Post pobrano z: Sitejet Review: The Perfect CMS for Web Design Agencies

It may be an old cliché, but “time is money”
is a phrase that rings true in the world of web design. With so much
competition in the industry, completing projects on time and to a high standard
is a constant struggle.

Web design agencies know this better than
most. As well as design work, staff have to juggle communicating with clients,
co-workers and managing projects all at the same time. As a result, the
software they choose to carry out all these tasks can have a big influence on
their overall productivity.

In most agencies, staff will use a number of
different productivity, chat and design tools to complete their work. Having
all this data spread out across different platforms can result in both delays
and things being missed, something that a new CMS called Sitejet
is hoping to solve.

An
All-Round CMS Package

Sitejet was created by four German web
designers as a way of streamlining their working process. The four men had
become frustrated at just how much time they were wasting by speaking with
their clients face-to-face or over the phone when other forms of communication
could prove just as effective.

As a result, they designed Sitejet not only as
a web design tool but also a creative hub where they could easily communicate
with clients and manage their projects at the same time.   

After completing over 4,000 websites using the
software, the men finally decided it was time to release it to the general
public this month. Find out whether we thought it lived up to the hype, below:

An
Easy-to-Use Design Tool with Extra Trimmings

Underpinning Sitejet’s raft of features is its
beginner-friendly web design tool. Automation is on hand here to help speed up
the design process. It can generate a site’s colour scheme purely from an
uploaded logo and create a site template using client briefing notes entered
into the system.

The software comes with dozens of ready-to-go
templates out of the box from a range of different industries. All these
templates, like all of the software’s in-built design tools, are fully
responsive to ensure that any site you make looks as good on mobile as it does
on a desktop.   

Whether you’re editing a generated template or
starting a site from scratch, Sitejet’s intuitive drag and drop blocks for
headers, forms and menus make design work a doddle. All the software’s features
are built-in, so you never have to spend time searching for relevant plugins.

Sitejet also allows users the chance to add
their own HTML, (S)CSS and JavaScript via the click of a button, so you can
tailor sites exactly to a client’s tastes. You can preview how any added code
affects a site’s skin using the interface’s “live site” preview tool. It’s here
where you can adjust your screen’s viewport to see exactly how a site will look
on every type of device. 

Manage
Every Project in One Place

Nearly all CMS offer website design tools.
Sitejet, however, is the only CMS that offers both a project management and
client communication suite as part of its package.

The final result is an end-to-end CMS that
seamlessly integrates everything you need as a web designer.

Sitejet’s project management screen allows you
to see every site you and your co-workers are working on. From here, you can
assign tasks, complete to-do lists and track what your fellow team members are
doing. This integrated dashboard makes it easy to move around resources should
an urgent task arise.

The software’s customer portal lets you
contact and share files much in the same way as any other popular collaboration
software tool. It also features a client privileges toggle, which allows you to
pick which elements of a site your client can access and edit. 

One standout feature of the portal is the
client comment feature. This feature allows clients to leave written feedback
on top of the skin of the website, making it easier to decipher any requested
changes.

Conclusion

Sitejet is a CMS designed by web designers for
web designers, and it shows. The little touches, such as keyboard shortcuts and
automatic updates, all help to create a cohesive design system that has been
optimised for speed. 

Perhaps more importantly, it manages to achieve this
without sacrificing the thing that matters most – client interaction. For that
reason, as well as the many points mentioned above, Sitjet is a must-try CMS
for any sized web design agency.

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