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Tailor-made CMS websites for businesses and institutions
As an experienced Craft CMS agency, we develop custom, secure, and high-performance solutions that are perfectly aligned with the requirements of modern businesses. Our focus is on scalability, security, and ease of use to get the most out of your digital platforms. Craft CMS allows us to implement high-performance systems that adapt flexibly to your needs, ideal for companies that rely on future-proof technologies.
Are security and reliability critical for you? With Craft CMS, we deliver a platform that integrates seamlessly into your existing corporate infrastructure. Whether you need ERP or CRM integrations, complex multisite setups, or strict data protection and GDPR compliance, we provide solutions that take your business to the next level. Our security concepts include regular audits, penetration tests, and state-of-the-art encryption technologies to protect your data.
In a free initial consultation, we will explore together how to implement your requirements with Craft CMS: individually, securely, and efficiently. Rely on our expertise and let us turn your vision into reality.
We have already convinced various medium-sized companies as well as large corporations of the advantages Craft CMS offers compared to other systems.
A few years ago, when searching for alternatives to the long-standing favorite WordPress, which can't hide its inadequacies from experienced web developers, we came across Craft CMS. As a digital agency, we love engaging with new technologies and tapping into their potential for our clients. After careful testing, we quickly found our first customer who we could equally convince of the benefits of Craft CMS.
Since then, Craft CMS has been an integral part of our agency's technology stack. Craft CMS allows us, in the true sense of the word "craft", to demonstrate what can be achieved with the craft of coding. Craft CMS imposes no restrictions and does not force us to make compromises. Instead, it enables us to work freely and build amazing websites!
Craft CMS & Laravel
Craft CMS is changing its technical foundation. From version 6 onwards, it is built on Laravel – the framework at the heart of our daily work.
Until now, Craft CMS has been built on the Yii 2 framework. With Craft CMS 6, the core of the system has been fully ported to Laravel. The transition is not complete yet: Craft CMS 6 is in its pre-release phase and the stable version is still to come. Until then, Craft CMS 5 remains the production-ready basis for new and existing projects.
Very little changes for your editorial team: the control panel, the flexible content model, and the Twig templates keep their familiar logic. Once version 6 is released, Craft CMS 5 will continue to receive security and stability fixes for another five years. There is no time pressure, and you can approach an upgrade in a planned, low-risk way. We advise you on when the right moment has come.
Laravel has been our core framework for many years, and we are an official Laravel Community Partner. The move brings two of our specialisms together: modules, plugins, and integrations for Craft CMS will follow the same standards as our custom web applications. You benefit from a much larger ecosystem, a broader pool of developers, and a CMS that moves closer to custom Laravel applications.
Craft CMS is the ideal platform for custom digital projects that require both flexibility and the highest level of security. Whether for complex corporate websites or content-heavy projects, Craft CMS gives you a future-proof solution.
Craft CMS offers a highly user-friendly interface that allows editors and administrators to create and manage content intuitively without sacrificing flexibility.
With built-in security mechanisms such as custom access roles and two-factor authentication, Craft CMS guarantees a secure environment for your project, ideal for companies with high security requirements.
Craft CMS can be run as a headless CMS, giving you maximum flexibility in building frontend experiences. It integrates seamlessly with existing systems via APIs.
Craft CMS is built to deliver optimal performance even under heavy traffic. Our performance optimizations ensure that your website runs smoothly even during peak usage.
We make sure your Craft CMS installation stays up to date through regular updates and continuous monitoring, keeping it protected against current threats.
Craft CMS supports managing multiple websites within a single installation. This feature is ideal for companies that want to run multiple brands or locations efficiently.
With our tailored SEO strategies and the built-in SEO tools of Craft CMS, we increase your website's visibility in search engines and ensure continuous monitoring and optimization.
With Craft Commerce, Craft CMS offers seamless e-commerce integration. It is perfectly suited for managing product catalogs and orders and allows deep customization.
Craft CMS is modular and easy to extend. We develop custom plugins and extensions to meet your specific business requirements.
Craft CMS offers many advantages over the traditional alternatives. It stands out through its flexibility and adaptability, enabling designers and developers to create tailor-made solutions.
Craft CMS is essentially installed "empty" at first, but this turns out to be a big advantage. Everything is configured exactly according to the jointly defined blueprint, without compromises and unnecessary ballast.
In Craft CMS, it is "content comes first". Any content types can be created from the backend and equipped with the necessary input fields, categories, or even versatile content builders. All out of the box.
Want to manage multiple websites through one system? No problem. Craft CMS offers this as a core feature, and does it so well and thoroughly that, in our opinion, no other CMS comes close. And the best part: You only need one license, no matter how many sites are set up.
