<li>Creating your own bespoke intranet can be deceptively time and labor intensive</li>
<li>Housing a server requires a physical space</li>
<li>Ongoing management, maintenance and security the server and intranet become your sole responsibility</li>
</ul>
So, why not buy an off-the-shelf WordPress intranet solution? It’s cost effective, quick to set up and easy to manage, but beyond this, it’s not all plain sailing. Firstly, you’ll have to host the solution yourself unless you are going pay to host it in the cloud. The cost for hosting with the performance level needed for a stable intranet alone will be the same as paying for a cloud intranet that's ready to go. Secondly, you’ll have a restricted level of functionality, depending on the provider’s development schedule. Thirdly, you’ll likely find that after a couple of years, a new solution is required, if you choose a cloud intranet solution, then it will stay up to date with current trends.
To truly make the most of a <a href="http://www.myhubintranet.com/wordpress-intranet">WordPress intranet</a>, you’ll need someone on your team who has a thorough knowledge of WordPress. Technical expertise in CSS is necessary too, which is often not available in small to medium-sized organizations. Even if it is, it comes at a cost—and is building an intranet, on a blogging website, really the best use of that resource?
<h2>Security Alert!</h2>
WordPress websites are notorious for security concerns. Given the overwhelming popularity of WordPress globally for its core offerings, it’s naturally vulnerable to SQL injections, hacking, and other unwanted attention. No doubt WordPress is working hard to address these concerns in their updates, however, at the end of the day responsibility for security lies with you. That means if you want cutting-edge security features, such as SSL, you’ll need to set those up yourself.
<h2>WordPress Intranet Theme? </h2>
We love WordPress, just not for an intranet.
So, what’s the alternative? We believe it’s a cloud intranet solution. Some cloud intranets have several advantages over WordPress, such as:
<ul>
<li>No requirement for specific technical knowledge</li>
<li>Easily customizable, pre-tested templates and features</li>
<li>Easy to set up, guided site builder process</li>
<li>Mobile responsiveness</li>
<li>Secure external hosting using industry-leading online security features</li>
<li>Straightforward ongoing management for users and content</li>
<li>High availability and uptime (approx. 99.99%)</li>
<li>Fully integrated platform, and no need for plugins</li>
<li>Responsibility for updates and backups remains with the provider</li>
</ul>
Ultimately, if your business wants an intranet that doesn’t compromise on functionality or service, that your staff can be engaging with within hours, then consider a cloud intranet. Doesn’t it make sense to choose a solution that has been specifically designed for the purpose in mind, rather than a cobbled together set of plugins on a platform originally designed for an entirely different use?
Get in touch with us at MyHub if you’d like to know more about cloud intranets. MyHub is the premier cloud intranet choice for hundreds of businesses of different sizes and in different markets across the globe. Contact us today for a <a href="https://www.myhubintranet.com/book-demo/">free intranet demo</a> and to find out why.

WordPress Intranet Theme vs Cloud Intranet Provider?

