Collegica review for Shogun ‑ Landing Page Builder

Feb. 21, 2018

This is the most useful app in our store. It allows you to dramatically expand on the design versatility of whatever theme you happen to be using. Even the paid themes tend to be a little frustrating when it comes to tweaking your site exactly how you want, especially when you start working on pages other than the home page. Shogun gives you complete mastery over every page on your site. You want a landing page with no header? No problem. You want a four-column area, with all different-sized columns? No problem. You want to adjust the padding on the left, but not on the right? Done. And that barely scratches the surface. I love the design freedom it gives us. Here are a couple more things I like about this app: - You can build landing pages that stay on your site. You don't have to pay for hosted landing pages, and you're not in danger of losing all your work if you want to stop using the app, which seems to be the case for most landing page services. - It's not expensive. I get that all developers want to go with the subscription model these days; that makes sense, especially if they are actively supporting the app. But some of the prices out there are outrageous. Shogun is very reasonable. - This app is extremely well put together, and the support is extensive. The how-to videos are linked to from directly within the app. So far, after a few months of use, I haven't run into anything I couldn't figure out with the help of the videos, and I have been able to build a lot of things I would never have been able to do with my theme (without a lot of custom CSS). - The devs seem to be committed to expanding the capability of the app all the time. I love that it is being actively developed, and that a constant increase in functionality seems to be their goal. Problems? There aren't any problems, per se. Every now and again I have to refresh the page because it stops responding. I make sure to click "save" before I do this, and nothing is lost. Also, I would like to see a more robust form tool, especially one with multi-page form capability. Then again, the fact that this tool even has a form tool is pretty great. All in all, as you can probably tell, I'm a pretty big fan of this app. Well done, guys.