Translating websites is no problem with Craft CMS. Out of the box, the system offers an incredibly well-thought-out and equally flexible localization concept. There are virtually no limits to internationalizing your website.
A must-have for any professional website these days: Powerful tools for search engine optimization. With the approach of free configurability, the optimal setup can be created for every project. And alternatively, there is also an established SEO plugin.
A frequently requested feature by website editors is a live view while editing content. Craft CMS offers a first-class and intuitive solution for this.
Because the system is fundamentally configured for each project, Craft CMS can be extended without any issues while in operation. This way, the system can grow along with your company.
With Craft Commerce, Craft CMS can be scaled up to a full-fledged and powerful online store. This feature comes directly from the manufacturer and is thus guaranteed to be fully compatible with Craft CMS.
Craft CMS can also be used as a headless CMS, a pure backend CMS that primarily serves as a content repository. Through powerful interfaces, your external frontends can be centrally managed.
In our agency, we love Craft CMS because it fully corresponds to our philosophy and understanding of valuable web development. It's just great for us to be able to create a customized product in every aspect for our clients. It's about designing the perfect creative and technical framework around a sophisticated content concept. This is certainly not comparable to traditional craftsmanship, but we do not hesitate to draw parallels.
With Craft CMS, we have a powerful and incredibly versatile tool at our disposal that perfectly fits our working style. Over the past years, we have perfected our handling of this tool. This means for you: With hardly any other solution do vision and reality come together as quickly and smoothly, provided one knows how to use its potential.
Our customers come from all sectors and range from online shopping giants, to established industrial companies, to ambitious startups. They all rely on our meticulous eye for both design and code development. With over 16 years of experience and more than 350+ realized projects, we work effectively, trustingly, and always at eye level with our customers. We like to know our customers personally, understand the value of reliable and long-term partnerships, and nurture these just as we do the careful management of budgets.
And our clients appreciate that they not only receive top-notch, individual Craft CMS projects, but can also rely on the full consulting expertise of a modern digital agency.
In addition to outstanding corporate websites and comprehensive project support, we also offer individual services associated with Craft CMS.
Craft CMS can do almost anything. And if there is something it can't do, we are your partner to appropriately extend its functionality with modules or plugins.
The headless approach is becoming increasingly popular for driving an effective content strategy. Thanks to its GraphQL API, Craft CMS is ideally suited to be used as a headless CMS.
We have many years of experience in implementing multilingual websites and/or multisite systems. We bring this experience to your Craft CMS project as well.
Do you think your rankings on search engines can be improved? We analyze the current situation and are able to quickly reveal potential improvements.
With our maintenance service, we keep your Craft CMS up to date, making it safer and extending the lifespan of your website.
Already using Craft CMS but think that your website needs a performance boost to keep up with your competitors? We know what to do to increase the loading speed.
Craft CMS sets new standards through an innovative content concept coupled with an intuitive author interface. A top-of-the-line image editing tool allows for image editing including the definition of so-called focal points, which are enormously helpful in displaying responsive images. The positive user experience is rounded off with an advanced SEO module and a brilliantly implemented live preview and editing view.
The approach of the common CMS systems on the market is based on a predefined standard structure for the content and its architecture. This predefined structure can then be adapted to the requirements of the client. Craft CMS takes the exact opposite approach, offering smart tools to define the content structure and necessary input fields yourself, completely made to measure. Craft CMS is therefore designed to create the system structure that best suits your requirements.
The Craft CMS system does not impose any specifications on the website. This way, it can be precisely adapted to any existing concepts by a developer. And not only in the frontend but also in the backend. With the right configuration, you have a perfectly tailored author's dashboard at your disposal, which covers all functions as desired. Unlike its competitors, developers start setting up a configuration with a blank sheet of paper and can present their "craft", their craftsmanship, without hindrance.
Craft CMS has unique features that make it usable for other types of web applications as well. Through the extensive user and rights management, portals or internal systems as well as headless CMS approaches can be implemented. Depending on the need, e-commerce and online shop functions can be implemented from the start or retrofitted later. With Craft Commerce, the provider offers an official solution including support.
Below, we answer a few more questions that we regularly receive from interested parties.
Craft CMS is, if the intended use is of a business nature, a commercial content management system. However, compared to other paid solutions, the price is currently very low at an initial $299 per project. This price covers all updates within the first year. From the second year onwards, a reduced fee of currently $59 is charged. This secures further access to system updates and security releases.
If you want to implement an online shop with Craft CMS, the official shop extension Craft Commerce is required. This, like Craft CMS, also comes from Pixel & Tonic. The costs for a Craft Commerce license are currently $999. For simple shops that only offer one product (e.g. donations, subscriptions, or other paid content), the cheaper Lite version can be purchased for currently $199.