Translation is becoming more and more relevant by the day, with content management systems and the brands they serve having to think about catering to different tongues. After all, the larger your business, the further your reach.
<img style="max-width:220px" src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sdl_logo-220x220.jpg" alt="SDL_logo" />
<a href="http://www.sdl.com/">SDL's</a> Machine Translation (MT) Engine now translates <a href="http://www.sdl.com/about/news-media/press/2016/sdl-machine-translation-translates-20-billion-words-per-month.html">over 20 billion words every month</a>. They have been developing MT technology for over 20 years, with the latest technology, <a href="http://www.sdl.com/cxc/language/machine-translation/xmt.html">XMT</a>, released in 2015.
<h2>Breaking Down Barriers</h2>
Brands across the globe are now using SDL’s MT for instant communication, translating and sharing user-generated content and analyzing Big Data sets. This powerful engine helps organizations break down the barriers of multilingual communication by providing a scalable infrastructure for the development and rapid deployment of real-time translation capabilities.
To illustrate the growing need for language translation in today's content-centric world, SDL has produced this cool infographic:
<a href="http://www.sdl.com/about/news-media/press/2016/sdl-machine-translation-translates-20-billion-words-per-month.html"><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sdl_ig_machine_translation_volume-5-11-16_tcm73-104045.jpg" alt="SDL Translation" /></a>
SDL offers MT engines that are scaled, trained and deployed to meet the unique needs of each individual organization. Key capabilities include:
<ul>
<li>Engine Training – Industry-trained and custom-trained engines produce higher quality MT output to match the terminology and style of the individual organization.</li>
<li>Secure Deployment Options – SDL’s secure cloud offering can be hosted either in a class III data center, where all customer content is destroyed at the completion of the translation, or onsite behind a customer’s firewall.</li>
<li>Post-Editing MT – An increasingly popular translation option is to have human translators Post-Editing Machine Translation (PEMT), doubling their daily production. SDL offers PEMT optimized engines, training and best practices to increase translator output.</li>
<li>Integrations – As organizations look to incorporate their translation activities into their overarching global content strategy, SDL’s MT capabilities integrate directly with other business applications.</li>
<li>Social Media – SDL’s MT engines are particularly adept at translating unstructured, social media content as its algorithms manage metadata, morphology and abbreviations common to social communications.</li>
</ul>
Upon reaching this massive milestone,  SDL's President of Global Language Solutions, Dominic Kinnon, made these comments:
<blockquote>“Machine Translation has become critical to improving language translation workflows as well as enabling global business management.
Our MT technology is used by companies from a wide variety of sectors including finance, life sciences, travel, and government to equip them to solve their language challenges.”</blockquote>
To find out more about SDL's MT Engine, <a href="http://www.sdl.com/about/news-media/press/2016/sdl-machine-translation-translates-20-billion-words-per-month.html">visit their website</a>.
And as always, you can explore more through the SDL Hub on our CMS Directory.

Infographic: SDL Now Translates 20Bn Words Per Month

Call Tracking + AI 

Call Tracking + AI that Turns Calls into Leads

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B2Evolution has just launched their new revamped skins site for users of the open source blog platform. B2Evolution, for those unaware, is a great alternative to more popular tools like WordPress and Blogger.
With the new Skin repository, users can now browse all available skins for B2Evolution quickly and easily using a ton of handy filters. Skin authors can also submit their skins to the repository for inclusion.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/b2evolution-skins900x0.png" alt="b2evolution-skinsio" />
As of now, there are already a significant number of skins within the repository so if you are looking for a good skin or just want to take a look and see how B2Evolution can look, <a href="http://skins.b2evolution.net/">head on over</a> and browse it.

Looking for B2Evolution Skins? Check out their new Skin site!

<a href="https://www.ecwid.com/" target="_blank">Ecwid</a>, the popular eCommerce solution, has just made order management a whole lot easier for merchants.
Powering over 500,000 online stores, Ecwid is a shopping cart that seamlessly integrates with existing websites and platforms.
With this update, online merchants using Ecwid can re-visit existing orders and make changes quickly and easily. So, there's no more stressing when a customer wants to amend or add to their order.
<h2>Powerful Order Management</h2>
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/edit-orders-cp.jpg" />
Ecwid users can now do the following with ease:
<ul>
<li> Add new items to an order</li>
<li> Remove items</li>
<li> Edit existing items: product name, SKU, options, quantity</li>
<li> Edit customer’s address, name and email</li>
<li> Add or remove a discount</li>
<li> Edit names of payment and shipping methods</li>
<li> Edit order total or shipping fee</li>
</ul>
All you need to do is install the “Order Editor” Ecwid app from this page: <a href="https://www.cmscritic.com/ecwid-rolls-out-order-editor-feature/" target="_blank">order-editor.ecwid.com</a>. The Order Editor app is available at no charge for all users on <a href="https://www.ecwid.com/pricing">Business and Unlimited plans</a>.
To find out more about Ecwid's new order editor, <a href="https://www.ecwid.com/blog/improve-customer-service-with-ecwid-new-order-editor-feature.html" target="_blank">check out their blog announcement</a>.

