Concrete CMS Site & Add-ons Info

This site is showcases a few Concrete CMS add-ons, also known as plugins, extensions, or modules, that are pre-built packages of code and content that extend and add new functionality to a Concrete CMS website. These add-ons perform a wide range of tasks, such as improving accessibility, search engine optimisation, and enhancing site interactivity. They are crucial for customising and expanding the Concrete CMS website to meet specific project needs without starting from scratch.

This simple Concrete CMS website uses a custom framework, a custom theme and does not use 'Bootstrap', 'Bedrock' or 'Font Awesome' to slow down loading times.

The aim is to build a website that uses the 'Concrete CMS' and to develop add-ons that are 'Accessible', using 'Best Practises' and are made to be  'Responsive' and fast loading.t

At the time of writing we are using 'Krystal.io' as our preferred Concrete CMS hosting provider with the 'Katapult' high speed cloud in the UK.

The site is running the 'Concrete CMS' Version 9.4.4 with the latest 'jQuery' Version 3.7.1 (with Version 4.0 coming soon). Our Concrete CMS UK hosting company 'Krystal.io' by default provides 'cPanel', 'LiteSpeed' with 'Apache', a free SSL certificate and is running PHP Version 8.4.11.

Accessibility tests done with:

  1. Wave
  2. Experte
  3. Powermapper
  4. Geekflare
  5. Total Validator Pro
  6. Silktide

Site audits tested with:

  1. PageSpeed
  2. GTmetrix
  3. Seobility
  4. WebPageTest
  5. SEO Site Checkup
  6. SEOptimer

Note: This is a work in progress because technology/software is always changing, so updating every few months should keep everything up to date. Also this site is no way perfect, but hopefully it will get better over time