AH

Verified User in Higher Education

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/24/2020

"Easy to Manage website"

4/5

What do you like best about CommonSpot?

- Easy of UI

-UI components

- Templates that can be easily customized Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CommonSpot?

- no downside

- for me making mobile website portable was one challenge Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

UH

Verified User in Higher Education

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/30/2019

"Complicated "

3/5

What do you like best about CommonSpot?

It does work. The content/text editor is not too complicated, at least. And sites can look great if you know what you’re doing and don’t have too many authors working on the same pages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CommonSpot?

The content management piece is a nightmare on our site. It’s a huge website and there are hundreds of authors, with little consistency in organization. It’s almost impossible to find things (documents, photos, etc.). And within the content/text editor, if something at some point is messed up, such as font or formatting, it’s practically impossible to fix it. Might as well trash the page and start over. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering CommonSpot:

Make a plan for organizing content (tags, naming conventions, etc.) prior to implementation, use it and thoroughly train authors to use it while rolling it out, then STICK TO IT. Make sure it’s part of on-board training for potential authors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CommonSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?

We used CommonSpot to manage our website for many years, but are in the process of migrating (one subsite at a time) to Drupal. So right now the only benefit or business problem it’s helping to solve is providing continuity of service to our customers while we migrate the site. Currently half the website is on Drupal and the other half is still using CommonSpot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

UH

Verified User in Higher Education

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/12/2018

"Too Little, Too Late for this CMS"

0.5/5

What do you like best about CommonSpot?

The one thing I liked about CommonSpot was the ability to review specific history of edits: who, when, what. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CommonSpot?

It was extremely difficult to create responsive pages, and its tabling tools were buried deep in complex menus. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

BJ

Brittany J.

Computing Support Technician LTE

Higher Education

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/4/2016

"Not the Best"

1/5

What do you like best about CommonSpot?

As much as I would like to say things I like best, there's not a lot of things that I actually like about CommonSpot. If you like things where you can add boxes and update the information without any coding, this is the product for you. (But be warned, you don't have a lot of freedom.) I think the dashboard is the best part, but even then, it's really hard to learn if you are used to easy sites like WordPress, Wix or Weebly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CommonSpot?

It creates crap code. Even if you want to throw in your own nice and clean HTML it adds weird characters and doesn't display it the way you want it to. This site is super controlled by the people who integrated it into our business. It calls itself responsive, but isn't mobile friendly. It's really hard to work with, REALLY hard. It's not ADA compliant or SEO friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering CommonSpot:

If you want to keep this, be in every single meeting when they release something new, or you will be behind the learning curve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CommonSpot solving and how is that benefiting you?

We used CommonSpot for our webpages, and after fighting to get rid of it, we are finally moving elsewhere. CommonSpot was only good to display webpages and nothing else benefit us from working with it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.