Silverstripe Website Rates High on Usability

Silverstripe is a relative ‘new kid on the block’ in the world of open source website platforms. Although the company has been around for some years, it has really emerged as a major player in the open source CMS field in the last year or two.

The main benefit coming through in Silverstripe website reviews is how easy the platform is to use. It seems to be outperforming Joomla, Wordpress and Magento on this front. Templates are simple in structure and kept separate from code, which makes it quick and easy to build your website. This is a flexible platform that you don’t need programming or coding expertise to learn and navigate.

The Silverstripe CMS also rates highly on scalability – meaning you can easily add and remove pages and sections, adapt functionality and the system will cope, not requiring an inordinate amount of fiddly coding or time consuming site re-building.

Users also like the site hierarchy structure that is (again!) quick and easy to learn and use and has a huge amount of flexibility.

Silverstrip website snapshot:

• Sapphire framework for building websites
• Silverstripe CMS for editing websites
• Templates and codes are kept separate
• CMS easy to use and customise
• Logical and flexible site hierarchy
• Active online community of Silverstripe users for trouble shooting

Are there any drawbacks to Silverstripe

Fewer developers use Silverstripe than Joomla, Wordpress and Magento. This may lead to some problems with programming once your website is up and running and you are looking to develop it further down the track.