introduction to umbraco

Umbraco

Sebastiaan JanssenRoel Snetselaar

07.23.2009

“The friendly CMS”

Agenda

Introduction Facts Sales overview Technical overview Future Alternatives

Introduction

Open source ASP.NET, C# MIT license http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License

Web Platform Installer Wish: simple, beautiful, intuitive (quote Niels Hartvig)

Introduction - Umbraco corporation

Founded by Niels Hartvig (DK) Also in the company

Per Ploug Hansen (DK) Tim Geyssens (BE)

Ownership Umbraco project intellectual property

Community commitment

Introduction - Umbraco corporation

Umbraco training Umbraco certification Umbraco.tv Umbraco Pro subscriptions Umbraco solution providers Production and funding Codegarden

Introduction - Umbraco community

Core development team (currently 9 people) MVP’s (currently 6 people) Our Umbraco http://our.umbraco.org

Forum Wiki Project / package repository People

Codeplex

Facts

Started in 2000 Version 1.0 released in 2003 Open source since 2004 Currently in top 10 open source .NET CMS

world wide Number 1 download WPI http://www.microsoft.com/web/gallery/

2005 - 4000 installations 2006 - 15000 installations 2009 - 70000 installations (based on ping-back)

Sales overview

Determine target No license cost

More budget for development, usability, testing, design, integration, thus higher quality

No vendor lock-in Low total cost of ownership Community support Community extensions Small sites & large sites

Sales overview - End-users

Browser based (works in IE, FF, Safari, Chrome)

Intuitive and easy to use Word / live writer integration Simple workflow management Different roles/user types Content versioning, scheduling, notifications Translation interface includes XML export /

import for translation agencies

Sales overview - Sites on Umbraco

Peugeot.com Heinz.com Wired.co.uk Hasselblad.com Cokecce.co.uk Vriendenvanamstel.nl Johma.nl Sandisk.com

Sales overview - Companies

Mirabeau Axendo LBi group Belgium Reed business Arlanet Tribal Internet Marketing Clockwork Guilty People

(NL & BE companies)

Technical overview - Basics

Developer Focused Embracing XSLT Master pages

Fully Extensible .NET User/Custom Controls Events API Webservices

Technical overview - Developers

API allows for easy extension While maintaining ability to upgrade to new

versions Excellent existing CMS functionality

Allows developers to focus completely on writing real code

Developers spend very little time on setting up the framework and more time on doing what they love: writing software

Technical overview – Frontend

Complete control over HTML output Develop master pages, CSS, Javascript & XSLT

from within Visual Studio SEO Friendly

Adjust document types to add missing fields Easy XSLT examples available to get a flying

start (navigation, breadcrumbs, news lists, sitemap, etc.)

Technical overview – Develop / deploy

Development environment IIS & SQL 2005 or 2008 VS2008 & .NET 2.0 or 3.5 / TFS

Deployment Copy files Export and import document types Content migration, manually or via Courier

Future

Umbraco 4.1 will be native .NET 3.5 (late 2009) Image cropper built in Spellchecker Content tree reworked, completely in jQuery

Umbraco 5 will be a rewrite using ASP.NET MVC (late 2010) Full development support by Microsoft

Umbraco 4.1 will be stable and supported post release of Umbraco 5

Alternatives

SiteCore Good product but expensive Lots of functionality, might be overkill

N2 & MojoPortal Backoffice does not look good, not user friendly Have to write code for almost anything you want

to do DotNetNuke

Out dated & frontend work is very complicated, takes up a lot of developer time

Questions?

Getting in touch

Sebastiaan Janssenwww.cultiv.nl/blog

www.twitter.com/sebastiaan

sebastiaan@cultiv.nl

Roel Snetselaarwww.umbmagazine.com

www.twitter.com/roelsn

roel@definecreate.com

Note: This presentation is made by two Umbraco enthousiastics, we are not affiliated with the Umbraco corporation.