I need to help appraise an Umbraco project. Here are some links I find useful.
- Their site, umbraco.com
- What Wikipedia says! What they say includes the statement, “It is written in C# and deployed on Microsoft based infrastructure. Since version 4.5, the whole system has been available under an MIT License.”
- How to Move Umbraco to WordPress. 6 Steps to Success, written by a migration (to wordpress) as a service offering, to evaluate the cost of exit. They have implemented this as a wordpress plugin. They make interesting comments on strengths and weaknesses.
Cloud
- Umbraco offer a cloud service, need to check what the platform is.
- Here is an azure template for Umbracco stored on github
- There seems to be at least one AMI on AWS.
Installing Umbraco
It seems to need Visual Studio. 😋 Obviously not a killer, but it’s illustrative of the skill level needed to administer the system.
Look & Feel/Themes
There’s a lot of flexibility in the look and feel via themes.
- https://www.pinterest.co.uk/uskinned/responsive-umbraco-theme-designs/
- https://themeforest.net/tags/responsive, the equivalent of the wordpress theme library.
These were found for me, the hyperlinks go to preview sites
- machli, beautiful and very visual, maybe to so for a web 1.0 audience
- extra clean, good, nearly reached its end of life date in terms of look and feel
- buildpro, good, maybe too visual
And I found this,
- smart start
All these need a slight re-purposing, our calls to action become blog articles, our longer term initiatives become projects and web features become services.
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