What we like about Concrete5

Concrete5 is one of the best content management systems in the market, because it has been designed to be really easy and intuitive to use. “In-context” editing means you can edit the pages on your website as you are looking at them. Catalyst2 is very experienced at hosting Concrete5, so contact us today for more information.

Concrete5 also has clever programmes built in so you can streamline your searches.

Highlights of Concrete5:

Innovation in the field

Concrete5 is an amazing system that has revolutionised the way you build and run a website thanks to its comprehensive platform with simple processes in place. It allows users to do literally anything they want, easily and professionally so they can focus on running their business.

With Concrete5, anyone can launch their own website in seconds, and the editing experience is very smooth and enjoyable. Not only will you get a system that is user friendly and powerful, but you’ll enjoy the versatility of the inbuilt functions, which allows changes to be made quickly and easily.

Great editing facilities

A key component of Concrete5’s technology is its editing facility. In-context editing and a useful WYSIWYG editor make it easy to customise your site exactly the way you want it, with no limits on creativity or the need to learn coding.

Your website will look incredible on any device, as Concrete5 allows you to build your site with state-of-the-art browsers especially designed to work well on phones, using all the latest HTML, CSS and JavaScript techniques.

Customising is fantastic

Concrete5 also offers a great deal of freedom when customising content to fit your needs or preferences. There are plenty of add-ons that allow you to extend your website and broaden your functionality, with quick-time installs through the site dashboard, as well as numerous others you can automatically install.

Form building is a breeze

The Form Builder feature is a great asset to any organisation. With Form Builder you can easily create and edit forms in minutes, allowing you to gather key information quickly.

There are so many other top features Concrete5 can offer:

• It can be installed very quickly
• Templates can be updated with one click
• Forms management (from creation to results reporting)
• Workflows with controlled content
• Discretional user permissions
• Ad-hoc reporting

Concrete5’s recognisable permissions let you manage the users of your site, including different groups. It is so powerful that it can be modelled on any publishing policy your organisation needs. You can create private and protected web pages that only specific members can assess.

Concrete5 is set up to search without the need for additional add-ons required, which is great for improving your search rankings. The in-built social share plugin is a powerful tool that allows you to display social share buttons for fast interaction.

Overview of Concrete5’s features:

Integrated Reporting Tool

Concrete5 allows users to create a variety of reports using a single interface. The reports collect results from surveys, error logs, user session tracking statistics, and email logging systems – absolutely any angle is covered.

Security Features

Concrete5 helps you protect your website from various security attacks. You can easily increase your website’s security using captcha prompts, email verification, content approval, SSL implementation, audit trial and login history capturing.

Blogs and Commenting

With Concrete5 you can easily integrate blogs into your websites, with brilliant features like topics, multiple authors, post display options, and RSS syndication. The best thing? These blogs can be customised to your exact specifications.

Social Integration and SEO

Concrete5 helps you divert traffic to your website from the top search engines and social networks. You can easily increase your search engine ranking and visibility by using the SEO features provided. The social share plug-ins included can also help to integrate your website with popular social networking platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Google+.

There’s no denying Concrete5 is an asset to any company. With its easy to use interface and amazing facilities, you will be amazed at what it can do!

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