Ecwid Rolls Out “Order Editor” Feature

Video is engaging. Video is powerful. Video can put your site at the top of search rankings. As a marketer you probably have been thinking about adding the video component to your campaigns. The challenge is that you want to deliver quality video across many devices and be able to manage the flow of this media as efficiently as possible. The technical requirements to deliver this can be daunting. An answer to that challenge comes with the expected release of a Brightcove Video Could Connect for Sitecore.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/brightcove-logo.jpg" alt="brightcove-logo" />
Brightcove is a leading cloud content provider and the promise of a integrated product with Sitecore has some in the industry excited. Dave Walters of XO Group has this to say:
<blockquote>“We are excited by the promise of the Brightcove Video connector for Sitecore … By integrating the two solutions, we will be able to more seamlessly incorporate high-quality video into our content-rich brand websites, providing an even richer user experience for our consumer. The use of one interface, instead of switching back and forth between multiple systems, will allow it to be done faster and more efficiently. This is important for our organization as it will give our brand and editorial teams more time to focus on audience engagement rather than on the technical aspects of video integration.”</blockquote>
Switching between and having to manage separate systems increases the time it takes to go live with any campaign. With the Video Cloud Connector, Sitecore will essentially have a video extension that is as intuitive to manage as the rest of the content. No doubt this will cut training time down which will most likely make implementing this connector with current Sitecore clients rather simple. We like that don't we? Simple is good.
<blockquote>“This is an exciting partnership that makes it easy for marketers to execute impactful video campaigns more efficiently, as well as take advantage of the market-leading online video platform with Sitecore’s Web content management system in a fully integrated way,” 
~Chris Johnston, director of technology partnerships at Brightcove.</blockquote>
To help develop and facilitate this integration is Agency Oasis. Their experience with both Sitecore and Brightcove platforms made them an easy choice for the role. While we eagerly await the official release of Brightcove Video Cloud Connector for Sitecore, you can find out more by visiting <a href="http://www.sitecore.com" target="_blank">www.sitecore.com</a>

Brightcove Video Connector will bring video content to Sitecore

<a href="http://www.kajona.de/" target="_blank">Kajona</a>, the PHP5 based content management framework, has just released version 4.6.
This new Kajona release introduces simplified workflows — particularly for the portal editor. Also, many modules which are vital for building the foundation of Kajona have been modernized and enriched with new functionality.
Here are some highlights of Kajona 4.6.
<h2>Improved Installer &amp; Revamped Editor</h2>
<img style="max-width:399px" src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/image.jpg" />
Both of Kajona's installer and backend-skin are based on Twitters' Bootstrap, but now their installer is the first component to be fully updated to Bootstrap 3. While updating the installer, they removed some redundant options, making installation a lot smoother and faster than before.
Also, now with Kajona 4.6, an autocomplete-supported input box helps to find and to select the desired page even faster when creating or changing a link using the integrated WYSIWYG editor.
<img style="max-width:399px" src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/image_1.jpg" />
When working with the portal editor, operations like creating, editing or deleting elements on a page is now integrated more seamlessly. Plus, these changes are reflected immediately, without the need to reload the page. Obviously, this speeds up the maintenance of websites significantly.
Other modules, like news, search, and charts have also received updates. The Kajona system and framework has also been tweaked for better performance.
To find out more about Kajona 4.6, <a href="https://www.kajona.de/en/News/newsdetails.Kajona-V4-6-nimmersatt-available.newsDetail.972e9575491df1a0e9f4.html" target="_blank">check out their blog announcement.</a>

