I am a .Net developer working mainly on enterprise level and line of business software. I've been messing with CMS in my own spare time out of interest and been asked for websites by friends and family.
I digged a little into Orchard project and liked most of it. However documentation can be lacking and other .Net cms seem to be more popular. So I wanted to take a look at Umbraco.
Things that I really liked about Orchard was the modular nature and that it was open source. So I could add my own stuff if needed.
Also the way they handled Content like first class citizens. You could define your own types. One site I'm going to work on for example offers riding horses for rent. The idea would be that the site owners and wirters could just pick "add horse" and the would get a custom created form field (that I generated by picking the appropriate fields) for things like Name, color, picture etc.
This content would by added to a collection of these types automatically and shown in lists where appropriate without any extra action. Blog post would be an example of such a Content Type and would thusly be shown in the "Newest blog post" place instead of whatever else was there. This feature and the way you could filter and sort collections of these is very flexible and developer friendly.
Does Umbraco have these features and if so what are they called so I could look up a tutorial video and see how they compare.
From Orchard Project over to Umbraco
I am a .Net developer working mainly on enterprise level and line of business software. I've been messing with CMS in my own spare time out of interest and been asked for websites by friends and family.
I digged a little into Orchard project and liked most of it. However documentation can be lacking and other .Net cms seem to be more popular. So I wanted to take a look at Umbraco.
Things that I really liked about Orchard was the modular nature and that it was open source. So I could add my own stuff if needed.
Also the way they handled Content like first class citizens. You could define your own types. One site I'm going to work on for example offers riding horses for rent. The idea would be that the site owners and wirters could just pick "add horse" and the would get a custom created form field (that I generated by picking the appropriate fields) for things like Name, color, picture etc.
This content would by added to a collection of these types automatically and shown in lists where appropriate without any extra action. Blog post would be an example of such a Content Type and would thusly be shown in the "Newest blog post" place instead of whatever else was there. This feature and the way you could filter and sort collections of these is very flexible and developer friendly.
Does Umbraco have these features and if so what are they called so I could look up a tutorial video and see how they compare.
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