Why Craft CMS?

A stand out feature of Craft CMS, especially in comparison to Wordpress, is the ease of use for content authors. Craft allows us to customise the content management experience to ensure our clients have an intuitive and logical way of updating their website. Unlike Wordpress, which is bloated to begin with and often requires an array of plugins to reach a good level of usability, Craft starts as a clean slate and only contains what is needed for the client and their website.

Efficient and performant websites are vital - search engines and users both penalise slow websites through lower rankings and abandonment.

Craft CMS is built with performance in mind - its lightweight code base and efficiency “under the hood” means it only delivers components when they’re required, keeping things zippy.

Wordpress sites might start speedy however they can quickly become sluggish once they get bloated with plugins (and require more plugins to resolve the speed issue!)

There’s more to a fast website than just the CMS (like the right hosting provider and environment) but Craft CMS has enabled us to deliver high performing websites proven on the popular page speed tests.

Craft CMS takes security seriously. Coupled with our maintenance and security package, Craft CMS’s regularly released updates allow any bugs and security issues to be fixed quickly. Behind the scenes, Craft is built to prevent common attacking methods like SQL injection and cross-site forgery.

Unfortunately, due to their large market share and vast amount of open-source plugins, Wordpress websites are a popular target for hackers. Without a solid security plan and very regular updates to the core and it’s plugins, a Wordpress website will always be a security risk.

Web accessibility means creating websites that can be used by everyone, regardless of ability or situation. The flexibility of Craft CMS means it’s best placed to deliver a fully accessible website on the front-end and with every release they’re working towards being fully AA compliant in the back-end.

While both Wordpress and Craft CMS are striving towards accessibility standards, Craft CMS was recently appointed for the W3C website and Accessibility London website projects, clearly demonstrating it’s at the forefront.

Some common concerns with Craft are around it’s developer support and reliability. While definitely not as widely used as Wordpress, the Craft CMS team (Pixel and Tonic) provide second-to-none support and have cultivated a strong community of developers.

As a super developer-friendly platform, it’s a preferred CMS for many developers across SA and the whole of Australia, who are also active in feeding back into Craft to help it continue to evolve and improve.

Craft CMS are continually release updates and providing visible roadmaps for future developments - to put it simply, they’re growing steadily and are not going anywhere.

When you’re investing in a new website, you need to make sure it does everything you need it to do, and can be scaled for future growth.

Based in Adelaide, Brighter brings design and development expertise together to create websites that meet our clients’ needs precisely.

That’s why, when it comes to digital development, we build our sites on CraftCMS.

Craft’s content management system and commerce platform offers best-in-market user functionality and usability.

It’s a digital solution that our clients love - and we’re sure you will too.

Find out more about working with Brighter and Craft CMS

CraftCMS is a superior choice for businesses looking for a powerful, performant and stable website. It offers a higher level of customisation, flexibility, security and support compared to WordPress, allowing businesses to create unique websites that stand out from the competition.

Keep reading to find out why.