Anyone heard of Umbraco CMS?

nippynoo · 2 Oct 2011 at 17:39

3dcandy · 3 Oct 2011 at 20:27

heard of it, not really used it as it's asp.net based. As I use Linux servers that's not going to happen easily! The site itself looks a bit messy, but is quick to load, so promise there...

sharkkk · 4 Oct 2011 at 14:39

If you like ASP.NET, it's possibly the best

Izi · 4 Oct 2011 at 16:06

I don't like it because its all based on XSLT (At least last time I checked).

GravyMonster · 4 Oct 2011 at 16:18

It still is.

Last I heard, template creation was a PITA. I would much prefer something based on MVC.

Tackle_Berry · 4 Oct 2011 at 20:49

Hi I have used it, the company I work for had a website made and the developers used this so we could make changes, at the time myself and other colleagues didn't know much about making edits but this made it very easy for us.

nippynoo · 5 Oct 2011 at 12:52

Thanks guys, summary so far

Its a CMS for ASP.NET development.
2 for
2 against
1 undecided

A couple of friends of mine have switched from drupal, joomla. Thats why I'm wondering is it worth learning, given that I also use ASP.NET, or are there any catches? It seems to be backed by microsoft http://www.microsoft.com/web/umbraco

sharkkk · 5 Oct 2011 at 12:58

It's not gonna give you any awesome reason to switch languages for the sake of it, cut as you're already friendly with the language I'd say it's entirely your preference; it's a solid cms but it's nothing groundbreaking is all

3dcandy · 5 Oct 2011 at 13:17

using asp.net should help you then. Only you can really decide, and as said, it's hardly groundbreaking but seems solid enough

nippynoo · 5 Oct 2011 at 14:08

3dcandy said:
it's hardly groundbreaking

sharkkk said:
nothing groundbreaking

is there anything else you'd say was more groundbreaking for ASP.NET?

3dcandy · 5 Oct 2011 at 14:18

could be regarded as a plus or a minus. I think I'd prefer solid over groundbreaking and flaky. That's your pick. I'm not really in a position to comment 100% as I'm php based...

RockLobster · 5 Oct 2011 at 14:19

We've used for years, it's fantastic.

DanF · 5 Oct 2011 at 23:30

It really depends on what your looking for in a CMS system, if it's out the box working with minimal coding then it should be fine.

If your looking for a more programmer orientated cms that fits in with the MVC pattern then check out n2cms, we're just about to release a large site using it to drive some of the content. You make your templates in code as decorated classes, no nasty xslt/xml

but you need to know what your doing.

Izi · 6 Oct 2011 at 15:36

Have a look at N2 CMS - pretty cool.

Also, there is http://orchardproject.net/ - MVC based CMS.

grudas · 6 Oct 2011 at 17:27

cotonti is my favourite tbh..

http://www.cotonti.com/

ProNotion · 7 Oct 2011 at 12:47

Spunkey said:
It still is.

Last I heard, template creation was a PITA. I would much prefer something based on MVC.

The next version (v5) is being rewritten from the ground up but is MVC based. You can find out more at http://umbraco.com/umbraco-5-status/what-is-v5.aspx

ProNotion · 7 Oct 2011 at 12:50

Izi said:
I don't like it because its all based on XSLT (At least last time I checked).

Umbraco is written in .Net and XSLT is just one method you can use in your templates for outputting and formatting content. You can use custom usercontrols, XSLT or Razor which is an MVC View Engine.

mp3duck · 9 Oct 2011 at 10:14

I've used Umbraco on several CMS projects.
The latest release (4.7 iirc) has a Razor engine of sorts, which makes creating templating a lot easier.

The best .NET CMS imo is EPiServer. However, this is not an option for a lot of companies, as it costs around £10k for a license.

rexehuk · 9 Oct 2011 at 10:44

There is a CMS I've had experience with that is fairly new... based on ASP so you may enjoy it?

http://sueetie.com/

It's more of a whole package, worth a try to see if you like it... templating isn't too bad.