Aptuitiv Developers

Here you can learn how to build custom websites with Aptuitiv for your company or clients.

Aptuitiv overview

Aptuitiv is a website platform for custom websites. It was created by developers for developers. Many of our features came from meeting the demands of website projects we've worked on at our agency or from limitations we've seen in other CMSs.

A key principle is that Aptuitiv is designed to be flexible and heavily customizable. There are no limitations on your design, and you can use your own HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code.

Websites built with Aptuitiv need a developer to make style, structure, or functionality changes. We're intentionally not a point-and-click CMS, website builder, or "design in the browser" platform because those are often limiting, harder to maintain, or easy to break.

Once a website is set up, a developer isn't needed anymore unless you need to make major changes. Content editors can happily edit and maintain the website's content without a developer. We've designed Aptuitiv so that the content and the code are separate.

Our role and yours

We maintain the servers (they run on AWS) and the CMS code. When we push out updates, everyone gets them. We're also here to support you, your team, or clients (if you want) with advice and guidance. (You can contact us via chat on this site or in the admin, or by email.)

You build the website with your HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code. That's it.

(If you need help building a website, please reach out. Some of our agency partners hire us to build their client websites as a behind-the-scenes partner.)

Core concepts

The HTML templates for a website use Twig for any logic or content output. Twig is a PHP-based templating library, and we've heavily customized it for Aptuitiv.

Just about everything has a template that you can create and customize. There are very few things that Aptuitiv will just output.