Storyblok

Vorteile

Generating content for an international audience through Storyblok’s internationalization and localization tools is so easy for our team. We’ve accessed our data via a meaningful GraphQL API. Also, I like StoryBlok’s Intelligence in producing and auto converting content to responsive pages and visible on all devices with any page size and resolution.

Nachteile

The development team is constantly making useful changes, and everything will be better if they develop UI.

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Warum Storyblok gewählt wurde

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Vorteile

Story and content management through customised software in easiest way
Tech savvy and user friendly softwrae. Everyone can use and operate the same at all the times.
Highly stable across all kinds of business environments
One of the smallest tools to create and manage content services for all the businesses.
Cost optimization is achieved within 6 months of its usage

Nachteile

There is more of manual clicking on its interface. Any small change request took their business team several days to resolve and stablise the software.
We are using library editor for editing purpose. It often hangs and does not save changes while operation
Interface experience could be further improved to next level.

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Vorteile

It's hard to like something when nothing seems to work and you waste countless time and other resources on it.

Nachteile

This product has cost our business countless hours and resources in implementation due to its unparalleled level of bugs. They have a V1 and V2 beta. However, neither V1 or V2 work. Both our team of editors and developers have been rage clicking the platform for weeks now, trying their best to implement it, only to be met with one bug after another. This is expensive software and there are far better options than this. Don't waste your time and resources like we have.

Vorteile

The documentation is easy to follow – most of our team had not issue grasping the concepts, interface and provided tooling.

The tutorials continue to be helpful for us, when new developers join our team.

Where the documentation is unclear, the costumer service is able to clarify.

Nachteile

Assets cannot be scheduled for release, like content entries are. This is inconveniencing.

I often find myself feeling disappointed with the features on content delivery APIs (REST & GraphQL).
Most recent example is that most of the available filters can only perform operations where "filter = X OR Y".
I would, at least expect that we're able to query the api based on "filter = X AND Y"

While sparring with my clients or peers I always push for solutions that do not involve "custom fields", "sidebar apps", etc.
To me, it feels too much effort for too little in return because the "ecosystem" is closed.
In these moments I often find myself wishing for a dedicated API just for the web interface, instead of what is provided now.

Vorteile

Setup is simple, intuitive, and, while not the most visually appealing platform, it is lightweight and makes organizing and delegating tasks much easier

Nachteile

Could use with a revamp of the documentation, which at times don't really approach all the scenarios a user might face when getting started

Vorteile

Storyblok has some great characteristics. In the past, website updates had to completed by a developer, regardless of whether it was adding a landing page, changing copy or making layout changes. Storyblok made it possible for us to have these capabilities as marketers without needing excessive access to the code.

Nachteile

Though Storyblok is easy to use, it's not without issue. There are some issues within the product itself, such as the content space reloading every single login.Other issues are more frustrating, but I also don't know if it's related to how our developers set it up. 1. Because all blocks are created by developers, it means we're restricted severely by what was loaded. In our case, it meant that things like an HTML block (to add widgets) or even removing excessive white space was impossible to do. When developers are over-resourced, there's no one available to make those changes since content side won't get access to the code. 2. The structure to setup the webpages are sometimes backwards. For example, you enable noindex when other software trains us to DISASBLE indexing rather an ENABLING it. Clicking on an element on the page opens up the parent block rather than the child block that was being clicked. It's also not possible to make global changes easily, meaning again more developer resources.

Vorteile

One of the standout features of Storyblok is its intuitive visual editor, which allows non-technical users to create and edit content easily. The drag-and-drop functionality, along with a live preview of changes, makes the content creation process efficient and streamlined. Additionally, the ability to define custom content structures and components enables content creators to maintain consistency and structure throughout their website or application.

Nachteile

Here I'm not feeling any missing. Features make it an excellent choice for organizations

Vorteile

The platform offers a user-friendly content editor that simplifies the process of creating and editing content blocks. I found the learning curve to be relatively low, enabling me to get started with minimal effort. The layout is clean and well-organized, allowing users to quickly find the necessary features and tools.

Nachteile

The pricing structure could be more transparent

Vorteile

In my professional experience this tool has excelled in content management issues for different media, it is the type of system that can be used for marketing functions, but in general the tool is quite versatile allowing new website creators a rewarding experience and also easy deployment regardless of the organization in which you work

Nachteile

I have not found it unsuccessful or even complicated, it is a tool that was designed for professionals in sales and marketing.

Vorteile

Storyblok is a very easy to use CMS. It has many flexible features to manage contents. There are lot's of resources on how to use CMS so that people having very minimum IT knowledge, can also use Storyblok easily. The've a great support system as well.

Nachteile

I think are are not many negative words to tell about Storyblok. I suggest they can make this CMS a little bit more fast.

Vorteile

Ease of use, flexibility, just the right balance of developer convention with UI admin configuration.

Nachteile

A “disable block” button as a native feature. Right now one must delete a block to make it disappear it would be useful to disable with a clear disabled UI style.

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Vorteile

Storyblok makes it super easy to visualize your website or content without having to worry about the code or end result. It supports various front-end frameworks and provides a huge choice of templates to start your work. For a startup where one has to manage the designing and coding part all by themselves, this can be a saving grace. You can just drag and drop your content to see how it will look on the final website. Storyblok lets us create content for a global audience. There are multiple integrations possible in their platform, so developers can easily pull data using JSON APIs. The components and blocks format is pretty easy to catch up on so anybody can easily get set and start their work.

Nachteile

The pricing can be a bit weird as some basic features might require you to upgrade your plan. The UI is also not very intuitive, especially the visual editor, where sometimes there have been visible lagging. Also, the file managing and categorization of assets could be made more user-friendly.

Vorteile

You can customize every component according to your needs

Nachteile

I don't have acccess to Administration level