Kajona 4.6 Released

CMS Critic is a media sponsor for <a href="http://www.jahiaone.com/">JahiaOne</a>, the first international Jahia user conference being held in Paris, France on February 6th and 7th of this year. JahiaOne is an exciting opportunity for Jahia developers, users, clients and partners to meet, share their experience and discover Jahia's upcoming versions. 
Below is the current program for the event as of this writing, you can check for the most current program <a href="http://www.jahiaone.com/program">here</a>. For a list of sessions and more details, visit the conference website at <a href="http://www.jahiaone.com/">JahiaOne</a>.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/logo-jahiaone.png" />
<h2>Day 1 : 6 Feb 2014</h2>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<th>TIME</th>
<th>SCHEDULE</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>08:30 AM – 09:00 AM</td>
<td>Welcome Coffee</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>09:00 AM – 09:40 AM</td>
<td><a href="http://www.jahiaone.com/home/program/session/opening-keynote">Opening Keynote</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>09:45 AM – 10:30 AM</td>
<td><a href="http://www.jahiaone.com/home/program/session/jahia7-discovery">Jahia 7 Discovery</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>10:30 AM – 11:00 AM</td>
<td>Coffee and networking</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>Track 1</td>
<td>Track 2 – Jahia R&amp;D Track</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>11:00 AM 11:40 AM</td>
<td><a href="http://www.jahiaone.com/home/program/session/abercrombie">Abercombie &amp; Fitch – Customer's testimonial</a></td>
<td>
<a href="http://www.jahiaone.com/home/program/session/jahia7-welcome-to-OSGi">Jahia 7 architecture: Welcome to OSGi</a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>11:45 AM – 12:30 PM</td>
<td><a href="http://www.jahiaone.com/home/program/session/homeaway">HomeAway – Customer's testimonial</a></td>
<td><a href="http://www.jahiaone.com/home/program/session/jahia7-more-about-OSGi">Jahia 7 architecture:  Learning more OSGi</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>12:30 PM – 02:00 PM</td>
<td>Lunch and networking</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>02:00 PM – 02:40 PM</td>
<td><a href="http://www.jahiaone.com/home/program/session/socomec">Socomec – Customer's testimonial</a></td>
<td>
<a href="http://www.jahiaone.com/home/program/session/jahia7-advanced-modules">Advanced modules – choose the right strategy</a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>02:45 PM – 03:30 PM</td>
<td>– Soon announced –</td>
<td>
<a href="http://www.jahiaone.com/home/program/session/jahia-stutio-new-development-tools">Jahia 7, enter the Studio, new development tools</a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>03:30 PM – 04:00 PM</td>
<td>Coffee break and networking</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>04:00 PM – 04:40 PM</td>
<td>– Soon announced –</td>
<td>
<a href="http://www.jahiaone.com/home/program/session/from-development-to-production">Jahia 7, From development to production, the complete lifecycle</a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>04:45 PM – 05:30 PM</td>
<td>– Soon announced – </td>
<td>
<a href="http://www.jahiaone.com/home/program/session/extending-jahia-with-nosql">Extending Jahia with NoSQL. Demos and Showcases</a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>05:30 PM – 06:00 PM</td>
<td>Coffee break and  networking</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>06:00 PM – 06:30 PM</td>
<td><a href="http://www.jahiaone.com/home/program/session/certification-exam">Certification Exam prepping: check of every developer's environment</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>07:30 PM- 00:00 AM</td>
<td>Gala Diner!</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h2>Day 2 : 7 Feb 2014</h2>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<th>TIME</th>
<th>SCHEDULE</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>08:30 AM – 09:00 AM</td>
<td>Welcome Coffee</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>09:00 AM – 09:40 AM</td>
<td>Jahia Professional Services</td>
<td><a href="http://www.jahiaone.com/home/program/session/jahia-hyper-performance">Jahia hyper Performance</a></td>
<td>
<a href="http://www.jahiaone.com/home/program/session/certification-exam">Free Certification Exam</a>
For experienced Jahia developers (we recommend a minimum of one Jahia project over the past 12 months)
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>09:45 AM – 10:30 AM</td>
<td>Upgrade to Jahia 7 </td>
<td>
<a href="http://www.jahiaone.com/home/program/session/search-and-query">Search API under the hood</a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>10:30 AM – 11:00 AM</td>
<td>Coffee break and networking</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>11:00 AM – 11:40 AM</td>
<td>– Soon announced – </td>
<td><a href="http://www.jahiaone.com/home/program/session/external-data-provider">Jahia 7, External data Provider</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>11:45 AM – 12:30 PM</td>
<td>
<a href="http://www.jahiaone.com/home/program/session/test-and-debug-before-live">Testing and debugging your project before going live</a>
</td>
<td>
<a href="http://www.jahiaone.com/home/program/session/new-rest-api">Jahia 7 new REST API</a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>12:30 PM – 02:00 PM</td>
<td>Lunch and networking</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>02:00 PM – 02:40 PM</td>
<td>
<a href="http://www.jahiaone.com/home/program/session/MVC-in-Jahia7-Using-SpringWebFlow">MVC in Jahia 7 Using Spring Web Flow</a>
</td>
<td>
20mn : <a href="http://www.jahiaone.com/home/program/session/new-admin-panels">Jahia 7 new administration panels</a> 20mn : <a href="http://www.jahiaone.com/home/program/session/bootstrap-less-integration">Bootstrap and less.js Integration Demo</a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>02:45 PM – 03:30 PM</td>
<td>Closing keynote – what lies ahead</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
We will be there both days live tweeting, taking pictures and writing about the event. If you are going, be sure to hunt either myself or Kaya down and say hello!

