Why Sitefinity?
Style and Construction
This platform’s distinct makeup is easy and extensible. It also gives a boost to .NET development controls like CSS, master pages, standard user controls and templates. Your current website or system can easily be accommodated with the Sitefinity CMS.
Page layout
Controls are responsible for a page in Sitefinty CMS while the layout of its page is made up by using templates and themes. Each page consists of various properties like a title, Meta tags and the URLs. A page constructed on SiteFinity CMS however is made from scratch and does not need an underlying file.
Controls
The various controls in Sitefinity support the content on the page and its functionality. Many kinds of controls can be used to alter web pages. These controls are built-in, module based, user or custom. Users of Sitefinity can enjoy the comprehensive suite of Telerik’s revolutionary new software, RadControls for CMS ASP.NET Ajax.
Modules
Modules can be described as small but versatile applications that reside inside the Sitefinity CMS. These autonomous applications can come in several forms and modules such as Blogs, News, and Images and Documents. Sitefinity CMS is highly flexible because many new modules can be incorporated with it.
Services
Controls and pages are completely visible aspects of Sitefinity as they can be easily modified. Services however, are usually hidden to the end user. A common example of a service is the search option, which requires indexing the content at the back end.
Model of the Provider
Everything within Sitefinity CMS is developed based on the Provider model. Developers can use built in CMS ASP.NET features including Profiles, Sitemap, and Membership accompanied with several databases and settings. Just a very small amount of coding and alterations are necessary.
Framework Personalization
Sitefinity provides Framework Personalization which enables an API for accumulating different information according to every single user. By utilizing this API, a developer can avail benefits from this feature when creating controls or modules.
Flexible and Versatile
The flexible architecture and completely exposed API allow Sitefinity to be easily adaptable to any module, control, service, or totally new system that is incorporated with it. Developers can save time and effort be reusing existing features, while creating versatile public pages and their content.
Sitefinity offers Web Garden and Web Farm Support
When internet traffic becomes too much for you to handle on your website, building a web farm to manage it might just be the thing to keep it under control. Constructing a web farm and having multiple servers on a network acts as a single server that can make traffic much more manageable. Sitefinity CMS accommodates these network needs since it fully supports Webfarm and Webgarden environments.
Boosts Caching
Sitefinity CMS can also give page caching abilities a leg up which are integral in eliminating performance issues. This is important since caching is directly responsible for it cutting down the time it takes to access a web page and improves on delivery speed as well. A responsive environment with a fast loading speed can also guarantee user satisfaction.
Substitution controls on a cached page
As a convenient platform, Sitefinity CMS also consists of base classes that are used for the execution of cache-dependent controls. Not only do these base classes give a cached page the capability to update automatically, but also make the controls much more dynamic.
