I've read alot of good things abot Umbraco. But before I make the leap can someone please let me know if Umbraco can do all of the following?
Here are the key points that I need.
1 Track User activity on the site - (where an admin or users in a certain role can see it) b. Custom authentication, Custom URL for user. c. Form builder d. Independent of design, Reusable on multiple sites. e. Able to upgrade core code
f. lightweight.
g. easily installed.
h. asp.net, c sharp would be nice, but vb.net is fine too.
3. Look at 3 systems and tell me the pros/cons and my recommendation for this project. a. Mojo portal b. N2 CMS c. Umbraco - most popular
1: The Audit Trail feature lets you see what users (editors) have done with a page b: Uses regular ASP.NET membership, so you can build own provider. Custom url can be done with UrlRewriting c: Contour is a commercial product that lets users build forms. d: Complete separation, so your are free to design how you like e: Umbraco is open source, so you can change things if you need it. Chances are that you won't. f: Install is around 4-5 Mb as far as I recall g: Installation wizard, and lots of guides. Also on the Web Platform Installer from Microsoft h: Is written in C#
That's the short list. I don't know the other two systems, so I cannot make a comparison between them.
No when you want to let your editors build a form You'll have to buy contour. If you want a simple Form Generator that generates a form based on a document structure you can use Doc2Form but you need to be a develope to configure this form (it's free though).
You don't "have" to use Contour, but it will save you a lot of dev time and so I would also recommend it :)
Another alternative is to produce your own .NET user control with a form and use that, but by the time you have built one or two forms in that way, you will realise that for the cost of the Contour license, you could have saved yourself time and your client money by just buying the add-on.
You can then spend your time coding interesting functionality instead of forms ;-)
there's commerce4umbraco (free open source, not that actively developed atm) and ucommerce.dk (free dev license), also some others which are still "in progress" phase (search twitter for the #umbraco hashtag may get some extra pointers as well)
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I've read alot of good things abot Umbraco. But before I make the leap can someone please let me know if Umbraco can do all of the following?
Here are the key points that I need.
1 Track User activity on the site - (where an admin or users in a certain role can see it)
b. Custom authentication, Custom URL for user.
c. Form builder
d. Independent of design, Reusable on multiple sites.
e. Able to upgrade core code
f. lightweight.
g. easily installed.
h. asp.net, c sharp would be nice, but vb.net is fine too.
3. Look at 3 systems and tell me the pros/cons and my recommendation for this project.
a. Mojo portal
b. N2 CMS
c. Umbraco - most popular
thx for anyone's help and input.
Hi Rob
To check your list:
1: The Audit Trail feature lets you see what users (editors) have done with a page
b: Uses regular ASP.NET membership, so you can build own provider. Custom url can be done with UrlRewriting
c: Contour is a commercial product that lets users build forms.
d: Complete separation, so your are free to design how you like
e: Umbraco is open source, so you can change things if you need it. Chances are that you won't.
f: Install is around 4-5 Mb as far as I recall
g: Installation wizard, and lots of guides. Also on the Web Platform Installer from Microsoft
h: Is written in C#
That's the short list. I don't know the other two systems, so I cannot make a comparison between them.
Btw, also note that there is a difference between Members and Users in Umbraco.
Members are frontend visitors, that use you website.
Users are content editors that have access to the backend.
thx for the replies.
I thought that I read that form building was a free part of Umbraco? is it?
Hi Rob,
No when you want to let your editors build a form You'll have to buy contour. If you want a simple Form Generator that generates a form based on a document structure you can use Doc2Form but you need to be a develope to configure this form (it's free though).
Cheers,
Richard
Hi Rob,
You don't "have" to use Contour, but it will save you a lot of dev time and so I would also recommend it :)
Another alternative is to produce your own .NET user control with a form and use that, but by the time you have built one or two forms in that way, you will realise that for the cost of the Contour license, you could have saved yourself time and your client money by just buying the add-on.
You can then spend your time coding interesting functionality instead of forms ;-)
Cheers,
Chris
What do most umbraco developers use for an ecommerce solution, that is easy to use?
Hi Rob,
there's commerce4umbraco (free open source, not that actively developed atm) and ucommerce.dk (free dev license), also some others which are still "in progress" phase (search twitter for the #umbraco hashtag may get some extra pointers as well)
Cheers,
/Dirk
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