Why Umbraco?

Umbraco is a fully-featured open source content management system with the flexibility to run anything from small campaign or brochure sites right through to complex applications for Fortune 500's and some of the largest media sites in the world.

...Oh, and did we mention that it's free?

Umbraco is easy to learn and use, making it perfect for web designers, developers and content creators alike.

You can be up and running in just a few minutes with our simple installer. Either apply one of the included starter kits or seamlessly integrate your own design.

Umbraco is strongly supported by both an active and welcoming community of users around the world, and backed up by a rock-solid commercial organization providing professional support and tools. Umbraco can be used in its free, open-source format with the additional option of professional tools and support if required.

Site Owners

With Umbraco it's incredibly easy to manage your site and focus on producing great content.

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Designers

Don't fear Umbraco, as it won't interfere with your beautiful CSS & HTML markup.

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Developers

Rapidly build your website using Umbraco with powerful API's and easy extensibility.

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Powerful yet simple to use

With simple and customisable editing and content creation tools, it's easy to manage and maintain your website exactly how you want it. Umbraco doesn't dictate how you should work - that should be up to you, not your content management system.

Editors have as little or as much freedom as they need. And if you don't like the changes you've made? Simply rollback to a previous version. It's that easy!

Support for all

At Umbraco, support is paramount. We offer professional support regardless of the options you choose. From our dedicated core support team through to our friendly and helpful community at our.umbraco.org, we've got you covered.

Confidence Support Solution Providers

Hello, Bonjour, Hej, Ciao

Not only can you publish great multilingual websites using Umbraco out of the box, you can also build in your chosen language with our multilingual back office tools.

Plenty of ready to use packages

Our very active community site is full of handy packages for all kinds of tasks. With a range of free and commercial packages, it's easy to enhance your productivity and save time too!

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Microsoft Word Support

Using familiar tools such as Microsoft Word™ or Windows LiveWriter™, you can write or edit your blog or news pages without even opening the browser.

Need to convince your boss?

If this all sounds great but you have to convince your boss, don't worry, we've got you covered. We have carefully crafted a document that outlines all that they need to know.

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You're in great company. Who's running Umbraco?

Wired.co.uk

CondéNast International selected Umbraco in 2009 for the relaunch of Wired UK. The team at CondéNast Digital UK have recently completed a design refresh, and have also rolled out Umbraco to a number of their other sites including GQ, Glamour Magazine and CondéNast Traveller.

Visit Wired

Heinz.com

The IT team at Heinz wished to implement a new CMS for easier maintenance of their new site. Based on past success, Agency 1903 recommended that Heinz use Umbraco. After a test run, Heinz determined that Umbraco was the most accessible and ultimately the best choice for the site. Umbraco's UI allowed employees of all backgrounds to easily enter the CMS and make changes, more than validating its implementation.

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SanDisk.com

A few years ago, Sandisk had moved their 27 localized sites in 13 different languages from a house-built CMS to Umbraco. They chose Umbraco because of its flexibility to accommodate each locale's unique requirements while keeping a central store of shared information, and the ability to deploy targeted-campaign sites quickly.

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TakeThat.com

TakeThat.com is the offical website for Take That, one of the UK's biggest acts. The site is 'socially connected', allowing its users to comment on the site using Facebook Connect. During ticket sales for their most recent concert (summer 2011) the site peaked at 250,000 unique views per hour and Umbraco was able to reliably deal with such a high demand of requests.

Universal Music Group International had this to say about Umbraco:
"Any platform that allows you to get from zero to launch in 4 weeks, with such ease and confidence and then manages to hold up and deliver in excess of 6M page views in a single day, has got to be worth a closer look."

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TescoPlc.com

Tesco PLC is the third largest retailer in the world, founded and headquartered in the UK with stores in 14 countries. Their website is the cornerstone of Tesco PLC online, featuring public media libraries, video streaming and integrated investor tools allowing shareholders to calculate stock holdings and analyse share history and investment.

The site is also the first point of call for global media, storing 5 years worth of Tesco press releases and financial information. In addition, it promotes the retailer's investment into sustainability and corporate responsibility. Tesco PLC uses modern web standards such as HTML5 and CSS3, and is running in the cloud with Windows Azure.

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HenriLloyd.com

Henri Lloyd is based in Manchester, UK. They are a global brand who specialise in marine clothing and who sponsor the Mercedes Formula One Team.

The Henri Llyod site is highly intergrated with their stock management systems allowing them to have a seamless e-commerce solution with localised sites for their brand.

Graham Allen Commercial Director of Henri Lloyd says:
"The HenriLloyd.com site captures the essence of our brand online. Umbraco has enabled us to have a strong global e-commerce and content managed site for all areas of our business."

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LoveBeverlyHills.com

Love Beverly Hills is the official website of the Beverly Hills Conference and Visitors Bureau. The site provides visitors information about personalised & specialised stores and events around Beverly Hills depending on what option (eg. shopping, food, culture) the visitor selects from "What do you love?"

Jessica O'Brien from Beverly Hills Conference and Visitors Bureau says:
"The way Umbraco was set up to store business listings for over 1000 partner merchants makes it simple and easy for me to quickly make updates and see the results across multiple pages of our site. The ability to enter a partner's address and have all the back-end 'magic' automatically occur and appear on a Google map, saves me a ton of time"

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ThisIsCentralStation.com

This is Central Station is a creative social network where artists, designers and filmmakers can showcase their work, promote events and find work opportunities.