Join us at JahiaOne, The First International Jahia User Conference

Document Management vendor, eFileCabinet has announced the integration of RightSignature into their suite of tools. This is good news for current and future customers and puts them one step closer to being able to move to a fully paperless office.
<img style="max-width:492px" src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/realsignature.jpg" alt="realsignature" />
This new integration allows users to:
<ul>
<li>Easily send documents for signature online.</li>
<li>Automatically file collected signatures within the eFileCabinet folder system.</li>
<li>Enable customers to sign where ever – on their computer, iPad or any smart phone.</li>
<li>Provide legally binding electronic signatures with bank-level security.</li>
</ul>
According to Matt Peterson, President &amp; CEO of eFileCabinet, Inc:
<blockquote>“By partnering with RightSignature, we are able to incorporate e-signatures into our document management suite of products to close the loop to create a totally paperless solution. Users will not only be able to save on paper, but streamline their business so they can service more clients, close deals in seconds and generate more revenue.”</blockquote>
Source: <a href="https://www.efilecabinet.com/" target="_blank">eFileCabinet</a>

eFileCabinet integrates signature capability via RightSignature

CMS Summit 26

Find out at Open Source CMS 26, October 20-21 in Utrecht, Netherlands

What's ahead for Open Source CMS?

<a href="http://sageframe.com/">Sageframe</a> is a free and open source ASP.NET CMS.
Founded in 2008 by <a href="http://www.braindigit.com/">Braindigit</a>, Sageframe aims to cater for novice personnel as well as seasoned developers, offering up a user friendly experience paired with some amazingly diverse functionality.
Sageframe promises to deliver scalable website solutions based on modular architectural design, enabling you to drag-and-drop and live-edit your way to a beautiful enterprise website.
The recent release of <a href="/sageframe-3.0-community-version-released/?utm_content=buffer83a70&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=app.net&amp;utm_campaign=buffer#.UzTG_PldVyg" target="_blank">Sageframe 3.0</a> brought about a number of new features, including automatically responsive templates, to-do lists, and personalized dashboards. 
It's also worth noting that Sagreframe was recently crowned winner of the <a href="/2014-best-open-source-net-cms/">People’s Choice CMS Award 2014 for Best Open Source .NET CMS</a>. It fought off some stiff competition, too.
I will now delve into Sageframe and ascertain just how fitting this recent award is. I’ll be exploring the good bits, the bad bits and everything in between, with the aim of producing an accurate verdict. 
<h2>Initial Thoughts</h2>
All my reviews begin at the vendor website, and this review is no different. It’s a solid way to gauge how the quality of the product, even before you get your hands on it.
Thankfully, <a href="http://sageframe.com/">Sageframe’s website</a> is sleek and informative – which is always a good sign.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sshot-1700x0.png" />
After a quick browse through the different pages, I could begin to see that Sageframe were claiming to offer more than just a free CMS:
<blockquote>
“Along with the software, you get our forum support, a list of free modules and get to be a part of a dedicated Sageframe community. This will definitely get you started for a whole new experience of creating all purpose websites using SageFrame.”
</blockquote>
Sageframe’s website copy boasts that the framework is “highly extensible”, pushing its open source nature and custom application creation as key features.
Sageframe comes in three flavours. Sageframe (The Community Edition, which is what this review focuses on), Sagever. and SageCMS.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sshot-2700x0.png" />
The community edition is lightweight and perhaps easier for developers to adjust to and work with, whilst Sagever comes bundled with premium Sageframe modules, and is geared towards seasoned web developers. SageCMS is even further advanced.
Sageframe Community Edition 3.0 is the edition I will be focusing on in this review.
<h2>Getting Started</h2>
If you've never tried Sageframe before, you'll be glad to know that it's easy to test it out. Simply visit <a href="http://sageframe.com/" target="_blank">Sageframe.com</a> and click the demo link to thrust yourself into the demo environment, which allows you to test out Sageframe's administrative interface.
Signing into Sageframe will give you access to the admin dashboard, which is easy enough on the eyes.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sshot-31079x0.png" />
The dashboard is well designed and laid out, boasting a welcome message which includes some instructional videos and links to relevant documentation. 
