Kirby - Our New Favourite CMS

2024 | 6 min reading time

Why Kirby is the ideal content management system for a wide range of website projects

When it comes to website creation, not all customers are the same, as they all have individual requirements and wishes in terms of visual and technical realisation. Addressing the target groups can differ greatly in terms of tonality and visual language depending on the brand identification. It is no different with content management systems.

Content management systems (CMS) allow our customers to manage the content of websites themselves. Images, texts and pages can be created and changed. This gives the customer a tool to create and communicate content to the outside world in a self-determined way.

When we talk about CMS, many people immediately think of large systems such as Wordpress or long-established systems such as Typo3 or Joomla, which have established a strong community through trends over the last few years. Many of these solutions have proven their raison d'être - and at the same time the systems are often used in a generalised and misappropriated way instead of looking for the best CMS for a specific case.

Simple configuration of the website navigation in the backend for the Miriam Makeba primary school website

Our website project for miriam-makeba-schule.de: Topic overview page and flexible menu structure in the backend

miriam-makeba-schule.de: Menu structure in the frontend

Kirby: A radically simple CMS for every occasion

Our all-purpose solution quietly and secretly crept onto the market 10 years ago: Kirby CMS comes from Germany and uses a radically simple principle to avoid one of the major construction sites right from the start: the use and thus the conception and implementation of a database. The logic of the database, i.e. the storage of information such as texts and images, is sorted into folder logics, as many people know from their own practical experience in dealing with folder structures. This makes it easy for non-developers to get started with the system. For more complex applications, it is of course also possible to integrate a database.

ontent management in the backend of the Komplizen Film website

Our website project for komplizen-film.de: Film overview with display of the respective film background colour and completion status

Lots of freedom in the front end + even more in the back end = maximum freedom for our customers

Depending on the customer's requirements, the user experience can not only be customised on the front-end side with all common front-end tools. The quality lies above all in the customisation of user guidance in the backend. Information and input masks are placed where they are relevant and when they are really needed. Customised components can be flexibly arranged or regulated. Once content has been created, it can be dynamically reused on other pages. This ensures a high level of editable content for customers and all of our customers were able to upload their own website content independently after a brief introduction. Kirby is the perfect all-rounder, especially for medium-sized website projects.

As a design agency, we can use Kirby CMS to develop customised concepts and designs for our customers and rely on the fact that (almost) no compromises have to be made in the technical implementation. Projects can be set up on a small scale and scaled up steadily over a longer period of time. The integration of other frameworks is possible and allows experienced developers to use familiar tools or combine them.

he layout modules in the backend already show a preview of the content

miriam-makeba-schule.de: WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) - preview content in real time as a modular building block system

Kirby CMS is no longer a niche CMS!

Kirby CMS is no longer an insider tip. The community is also growing steadily here, which is why the Kirby team has been offering excellent support for all technical implementation issues for many years. The very detailed documentation, video tutorials and newsletters enable designers to get started with programming and implement ideas independently. The Kirby team is constantly motivated to implement new approaches and involves the community through transparent communication. This means that fundamental decisions remain comprehensible, are applied and functionally expanded.

A simple list of the stored media enables a quick compilation of a page in the backend

Our website project for dasgreenteam.de: Selection of already created components for multiple use

Advantages of Kirby CMS for design agencies and their clients at a glance:

1. Radically simple with a folder structure instead of database

2. Easy to use in the frontend and backend

3. Plenty of design freedom for designers and customers

4. All-round solution for small and medium-sized websites

5. Growing community and great support

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Tags: Kirby CMS, Webdesign, Backend, Website, CMS

Martin Luge

Project Management & Backend Dev | ZENTRALNORDEN

Martin Luge is a trained media designer and graduated designer for visual communication from the Berlin University of the Arts with a focus on digital media. He has worked in research for several years, designed participatory workshops, tested solutions for rural mobility and is an enthusiastic web developer of the Kirby CMS.