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Umbraco is a super-friendly, ultra-configurable and uber-powerful .Net-based CMS, and you need it in your life! It is so powerful that you can literally do whatever you want with your site, but it’s so easy to use that even your non-technical clients will be able to pick it up with minimal training. In this written series, I’ll teach you exactly how to build a website theme from scratch with Umbraco.
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Where’s the fun in having it all done for you, right?!
Umbraco can be installed very quickly and easily. Even better, it comes with many features straight out of the box. For example, it’s possible to build an entire site without delving into the code yourself, simply by using pre-built templates and the back-end CMS. But for us developers who like to get our hands dirty, websites can also be coded completely from scratch. In this series, we’ll be creating an entire site ourselves from scratch, because where’s the fun in having it all done for you, right?!
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can we buy it from tut+ market place. it would be good if you provide what topics are covered in video tutorial
It’ll be available on the Tuts+ marketplace in the next week or so, as soon as we’ve posted each entry in the series.
Jeffrey Way says In a world full of so many CMS, which is the best solution for developing projects? Or CMS will be like the struggle of broweses past.
I only recently became acquainted with Umbraco and it totally rocked my world. Honestly, I think it’s the best CMS I’ve ever used both in terms of how simple it is for an end user and how powerful it is for developers.
If you need a .NET CMS (or a CMS in general, really) then you’d be a fool not to seriously consider Umbraco.
Dan Wellman, your last tutorial I went through was the Ajax Templating one, and it did not disappoint. I will be sure to go through this one as well.
Many thanks :D
Hope this one helps too!
Looks very promising. I have a small community project coming up and I think it will be an excellent opportunity for giving SocialFront a test drive. Keep it up and share more and more resources like this. Thanks for sharing this type of information to user.
I downloaded it but was not able to use it as there was not much help 2 years back, but a .net cms will always be better then other cms around.
Moksha, nice flamebait. So you really think a .net cms is better just because it’s coded in .net?
The community has grown exponentially in the last year or so. It’s not called ‘the friendly CMS’ for nothing :)
Oh where were you 8 months ago?
I’ve been an Umbraco developer (among other things) stuck in a PHP developers body for the last 8 months, and it’s not been the easiest of journeys!
I still find myself prefering WordPress for a lot of the CMS development I do (although a large part of that will no doubt be familiarity with the platform and the language), but will be following this series closely, as there is still plenty for me to learn!!
Apologies if this is covered in the first part of the series (I need to renew my subscription), but what sort of stuff exactly will you be covering (other than just building “a website from scratch”)? Or more specifically, what sort of stuff will you be covering that’s not in the Umbraco.tv library (http://umbraco.com/help-and-support/video-tutorials)?
@Damian I’ve not watched the umbraco.tv library so I can’t say specifically how this series compares. In terms of what is covered over the series, here is a guide:
Part 1 – Installing umbraco and required dependancies, creating document types (no coding)
Part 2 – Creating templates, creating content nodes, creating media items (HTML, asp.net)
Part 3 – Creating macros (XSLT)
Part 4 – Umbraco library methods, adding a user control macro, styling (XSLT, c#, CSS)
Part 5 – Adding a jQuery carousel (JavaScript/jQuery)
Part 5 is kind of an add-on, to finish off the series with something fun :)
We use Umbraco as our CMS for our agency’s website, and we love it. The extensibility of the XSLT Macros makes for some very powerful stuff, and Umbraco organizes things really well. We love it.
This is the first time I’ve heard of this. I’ll check it out.
Thanks
Umbraco = Urban Cool CMS
I am really impressed with Umbraco, and would recommend every developer to try it once.
Thanks Dan. I can’t wait to check this tuts out.
I’m so excited for this series. I’ve been watching Umbraco for about two years now. If I ever go back to .NET, Umbraco will be the reason.
This is the first I have heard of Umbarco as well, and I think I can work with it, but I think the series would have been even better, if it was in video format.
its really nice to see that more and more stuff related to .net is coming. many thanks.
I am really excited to watch these when they are all done. Kudos to nettuts!
~Just what i need sir i bow down to you. i have clients that need a simple solution
Do you guys know http://www.asp.net/ itself is built with Umbraco. :)
Hy Dan.
I like the idea of umbraco releated to net.tutsplus. I#m also umbraco developer and created a lot of scripts with new razor for upcoming umbraco v5 jupiter. (MVC 3) i would like to extend your series with tutorials. you can write me a mail and we can share some solutions for ongoing tutorials.
Would nice to here from you my mail is admin@3dmile.de or you can find under the my name on Facebook.
A i’m german guy :) but i love umbraco and it’s smooth way of developing.
An example could be implementing a complete xhtml theme within 1 hour. done that yesterday for a quick startup company.
Greetings
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I want to register for Plus Membership but I dont have paypal or moneybookers, can I pay with Credit Card