Umbraco 101

diff.NET - July 2015

Lee Kelleher / @leekelleher

An introduction to
Umbraco for .NET developers

Who am I?

What is Umbraco?

"The Friendly CMS"

~300,000 active installs

Average 1,000 installs/day

Who uses Umbraco?

Carlsberg Group

Microsoft (ASP.NET, Azure websites)

Tesco, Red Bull, Jaguar, Condé Nast (Wired, Vogue), NFL, ITN, Costa, Heniz, Peugeot, Fox, Warner Brothers, SanDisk, ABBA, Take That...

Why do I use Umbraco?

Simple & Intuitive

Flexible

Extensible

Focus on content creation & publishing

You don't *need* to know .NET

but if you do, it's super powerful!

You mentioned .NET?

MVC 5 / Web API 2

SQL Server / SQL CE

C# / Razor

Lucene.NET / Examine

How to install Umbraco

Manual ZIP download

Web Platform Installer

or NuGet...

Install from NuGet

PM> Install-Package UmbracoCms

Let's take a look around

Anatomy of an Umbraco Page

bitly.com/umb-doc-anatomy

bitly.com/umb-doc-anatomy-2

Show me the .NET!

Want to know more?

Where to download?

umbraco.com