Spring Cutter from Creative Agency Secrets talks to Ash Huntley of FRED in a frank and open dialogue about being a Contegro Partner.

Why is Contegro your CMS of choice?

We used to use another commercial CMS based in Australia, as demand for websites grew in Taupo, we decided we needed to up our game. We looked at both open source and commercial CMSs including Contegro. Contegro appealed because they were very personal. We got to go up to Auckland and talk about CMS and they filled us in on the developer side of things. We started out using version 3 then upgraded to Version 4 which has been great.

What modules do you use? What's good about them?

Image gallery, form builder and email marketing modules in particular. We always use the last two together. Also the blog pros module. We have a client - Adult Literacy and Numeracy consultant - which relies on the blog for all of his learners to interact.

The product catalogue module on e-commerce websites combined with the shopping cart is great for getting repeat business, related products.

Also the podcast module for Adult Literacy client – He uses learning tutorials so that he can stream over the internet directly from his website– rather than uploading to youtube.

Have you used the Contegro Training Studio for training clients and staff?

Every time we get a website live we do a one-on-one training session and as a follow up we give them the link to the Contegro Training Studio that is embedded into our website – feedback has been so far good. It’s a really helpful tool, especially because it’s visual.

What did you like about the Contegro Training Studio?

I’m extremely familiar with the CMS, so I don’t personally use it, but it’s good to refer to if you want to go back to basics.

What did you feel could be improved on?

The CMS is pretty amazing. There are just a few teething issues with Version 4, CMS working in different browsers and scrolling abilities can sometimes get muddled up.

Thanks for being honest Ash, have you got anything else to add?

The support from Contegro has been great in the past. We recently just got a developer in-house and he has been relying on Contegro a lot to get up to speed, and they have been there every step of the way.

Thank you for your time!

No worries, always happy to be an advocate for Contegro. I believe it is one of the best Commercial Content Management Systems out there.