It can be quite difficult at times to convince a potential customer to use a less common CMS, especially one that also comes with licensing fees.
We understand this at its core, but we would like to list a few points where Craft CMS stands out from other systems:
We think these are a whole lot of good reasons. With a one-time cost of $299 followed by $59 yearly for update licenses, the costs for commercial use are very manageable. Especially when you consider that we provide you with a state-of-the-art, high-performance website with Craft CMS that meets your goals and boosts your online success.
It is difficult to make a definitive statement about the security of a particular CMS. However, it is a fact that Craft CMS, due to its lesser popularity, is a significantly less attractive target for attacks than, for example, WordPress.
Furthermore, Craft CMS is a relatively new system, meaning many of its core components are programmed according to current developer standards. The technology stack and the system and database architecture support the assertion that this system was built and is maintained by very experienced developers.
The circumstance of it being a commercial yet source-open system is also an indication of more security. The code can be viewed at any time, and the team behind it is backed by a funding model that makes the efforts for further development profitable. The same applies to the plugin directory. The plugins listed here adhere to the quality standards defined in the documentation and are equally chargeable. Consequently, it is also assured that plugin developers are remunerated for their valuable work. Despite this, in the area of plugins, we as a web agency follow the approach of avoiding plugins as much as possible if a feature can be realized with reasonable effort and in a user-friendly way through core-side means. Our main concern is to keep dependencies low. This creates additional security for your project based on Craft CMS.
Furthermore, the principle applies that up-to-date software is generally considered effective protection against vulnerabilities and security gaps. Therefore, any software publicly deployed on the web should be regularly and carefully maintained. Craft CMS fulfills this premise, as evidenced by the very short intervals between software update releases. These consistently provide bug fixes, new features, and changes, and, true to its reputation as a fundamentally secure system, barely any security patches. The version history can be tracked here. Feel free to contact us if you are interested in having your Craft CMS website maintained.
Craft CMS offers a demo version. Simply visit the following website demo.craftcms.com and sign up for a non-binding test. Alternatively, you can also contact us and we will show you the system from the inside in a personal conversation or a video conference.
Free initial consultationCraft CMS offers a demo version. Simply visit demo.craftcms.com and sign up for a no-obligation test run. Alternatively, feel free to get in touch with us, and we'll walk you through the system in person or via video call.
Making a definitive statement about the security of any specific CMS is difficult. What is clear, though, is that Craft CMS, simply due to its smaller market share, is a significantly less attractive target for attacks than, for example, WordPress.
Craft CMS is also a comparatively new system, meaning many of its core components are built according to current development standards. In general, the tech stack along with the system and database architecture suggest that this system was built and is maintained by highly experienced developers.
The fact that it's a commercial yet open-source system is another indicator of stronger security. The code can be reviewed at any time, and the team behind it is backed by a funding model that makes ongoing development financially viable. The same applies to the plugin directory: plugins listed there meet the quality standards defined in the documentation and are likewise paid products. This also ensures that plugin developers are fairly compensated for their valuable work. That said, as a web agency, our general approach across all CMS solutions is to avoid plugins wherever possible, as long as a feature can be implemented in a user-friendly way through core functionality with reasonable effort. Our main goal here is to keep dependencies to a minimum, which adds an extra layer of security to your Craft CMS project.
Beyond that, there's a general principle that up-to-date software is widely regarded as effective protection against vulnerabilities and security gaps. Accordingly, any software used publicly on the web should be maintained regularly and carefully. Craft CMS lives up to this standard, as shown by the very short intervals between software updates. These updates reliably deliver bug fixes, new features, and other changes, and true to its reputation as a fundamentally secure system, they rarely include security patches. You can track the full version history here. Feel free to reach out if you're interested in maintenance for your Craft CMS website.
Craft CMS is a commercial content management system, provided it's used for business purposes. However, compared to other paid solutions, the price is quite low, currently starting at an initial $299 per project. This price covers all updates within the first year. Starting in the second year, a reduced fee of currently $59 is charged. This ensures continued access to system updates and security releases.
If you want to build an online shop with Craft CMS, you'll need the official shop extension, Craft Commerce. Like Craft CMS, it's also developed by Pixel & Tonic. A Craft Commerce license currently costs $999. For simple shops that offer only a single product (e.g., donations, subscriptions, or other paid content), the more affordable Lite version is available for currently $199.
It can sometimes be quite challenging to convince a potential client to use a less common CMS, especially one that comes with licensing fees.
We understand this concern at its core, but we'd like to highlight a few points where Craft CMS stands out from other systems:
We think that's quite a list of good reasons. At $299 one-time plus $59 annually for update licenses, the costs for commercial use are very manageable, especially when you consider that with Craft CMS, we create a cutting-edge, high-performance website for you that meets your goals and boosts your online success.
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