Really clean product website. I like the grid and the way the images of the browser with the sites in them are placed on the page in this design. It’s the standard “here’s a browser with our stuff in it” but it feels different with the way they’ve treated it. That and the strong grid make this a really good looking site.
Make sure and check out our screen cast review of symphony-cms.com for more in-depth details of what we thought.
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Great Review. I like the clean look, I would be interested to try out this cms.
One thing that really caught my eye was the giant comment box with the WMD editor on the ‘Get Support > Contact’ page.
Thanks Gene and Jay for reviewing the website. You guys kicked the main issues right in the mansacks!
I’ve made a quick video to answer some of the questions raised in the review: http://symphony-cms.com/discuss/blog/entry/unmatched-style-video-response/.