Hi, completely new to Umbraco. Only heard of it's existence yesterday!!
I'm needing to a build a website to market a software product. Now, I have html and css skills to a good level which leads me to a few questions:
If I build a html/css site offline, will I be able to just upload it to the CMS?
Are there any fully functional website modules I can install to maybe make alterations or at least see how this program works with an actual ready made site installed.
Are there templates like Joomla or Drupal? I understand that Umbraco wishes to move away from this but the questions stands, are there any templates?
I have been looking at other .net CMS but there is something about this product that looks more compelling than the others.
I suggest if you're really interested to come at a grasp to look at Umbraco TV (needs a subscription but well worth it). There are some demo videos for free too on Umbraco TV.
Also "Runway" is a small demo site that you can install when you install umbraco.
To answer your question about your templates, pretty much if you can build it in html/css then you can build it in Umbraco, Umbraco will only ever output the markup that you specify.
There are not really any templates/skins for Umbraco as every website is different, however the next release (Juno) will allow for skins.
- you could made a document type with a field that accepts rich text and put your html in there, and have a template pointing to your CSS; but I would strongly advise to first understand the concepts of Umbraco and see why that would not be the way to go ;)
- yes, the 'runway package' is a demo site you can choose to install when installing umbraco and a lot of packages are around (codeplex, our.umbraco.org etc)
- Umbraco doesn't really work with templates (Joomla / Drupal) or skins (Dotnetnuke) - you basically build your layout with CSS and templates (using the ASP.NET master template functions).
Queries and questions
Hi, completely new to Umbraco. Only heard of it's existence yesterday!!
I'm needing to a build a website to market a software product. Now, I have html and css skills to a good level which leads me to a few questions:
I have been looking at other .net CMS but there is something about this product that looks more compelling than the others.
Appreciate any advice/help.
Hi,
I suggest if you're really interested to come at a grasp to look at Umbraco TV (needs a subscription but well worth it). There are some demo videos for free too on Umbraco TV.
Kind regards
/HFS
hey Mos,
Welcome
There are at least 4 demo / start up sites, the most popular being http://our.umbraco.org/projects/starter-kits/creative-website-starter-(cws)
http://our.umbraco.org/projects/starter-kits/basic-website
http://our.umbraco.org/projects/starter-kits/business-website-starter-pack
Also "Runway" is a small demo site that you can install when you install umbraco.
To answer your question about your templates, pretty much if you can build it in html/css then you can build it in Umbraco, Umbraco will only ever output the markup that you specify.
There are not really any templates/skins for Umbraco as every website is different, however the next release (Juno) will allow for skins.
Hope that helps
Rich
to answer some of your questions:
- you could made a document type with a field that accepts rich text and put your html in there, and have a template pointing to your CSS; but I would strongly advise to first understand the concepts of Umbraco and see why that would not be the way to go ;)
- yes, the 'runway package' is a demo site you can choose to install when installing umbraco and a lot of packages are around (codeplex, our.umbraco.org etc)
- Umbraco doesn't really work with templates (Joomla / Drupal) or skins (Dotnetnuke) - you basically build your layout with CSS and templates (using the ASP.NET master template functions).
Thank you for the speedy responses. Very good for promoting the program having a helpful community like this.
Cheers.
Hi again,
To give you an idea of the packages ready to be installed... just search on umbraco in codeplex or go to http://our.umbraco.org/projects.
Kind regards,
HFS
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