CommonSpot Reviews & Product Details

I like how engaged the customer care team is. There's a quick responsive and display of consistent concern over user experience. That makes all the difference, especially if you don't have a colleague you can consult or if you need an answer quickly from someone who knows the system very well. For that alone, I would recommend at least consulting with the Commonspot team if you reconsidering how to manage your online presence and make the best use of your resources. I think the return on investment will likely be very worthwhile. And, it is exciting to try new things. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As with any new tool, there's a learning curve. It takes time to learn all the features, and being self-employed, there's always a balance between time invested, resource and/or financial management, and the concern about return on investment. But the customer team is very responsive and have made themselves readily available for help. There are lots of benefits to the platform and, and I really recommend that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Flexible, scalable and built on ColdFusion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Would like more drag and drop and a larger baked in widget library, but there is not limit so I built in all the widgets I could ever need using open source JavaScript libraries etc... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

intuitive navigation, user friendliness. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

cannot recall many things but there were some quirks and display errors. A short tutorial for new starter with no experience could have been helpful too Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The content editor is pretty nice from what I remember and it was extendable using coldfusion so if there was something more in depth you needed you do you could do it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The menus and tree selections were very deep and sometimes hard to navigate or remember where things were..Sometimes ajax loaders would timed out but I think it had to due with inner network connections between. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CommonSpot templates provide functionality without scripting. Integrating YouTube with CommonSpot was an easy process. It also wasn't a challenging CMS to learn. Having been a student at UW-Eau Claire I applied a web content steward who had slim to no technology systems experience. From day one I found that CommonSpot was easy to understand and I knew I had help if needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Eventually the university decided to upgrade to use Drupal/Athena because it offered a better design platform that looked more modern. CommonSpot, although easy to use, did seem out of date. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

-Relatively easy to modify a sub-site with a custom template

-Good real-time WYSIWYG page editor that could handle components (paragraphs, images, custom components etc)

-Page editor shows the template and styles being used, other CMS don't do this (or don't do this well)

-Pages loaded fast Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

-Figuring out menus for certain folders / sub-sites can be a bit tricky Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ease of use. I received a couple hours of training then felt comfortable using the software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There wasn't much I disliked but I did use a decent amount of trial and error. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I appreciate how user friendly the software is. Making routine edits is easy and I can easily step back in and not spend a ton of time trying to figure out all the features. The administrators were able to make a clean theme for users, and users did not have to worry about messing things up! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some of the more advanced features differ greatly from the competitors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I used CommonSpot for work on the www.ccny.cuny.edu web site.

It was very easy to integrate with existing coldfusion applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some problems with scaling when website was being hit very hard. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that it’s easy to edit content and make updates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hard to navigate, especially for large businesses with multiple tiers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.