You will find a grid menu displaying quick links to things like pages, templates, files, users and messages. Plus, there's a small analytics module showing the total number of visitors that your website has had, categorised by country. It's a nice little feature, but it's a shame you can't customise what this widget shows. Instead, you'll have to visit the analytics pages directly to find other stats. 
The dashboard also comes loaded with a To-do list, which I will touch on later in this review. 
Two more widgets make up the dashboard, with the “Portal Snapshot” showing some general information, while the To-do List widget awaits some tasks — another feature I'll be detailing later on.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sshot-41079x0.png" />
As far as customization goes, clicking the small gear icon at the top of the dashboard reveals some basic appearance options, 
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sshot-51079x0.png" />
You can choose between three different colour schemes and adjust the sidebar position. Nothing amazing, but it's nice to have the choice. 
<h3>Live Editing</h3>
When it comes to the front end of your Sageframe project, you can edit the website in a “live” environment by simply visiting the website while signed in as an admin.
Whenever you do this, small pencil icons will appear next to each page section and element, including the site title, navigation menu, and so forth.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sshot-61079x0.png" />
Clicking on a pencil brings up a window containing relevant editor. For example, a section containing text will bring up a text editor, whereas a section containing a slider will present you with options and settings concerning the slides.
<img style="display:block;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto" src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sshot-7.png" />
The point is, thanks to this live editing interface, almost anybody can make changes to content and design in a way which doesn’t require much technical knowledge. In fact, it doesn’t require any technical knowledge to edit in this way.
Of course, the live editing isn’t entirely comprehensive, but it’s definitely a useful feature. It makes quickly refining some copy or swapping an image a lot easier, and a lot faster.
But — and there is a big but — Sageframe’s live editor isn’t as smooth as it should be. The window that pops up simply needs to look and work a little better.
It isn’t centered on the screen, it isn’t the right size, and the window itself doesn’t display everything in one screen, forcing you to scroll down to find the “Save” button.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sshot-8.png" />
You can move the window around and make it full-screen, but that shouldn’t be the only way to make it look presentable. It would be far better to see some more effort go into the design of this feature
<h3>Adding Pages</h3>
To add a new page, you’ll need to visit the dashboard, and navigate over to “Manage Site” and then “Pages”.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sshot-91079x0.png" />
Here, you will find a nifty drag-and-drop page creation interface. Depending on the setup of yout template, which I will come to later, you can choose between page layouts, and then move modules into place. These include logos, banners, text and so on.
You can also edit all of the modules by clicking the pencil icon, bringing up a similar window found when live-editing from the front end.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sshot-10.png" /> Again, this is a very user friendly way to go about building a page. It's easy, it makes sense, and you can even switch to mobile view.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sshot-11.png" /> The mobile view enables you to customize the page's appearance on mobile devices with the same drag-and-drop interface. A truly awesome feature. 
You can also preview pages before they go live, but for some reason there is no “Save as Draft” option. The pages are probably auto-saved, but still, it would be nice to have that feeling of safety when building a page. 
Also, a button for extra page editing options pertaining to SEO, link structure and so forth should also be here, but it isn't. Instead, you need to right-click on the page you want to edit, and then click “Edit Page”.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sshot-12.png" /> Only then will these options appear. They include designating parent pages, captions, META keywords, and so forth.
<h2>Templates &amp; Design</h2>
Sageframe offers templates through the Sageframe Extensions page. They all look good, but there aren’t many. Six, to be precise. 
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sshot-14.png" />
There’s no way to live preview themes before you download and install them either. A screen shot is the best you’ll get.
