Introduction to Umbraco - Boulder Web Design Meetup

A quick introduction to Umbraco for Boulder Web Design's CMS Roundup: What's Hot, What's Not event.

http://www.meetup.com/BoulderWebDesign/events/105447232/

Transcript

1. UMBRACO THE FRIENDLY CMS
2. WHAT'S UMBRACO? .NET-based Content Management System Completely free Paid options for support and developer tools Open source Download from http://github.com/umbraco/ http://our.umbraco.org/download
3. WHO USES IT? Over 150,000 active installations
4. HEINZ
5. MICROSOFT
6. WIRED.CO.UK
7. THE PROBLEM One size doesn't fit all... Assumptions / Bloat Unintuitive interface Custom content is difficult / feels detached Custom functionality? Use a plugin... ...and hack it to do what you want
8. ENTER UMBRACO Instead of trying to fit your website into a CMS Why not build a CMS around your website? With the features your website needs In a format that makes sense for your content A framework to build the CMS you want
9. UMBRACO'S APPROACH
10. YOU START COMPLETELY BLANK Can't create any pages Umbraco doesn't know what a "page" is (yet) No markup or templates No interface for editing content WTF?
11. YOU DESIGN YOUR CONTENT Create Document Types to store your content News Article Headline Release Date Author Category Content Product SKU Image Description Discontinued? White Papers General Page Headline Content HTML Title Meta Description Meta Keywords Show in navigation? Banner Image
16. BUILD TEMPLATES TO RENDER YOUR CONTENT Templates render a Document Type as HTML *Bring your own markup Use fields from your Document Type <header class="intro"> <h2>@Umbraco.Field("headline")</h2> <ul class="article-details"> <li>@Umbraco.Field("category")</li> <li>@Umbraco.Field("releaseDate", formatAsDate: true)</li> <li>by @Umbraco.Field("Author")</li> </ul> </header>
18. KEY BENEFITS Simple UI No design limitations or forced markup Highly extensible Fast - XML Cache
19. MORE FEATURES Customizable Richtext editor Drafts Content versioning Scheduled publishing Basic workflow / approval Notifications Load balancing Multi-lingual support Extensive API
20. CONS You develop everything (?) No "themes" Documentation Learning curve
21. ROADMAP Current version: 6.1.6 6.2.0 upcoming Next version: 7.0 (Belle) New backoffice UI powered by AngularJS / Boostrap Fast - all client side Streamlined Due for October release
22. LINKS UMBRACO umbraco.org our.umbraco.org github.com/umbraco ME twitter.com/tomnfulton imulus.com