Hello there, I wonder if you can help me at all. I’ve been
tasked to rebuild an existing site in umbraco. I’m learning asp.net at the
moment (I’m reading “ASP.NET 3.5 a beginners guide” and familiarizing with
visual studio 2008) because the idea is that the existing site will have to be
integrated in Umbraco as opposed to be built in it from scratch and my understanding is that asp.net will be useful for that task. Obviously – and
probably the most important thing - I will have to look into Umbraco too at
some points but what I’d really like is perhaps just a bit of guidance and the
direction I need to steer my learning to, like, is it OK to learn asp.net
first, is that the only thing I need to integrate a site with Umbraco and
anything else you guys could think of!
As new to Umbraco I would recommend you to take a look at the Umbraco TV. There are some free videos that would show the basic concepts of Umbraco, and should give you a good idea how to integrating a site in Umbraco. Some of the videos need that you subscribe to the Umbraco TV.
Hope this helps, if you have any other questions to the topic keep asking, or if you have other Umbraco questions keep create topics on the forum. We are friendly, as you properly already have noticed.
Thanks, I will most definitely look at those, but in terms of what I am learning, does it sound sensible? I mean, is it good for me to understand and use asp.net in view of using umbraco?
To me it make perfect sense, the Umbraco CMS is using the ASP.NET platform, so understanding the ASP.NET, will never hurt you at all :-)
For myself, I am working as a frontend developer, so I don´t do a lot of ASP.NET work, but I have a basic understanding about how ASP.NET works, which I find very useful, in my work with the Umbraco CMS.
Great, thanks! I's front end too, so no much asp so far, that's why I decided to start using asp.net, I just don't know how much of it I need to be able to integrate sites with umbraco :-)! Do you create pages in Umbraco or do you import HTML files? My understading is that creating them directly in umbraco doesn't require that much knowledge as opposed to import them (which should mean "integrate" them and that's when asp.net comes into play). This is what I have understood from having talked to people etc, but I might be wrong :-)!
You are creating pages, in Umbraco based on document types where you can define which fields that the user will be able to fill out. And in collaboration with what Umbraco calls templates. The templates is there you add your HTML and stuff.
Yes I have to have a good look at all the links, but being prett new I thought I'd ask some questions first :-). In anycase, thanks for all that, I am sure I will come back with more questions!
Integrating a site in umbraco
Hello there, I wonder if you can help me at all. I’ve been tasked to rebuild an existing site in umbraco. I’m learning asp.net at the moment (I’m reading “ASP.NET 3.5 a beginners guide” and familiarizing with visual studio 2008) because the idea is that the existing site will have to be integrated in Umbraco as opposed to be built in it from scratch and my understanding is that asp.net will be useful for that task. Obviously – and probably the most important thing - I will have to look into Umbraco too at some points but what I’d really like is perhaps just a bit of guidance and the direction I need to steer my learning to, like, is it OK to learn asp.net first, is that the only thing I need to integrate a site with Umbraco and anything else you guys could think of!
thanks
Hi astumb.
As new to Umbraco I would recommend you to take a look at the Umbraco TV. There are some free videos that would show the basic concepts of Umbraco, and should give you a good idea how to integrating a site in Umbraco. Some of the videos need that you subscribe to the Umbraco TV.
But here are some good free starter videos.
http://umbraco.tv/videos/umbraco-v7/implementor/
And there a some written documentation about the basic too.
http://our.umbraco.org/documentation/Using-Umbraco/Creating-Basic-Site/
http://our.umbraco.org/documentation/Using-Umbraco/Backoffice-Overview/
Hope this helps, if you have any other questions to the topic keep asking, or if you have other Umbraco questions keep create topics on the forum. We are friendly, as you properly already have noticed.
/Dennis
Thanks, I will most definitely look at those, but in terms of what I am learning, does it sound sensible? I mean, is it good for me to understand and use asp.net in view of using umbraco?
Hi astumb.
To me it make perfect sense, the Umbraco CMS is using the ASP.NET platform, so understanding the ASP.NET, will never hurt you at all :-)
For myself, I am working as a frontend developer, so I don´t do a lot of ASP.NET work, but I have a basic understanding about how ASP.NET works, which I find very useful, in my work with the Umbraco CMS.
/Dennis
Great, thanks! I's front end too, so no much asp so far, that's why I decided to start using asp.net, I just don't know how much of it I need to be able to integrate sites with umbraco :-)! Do you create pages in Umbraco or do you import HTML files? My understading is that creating them directly in umbraco doesn't require that much knowledge as opposed to import them (which should mean "integrate" them and that's when asp.net comes into play). This is what I have understood from having talked to people etc, but I might be wrong :-)!
Hi astumb.
You are creating pages, in Umbraco based on document types where you can define which fields that the user will be able to fill out. And in collaboration with what Umbraco calls templates. The templates is there you add your HTML and stuff.
Try to see this documentation.
Documentation for document types:
http://umbraco.tv/videos/umbraco-v7/implementor/fundamentals/document-types/what-is-a-document-type/
http://our.umbraco.org/documentation/Using-Umbraco/Creating-Basic-Site/Document-Types
Documentation for working with templates.
http://our.umbraco.org/documentation/Using-Umbraco/Creating-Basic-Site/Creating-Your-First-Template-and-Content-Node
http://umbraco.tv/videos/umbraco-v7/implementor/fundamentals/templating/
Hope this helps, and try to see the basic videos about Umbraco here. I think it will give you lots of good knowledge about Umbraco works. http://umbraco.tv/videos/umbraco-v7/implementor/
If you still have questions keep asking them, and I would try to help you out.
/Dennis
Yes I have to have a good look at all the links, but being prett new I thought I'd ask some questions first :-). In anycase, thanks for all that, I am sure I will come back with more questions!
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