Six isn’t many templates at all, and although this is probably meant to encourage the community to go out and build upon existing templates, or build their own from scratch (which they undoubtedly would have done), it would still be beneficial for more ready-made templates to be provided. After all, Sageframe is supposed to be for novices, too.
Thankfully though, for the small number of templates on offer, Sageframe does a very good job when it comes to customization.
<h3>Customization</h3>
You can edit existing templates by heading over to “Manage Site” and then “Templates”.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sshot-15.png" /> Here, you can click click “Customize” on any of the uploaded templates you have. This allows you to edit Pages (as previously described), Presets and Layouts. as far as Presets are concerned, you can configure the default layouts for different pages, devices and so forth.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sshot-16.png" />
Via the Layout Manager, you can edit existing layouts and create brand news ones using a drag-and-drop editor. It's similar to building a page, except these are the structures which you can later build you pages with. 
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sshot-171079x0.png" /> It all works quite nicely, and it's pretty easy to use, too.
If you need to edit the code directly, you can do so by heading back to the templates page, and clicking “Edit Files”. this brings you to the Template File Manager, where you can download all of your files. There is no built-in editor though, unfortunately. 
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sshot-181079x0.png" />
<h2>Addons &amp; Extras</h2>
There are a number of free Sageframe extensions, available via the Sageframe Extensions page.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sshot-131079x0.png" />
Such extensions include modules like FAQs, table builders, galleries, mega menus, and so forth. There's a healthy range, to be fair.
But the number of extensions is less healthy. There are forty different extensions in total, which isn't too bad of a number, but there certainly could be more. In fact, there certainly should be more. 
<h3>Search Engine Optimization (SEO)</h3>
By clicking “Settings” on the sidebar, and then “SEO”, some (rather limited) SEO options are displayed.
The page allows you to insert Google Analytics tracking code, which is something better suited for the “Site Analytics” section. 
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sshot-191079x0.png" /> You can also configure which pages you want search engine robots to leave out when they crawl your website, in case you have any pages that are under construction. 
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sshot-201079x0.png" />
It also allows you to generate a sitemap and submit it to Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask, which is a nice touch.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sshot-211079x0.png" />
I kind of expected to find more though. There's no area to enter META data or tags, for example.
<h3>To-do Lists</h3>
Sageframe displays To-do lists on the dashboard, albeit quite far down the page.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sshot-22.png" />
To add to the list, you just have to click the “Add” button above it. you can also search through the list by keyword, and categorise it by date. It's a very handy widget to have on the homepage, especially for teams of writers and developers trying to communicate.
The only problem is, you have to scroll down to see it. I'd much prefer it if the to-do list widget and analytics widget swapped places. Or better yet, if I was able to move these widgets around freely. 
<h3>Analytics</h3>
If you head over to “Site Analytics” on the sidebar, you will find a range of neatly presented charts and data tables. 
<img style="display:block;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto" src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sshot-23.png" />These built-in analytics report on visits, page views, country, and monthly accumulated visits. A list of referring website can also be found under the “Data” section of the page.  <img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sshot-24.png" /> You can view all stats by date, and export them via PDF or Excel, which means creating monthly or weekly reports would be pretty easy. Combined with Sageframe's support for Google analytics tracking codes, I'd say it does a pretty stellar job on the analytics front.
On another note, it's worth mentioning that Braindigit, the company behind SageFrame, also provide further functionality through another one of their products, AspxCommerce. The eCommerce platform can be combined with Sageframe to add eCommerce functionality, although the process behind this is unclear and not well documented. Nonetheless, the option is there.
<h2>Getting Help</h2>
Support is Sageframe’s Achilles' Heel.
