@andi242 @typingmonkey thank’s a lot for sharing your sites and the kind feedback! Just a quick note. If it works for you guys I think it would be more helpful for other users to write in English. More than 70% of all Kirby users are coming from Non-German speaking countries and I’m sure they’d love to read your posts as well 
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Hey Bastian,
I love working with Kirby. Because of that, my site will probably never be finished, because there is always something to try out 
You can take a look at it here:
This is an awesome thread.
Even though it isn’t most profound use of Kirby, I just rebuilt my personal site.
Go ahead and scribble on it!
I also recently did the development for http://livehigby.com/, which is a slightly more interesting implementation— a floorplan viewer draws dynamic, interactive SVGs from coordinate data entered in the panel.
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Hej there 
I relaunched my personal website http://hennirocks.de a few days ago and made a repo for this one as well over at GitHub: https://github.com/NECKRHINOS/kirby-theme-oie-12
This is the 12th version of my website because… I have fun coding with Kirby 
If there are any issues (especially with the usage of stuff mentioned in the humans.txt) please tell me 
There is also a little ‘about’ news post at my website about this, in german language. Due to being new to the new forum, I can’t provide a direct link just yet 
Just browse my site, which is always welcome.
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Hi everyone. I’d like to share both my newly launched portfolio powered with Kirby, as well as a post I wrote about the process.
My Portfolio
I Built A Website In A Day With Kirby
Any feedback on both fronts would be appreciated! Thanks!
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Chris, that’s some gorgeous work! Love it
Got admit: Gonna read through your article later though
Chris, fantastic article! I’ll send the link to people around me who want to learn about Kirby.
It really echoes my own experience, as a newcomer I found the template and blueprint concept easy to grok and fun to use.
+1
Although in my experience, Kirby 1 was way better documented than version 2. At least for now. Sometimes during the early release phase last fall / winter it kinda felt like a Beta still. Do I love Kirby though? Hell yes! I’ve made like over a dozen websites with it now and the workflow and especially the usability and flexibility is outstanding.
The cleanliness and simplicity is far better than other CMS I worked with. And one of that has been TYPO3 
What I especially like and what feels so right with Kirby is that you build from bottom to top and finally have a product that is made just for customer X. It’s not like building the other way round, i. e. from top to bottom: WordPress and TYPO3 come with tons of useless stuff that the customer just doesn’t need or want to think about. So you have to build it down, step by step. And in the end, you have tons of useless and buggy plugins, extensions, security loop holes, data garbage that doesn’t feel cool at all. Kirby feels like craftmanship and like real a product in the end.
WordPress and TYPO3 do have their right to exist… WordPress more than TYPO3 in my humble opinion I keep hearing that TYPO3 is best for large enterprises but when I look at how customers edit their websites in the end, I think you can do every large site with a simple and small CMS as well. It just needs a lot of preparation in the first place.
I made a website with Kirby showing our dogs and puppys. We breed Boston Terriers as hobby. There are lot of fotos to manage and to present and to describe. With Kirby and the panel it makes it simple to do this with tablet and handy too. The URL is:
http://www.vom-staufenberg.de
This is my second boston-terrier hobby breeding homepage projekt with kirby.
Thank you for this nice CMS!!
Thanks guys, I appreciate it!
As for the comment on Wordpress and TYPO3.
Wordpress has a place in this world as the most widely known CMS on the market. The support is nearly universal, meaning there is a plugin or theme for about every solution, and that is why wordpress has it’s place. TYPO3, however, is the same as drupal; it’s a giant, bloated mess. The only practical applications are user heavy, permission heavy installations. For nearly every other website, the future is solutions like Kirby.
Another CMS like Kirby is Statamic, which is attempting to be the bigger, more company-level CMS. It hasn’t done quite as CLEAN a job as Kirby of a file-driven CMS, so I believe Kirby or another CMS will grow into the market to push Statamic out of the way, but basically with some good resource management, a smart developer, and page caching, the days of complicated database-driven CMS will hopefully disappear for smaller websites.
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I had narrowed it down to Statamic and Kirby.
At Statamic they have better marketing, but the other side of the coin is they’re trying harder to sell you things. I didn’t like Statamic’s pricing scheme: the entry price is basically 197€ and not 99 as it first seems, because you almost always need their two commercial plugins (search and form builder). Add lots of commercial third-party add-ons to that (pretty much like the Expression Engine ecosystem). Unless you crank out a Statamic site every month their monthly subscription is not interesting.
I’m primarily a designer, so I can see how a template language could make things simpler, but Kirby just seemed a lot more flexible without it, and the complexity seemed manageable. And I like the no bullshit approach. Oh and being able to try before I buy sealed the deal for me.
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My most recent Kirby project wrapped up for a community neighborhood website. They wanted a better CMS experience than their previous WordPress attempts and Kirby was the perfect fit! Thanks for looking!
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My development partner and I just re-launched:
TinkerTry (Efficient virtualization, storage, backup, and more)
- It was on WordPress on Dediserve on Apache.
- On Mar 22 2015, we cut-over to HTTPS https://tinkertry.com on Kirby v2, Debian/nginx (with SPDY enabled), hosted on Cloudways/Digital Ocean.
Learned a lot, and so far, so good, so very good!
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We have updated our Kaunos Kirby Theme 1.2.0
http://aristotheme.com/kaunos-kirby-portfolio-theme.html
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My first Kirby based site just launched: https://www.glyphsapp.com/
It was A LOT of fun and the client is super happy! He loves and uses both: flat files and panel.
Thanks @bastianallgeier and everyone who helps to create and support this awesome CMS. I guess you can call me a fanboy now.
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Wow. I browsed the old sites a few days ago, the new one is massively nicer! Great job.
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