This year’s winner of the People’s Choice Award for Best Budget CMS goes to the ever popular Concrete5! Congratulations to everyone at Concrete5 for their awesome work. Concrete5 makes running a website easy. Go to any page in your site, and a editing toolbar gives you all the controls you need to update your website… Read More →
Recently, Concrete5 5.6.0 was released and it brings some new features to the popular open source CMS… Read More →
concrete5 today announced that it has redesigned the company’s admin dashboard to leverage Twitter Bootstrap. An early pioneer of in-context editing, concrete5 gained popularity due to its ease of use for managing the content of websites… Read More →
A new version of Concrete5 is now available. Here are some of the changes from the release announcement: We completely changed the way installation works so it is much easier to build a starting point. You can even install completely from the command line. We also took the time to rethink Scrapbooks which had evolved “organically” and had any number of issues. Now there’s Stacks which let you clump different blocks together into one reusable element. Permissions, versions - everything you’d expect from a concrete5 page all work on a Stack… Read More →
We last reviewed Concrete5 in 2009 when it came onto the scene with a bang. Designers everywhere reacted to this new CMS with mixed feelings. Most of the people who tried it, were blown away and loved it. Today, we've gone back and put together a more current Concrete5 Review for you.There were a lot of WordPress and Joomla fans who were unimpressed with the way the system was being marketed at the time. Concrete5's fearless leader, Franz Maruna, was quick to point out that his system was better than the big two (Drupal and Joomla) and wasn't mincing words about it… Read More →
We're giving away one free copy of Concrete5's eCommerce module and one copy of the discussions module (total value: $155) to one lucky reader. All you have to do is follow CMS Critic on Facebook and send us a message with your name. We will draw the winner randomly this Friday. Good luck to all who enter and a big thanks to Franz from C5 for donating these great modules. Follow us here to win: http://www.facebook.com/cmscritic … Read More →
Two years after going open source, concrete5 now powers over 50,000 websites, only a small handful of which are actually hosted by the project's core team. Now concrete5 site owners can easily get support on a per instance basis regardless of where their site is being hosted. "The free forums and consulting services of many shops and freelancers have always provided a range of options to make a site work, but there was never a clear safety net for site owners until now." says Founder and CEO Franz Maruna… Read More →
concrete CMS was commercial software that went open source in late 2008, quickly winning project of the month on SourceForge and much attention from a community of open source fans used to dealing with painful user experiences and scattered code. During the last year the core team behind concrete5 has been flushing out features in their CMS, along with building an active community and marketplace at concrete5.org… Read More →
After many a poking and prodding and finally having to show him some whisky to get him off his pirate ship, we finally managed to snag some time with Franz Maruna of Concrete5. Be prepared for an entertaining read. CC: Thank you for taking the time to speak with us today, we know it's hard to find time amidst developing to break for some good quality questioning :) FM: Concrete5 is revolutionizing content management. It’s so easy to use - people can’t believe it. Finding the time to talk to people about c5 always easy and fun… Read More →
