Monday, August 9, 2010

UMBRACO

Some very basic info about umbraco:
Slightly expanded...
umbraco is optimized for the presentation of human-readable and human-editable website content. It is a completely customizable system - in other words, YOU CAN DO ANYTHING with umbraco, it's just a matter of how and if you need to use technologies outside of the basic umbraco framework. 
umbraco is written using ASP.Net technology, but to create a website in umbraco you don't need to know anything about programming in ASP.Net, or C#. You can create your entire website in umbraco's web-based interface. (Check out some of the cool How-To articles for screenshots of the umbraco interface.)
Stuff you can do with umbraco's interface (not at all a comprehensive list!):
  • Create document types with whatever properties you want
  • Add/edit content on your site
  • Set your XHTML and CSS templates for different document types
  • Upload and use photos and other images
  • Create a basic membership system, to allow logged in people to view certain sections of your site
  • Create separate user accounts with customizable permissions to access the back-end to write, edit and publish content
  • Have a multi-lingual site
  • Create dynamic navigation and pull your content dynamically (aka showing "latest" items on the homepage)
  • Have your site consume RSS feeds
There are however, cool things you can do with your umbraco site if you know ASP.Net:
  • Integrate with external systems
  • Use web services
  • Create custom ASP.Net user controls and use them in umbraco pages
  • Learn more,Go to www.umbraco.org .