Trying to learn Umbraco I desperately need information be to give a quick overview of the whole area:
- what is CMS?
- what is the realtion between C# and the umbraco cms?
- in which folder will the umbraco installion be located?
- if you start a simple website inside umbraco in which folder will this website be located?
- if you install one of the starter kit packages - in which folder will it be located?
- how do you uninstall umbraco if needed?
and more
What I need is an eagles view over the "umbraco landscape". Please give me a link/information:
Thank you!
1: What do you mean by "What is CMS"? :) - Once Umbraco is installed and you go to http://yoururl.domain/umbraco - This is the backoffice, which is the CMS part of Umbraco where you can create the building blocks that your editors will use to make up the website. They too will work with this backoffice. But a clean installation of Umbraco (Not based on a starter kit or theme) is completely empty - It's a framework, which you will need to build functionality upon. This means that initially the first site will take a little longer to build than the following sites since you will be able to reuse concepts and functionality from project to project with minor modifications from project to project.
2: Umbraco is build on top of the .NET platform and there it's been build using C#, which is also the language that you will use if you extend, or customize the Umbraco installation or make integration or simply render your content - That can be done using Razor for instance, which is a subset of C# and you can use pure MVC as well.
3: The website will not be located anywhere on disk - It's saved in a database. But the files you're working in like templates/views, javascript, css etc. will be saved on the disk in the root folder of your Umbraco installation. Where you choose to save the Umbraco installation is entirely up to you.
4: Uninstalling Umbraco will be a matter of deleting the Umbraco folder from the disk and dumping the database and removing the IIS site - But it's not something that is common to do unless you're migrating to another platform for some reason.
I'll recommend that you take some time to skim/read through some of these links, which can hopefully make it easier for you to get more into what Umbraco is and what you can do.
Umbraco Overview
Hi,
Trying to learn Umbraco I desperately need information be to give a quick overview of the whole area: - what is CMS? - what is the realtion between C# and the umbraco cms? - in which folder will the umbraco installion be located? - if you start a simple website inside umbraco in which folder will this website be located? - if you install one of the starter kit packages - in which folder will it be located? - how do you uninstall umbraco if needed?
and more What I need is an eagles view over the "umbraco landscape". Please give me a link/information: Thank you!
BR Lars
Hi Lars
I'll try to cover you questions
1: What do you mean by "What is CMS"? :) - Once Umbraco is installed and you go to http://yoururl.domain/umbraco - This is the backoffice, which is the CMS part of Umbraco where you can create the building blocks that your editors will use to make up the website. They too will work with this backoffice. But a clean installation of Umbraco (Not based on a starter kit or theme) is completely empty - It's a framework, which you will need to build functionality upon. This means that initially the first site will take a little longer to build than the following sites since you will be able to reuse concepts and functionality from project to project with minor modifications from project to project.
2: Umbraco is build on top of the .NET platform and there it's been build using C#, which is also the language that you will use if you extend, or customize the Umbraco installation or make integration or simply render your content - That can be done using Razor for instance, which is a subset of C# and you can use pure MVC as well.
3: The website will not be located anywhere on disk - It's saved in a database. But the files you're working in like templates/views, javascript, css etc. will be saved on the disk in the root folder of your Umbraco installation. Where you choose to save the Umbraco installation is entirely up to you.
4: Uninstalling Umbraco will be a matter of deleting the Umbraco folder from the disk and dumping the database and removing the IIS site - But it's not something that is common to do unless you're migrating to another platform for some reason.
I'll recommend that you take some time to skim/read through some of these links, which can hopefully make it easier for you to get more into what Umbraco is and what you can do.
Basic starter guide: https://our.umbraco.org/documentation/Using-Umbraco/Creating-Basic-Site/ Also an article about basic startup here http://24days.in/umbraco/2014/how-to-set-up-an-umbraco-site/ Installation documentation: https://our.umbraco.org/documentation/Installation/ Umbraco and MVC https://our.umbraco.org/documentation/Reference/Templating/Mvc/ Information about asp.net in general http://www.asp.net/ Umbraco TV, which you may already know about http://umbraco.tv/ It might be a good idea to consider to attend level 1 and 2 training to get all the way around Umbraco http://umbraco.com/products/training
Apart from that there is a lot of documentation on the https://our.umbraco.org/documentation page and http://24days.in/umbraco/2014 is a good ressource of tips and tricks as well.
I hope this helps a bit.
/Jan
Hi Lars
Just stumpled upon this post this morning as well http://letswritecode.net/articles/why-choose-umbraco-for-your-next-web-project/
/Jan
Thank you Jan, your links and info is much appreciated!
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