Surprisingly, users wishing to use a simple support ticket will need to shell out $5 for the privilege each time they run into an issue. It’s not a large amount of money, but charging people per ticket is pretty outlandish. Oh, and if you want “Premium Support”, you'll need to have a spare $2,799 lying around.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sshot-27.png" />
Sageframe does serve up a rather detailed documentation library, full with guides to do with working with Sageframe's settings, analytics, users, and so forth.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sshot-251079x0.png" />
The categories are listed down the left hand side, with further options appearing when you click on one. But, I noticed that not all categories well populated. “Working with SEO” and “Working with Files” for example, were empty.
Furthermore, the video tutorial section was populated with helpful videos, but they were all out of date, focusing on Sageframe 2.0. <img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sshot-261079x0.png" />
The only other free support solution though, is the Sageframe community forum. It’s there, it’s relatively active, but I wouldn’t call it a busy support hub. At the time of writing, it has been almost two weeks since the last post.
So once again, if you’re not an experienced web developer, Sageframe could cause issues for you. Because a novice will almost certainly run into a few issues along their way, and unless that issue is covered by the documentation, the only other real solution is to pay up for a support ticket.
<h2>The Verdict</h2>
There's a lot to like about Sageframe. For a free and open source product, one can have a lot of fun tinkering and experimenting with existing templates and modules, as well as creating some new ones.
The dashboard is professionally designed and easy to use. Live-editing is also a handy feature for any CMS to have in its arsenal. Furthermore, features pertaining to users, roles, CDNs, multiple portal creation and management, language localization and backend job scheduling make it possible to create anything from one pagers to large enterprise websites with multiple users collaborating and contributing. 
But, as an open source product, I feel that Sageframe needs more support from its community to excel. Templates are scarce, and the extensions library is hardly overflowing. There is work to be done, and if Sageframe can't inspire their community to take part, then they need to lead the way themselves. 
So, as far as flexibility goes, each individual user will need to put some extra effort in to bring their project into being, depending on how ambitious their project is of course. This is unfortunately down to the lack of templates, extensions and support at Sageframe.
<h3>Pros</h3>
<ul>
<li>Sageframe has a clean, user friendly and customizable dashboard.</li>
<li>Live-editing makes it easy to edit websites quickly fron the front end.</li>
<li>Very powerful customization editor when it comes to page and website layout.</li>
<li>Sageframe websites are always responsive, and a mobile-view template editor helps you customize the appearance on mobile devices.</li>
<li>Pages and Portals are easy to set up and manage.</li>
<li>User and role types are easy to set up and manage.</li>
<li>Easy to access and manage event logs, CDNs, SQL and cache maintenance.</li>
<li>Fairly detailed documentation.</li>
<li>Handy to-do-list widget.</li>
<li>Built-in analytics.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Cons</h3>
<ul>
<li>The live-editing feature needs attention in terms of design and presentation.</li>
<li>Sageframe doesn't have very strong support solutions. Support tickets cost $5 each.</li>
<li>Not enough documentation on how to integrate with AspxCommerce. Perhaps future versions of Sageframe should come with AspxCommerce extensions built-in. </li>
<li>Not enough Templates.</li>
<li>No code-less design customization (colour palettes, backgrounds, and so forth).</li>
<li>Not enough Addons.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Final Remarks</h2>
Sagreframe is undoubtedly a powerful platform.
It’s capable of building all sorts of websites, and it’s true that even a web development novice could make it work — although I wouldn’t recommend it.
Sure, Sageframe is relatively simple for such a dynamic CMS, but it’s fair to say that simplicity isn’t Sageframe’s strongest suit. There are countless platforms out there that offer a more friendly approach to the less experienced.
Also, Sageframe's claim to offer a users a dedicated community seems to be lacking somewhat. An open source project like this needs a thriving community, and I think Sageframe need to invest more time and effort into building a solid fanbase, rather than a client base. 
Having said that though, if you do know what you’re doing when it comes to code, web development and web design, Sageframe is worthy of your consideration.

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