Our Philosophy
We think people need to communicate better.
Deep down, we all have the same goals and dreams. The world would be a better place if everyone stopped worrying about "evil" and just started workin' it out together.
The web can help with that.
The web could be the most inexpensive and flexible communication system out there. It could be universally owned and used, and it could bring the barrier of entry down to zero for everyone.
So far it hasn't. It still takes a lot of money and technical skills to build and run a good looking website. We want to end that.
concrete5 makes it easy for anyone to build and manage a website.
What that means to website builders today...
First, we promise you COMPLETE control. concrete5 follows a MVC approach with a block-based architecture that gives developers a "playing with Legos" experience. You won’t be limited from a design or build prospective. You're not hacking away at some application that was meant to do something else. concrete5 gives you a toolbox of what you really need for any site, so you can focus on client-specific challenges.
Second, we let you promise your clients they'll be part of the process. Almost all other CMS's have intimidating backend administration consoles that you have to teach clients to use. That sucks. concrete5 gives site owners a tool bar on every page they visit in their website. Last minute emergency change to that copy full of typos they gave you? No problem – let your client fix it themselves. You end up with customers who are actually engaged in the creative process of running a website over time, so you get more interesting and well-informed work requests over the life of the relationship.
Third, you're in good company. We spent years as a commercial software shop where we were able to pick the bad ideas out from the good. We released concrete5 as a fully mature CMS in the summer of 2008 because we knew it worked well and we wanted to share it with the world. concrete5 is the ultimate tool-box and has served us well on many types of sites. Once you get comfortable building sites with concrete5, you'll wonder how you ever did it before.
Dubious? Read some testimonials.