Genny Cotroneo of Central Station Community says:
"Sometimes working on the Central Station site can feel like traffic controlling a busy urban main train line - with the amount of traffic from users and updating required, we'd be lost without a CMS that is easy to use. Umbraco makes managing the site quick and simple, giving the team time to focus on content rather than maintenance."

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UnforgettableSwims.Speedo.com

The world's leading swimwear brand Speedo, has created their campaign site using Umbraco. The Speedo website allows user generated content about customer's personal stories about swimming and the Speedo brand to increase brand awareness.

Using Umbraco means Speedo can moderate the user generated content of this campaign site very easily, whilst also allowing them to provide localised international content.

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Home.dk

Home.dk is the biggest and most famous chain of real estate agents in Denmark, generating annual sales of real estate to a value of 20-30 billion Danish kroner, and allowing visitors to easily find the house of their dreams.

Home.dk is tightly intergrated with 12 different external systems including the real estate backend, making Umbraco the hub for data distribution between the website, email marketing and Smartphone application.

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Hollandtoer.nl

Hollandtoer is an interactive travel guide showcasing the tourist highlights of the Netherlands. The site features 360 degree panorama pictures, allowing the visitor to see street views of the historical city centres. It also displays many shops, restaurants, hotels, churches and museums from the inside through high quality panoramic images.

The photographers & content editors have a great experience with Umbraco updating the website, as EXIF information is pulled from the photographs automatically to place on the map. Currently there are 15,000 panoramic pictures divided over 35 city websites, accumulated in a single Umbraco instance that contains around 45,000 nodes.

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HenningLarsen.com

Henning Larsen Architects is an international architecture company with strong Scandinavian roots. Their goal is to create vibrant sustainable buildings that reach beyond themselves and become of durable value to the user and to the society and culture that they are built into.

One of the key features of the Henning Larsen Architects website is the ability to allow visitors to pick and chose articles from the website to build their own magazine of articles as a PDF. For the content editors in Umbraco that means simply writing one article which is then optimised for the website and for the article for the magazine PDF automatically.

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NLEngenharia.com

NL Engenharia designs intellectual capital such as management systems and business processes. They also design physical structures such as offices and buildings. Whatever they design they apply the same passion and creativity combined with rigorous quality standards.

NL Engenharia wanted a site that looked and felt like a traditional Flash site, however they were able to build a pure HTML & JavaScript solution that is easily indexable by a search engine instead.

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FDIH.dk

The Danish Distance Selling and E-business Association (Foreningen for Distance og Internet Handel - FDIH) provides resources, events, workshops and information assuring your business success on the Web.

With a new website based on Umbraco, FDIH has made it easier for their members to sign up for events and gain access to information such as slides and webcasts. Through dashboards in the Umbraco backoffice FDIH has easy access to attendee information and incoming orders, and through the content section the editors can easily add the resources which should be available to their growing user database.

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Full control over Design and Markup

There is nothing worse than a CMS deciding what markup you should use. That's why we give you 100% control over templating and output, with no limitations to your design.

CSS Control

We think editors are happier focusing on producing great content, not worrying about layout. Adding design guidelines for your editors to follow will allow you to specify which CSS rules your editors can use in the built-in wysiwyg editor, with human-friendly names you control. "Big Old Headline" makes a lot more sense to an editor than H1 right? And you can rest easy, knowing they're not destroying your design.

Flash? Silverlight? No problem!

Umbraco is a master at delivering content such as xml, which makes it a perfect match for delivering dynamic content to Flash, Silverlight, and other tools without altering your markup.

Starter Kits & Skins

Our starter kits take you from 0-to-done in minutes. These simple website starter kits let you install a site with great markup and apply a skin with great design. You can even change the default if you're feeling a bit creative.

Use your Favourite Editor

Using your editor of choice is easy, be it Visual Studio, WebMatrix, Notepad++, DreamWeaver or any other to modify your website. Or, if you prefer you can use our integrated web-based editor.

Umbraco.TV

To get you up to speed quickly, we've created a series of free video tutorials. For more in depth how-to videos, you can sign up to Umbraco.TV for just 19EUR / 25USD per month.

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Integrate .NET Controls

CTRL+C. CRTL+V = Umbraco Integration. We love .NET and we know you do too. But we also love working with .NET in ways we're familiar with. With this in mind, you can use .NET Custom Controls and User Controls without having to jump through hoops.

Performance

With built-in content cache and dynamic cache for macros your site is given a huge performance boost, ensuring a great experience for your site's visitors. You'll also have a great editing experience due to back-office CSS and JavaScript Optimization.

Easy to use API's

The Umbraco API gives you programmatic access to everything in the Umbraco CMS, plus the API is easy to use from Visual Studio or any other development tool.

Search

Our fully customizable, built-in search feature can accommodate nearly any search requirement. This means your users and website visitors can find exactly what they're looking for.

Thorough documentation

Utilising an extensive and well documented API, you can import content from a legacy application/website, create and edit advanced user profiles or run scheduled maintenance.

The friendliest community

With a very active forum, wiki, collaborative projects area, and "meet up" suggestion area, Umbraco truly is "the friendly CMS". This is thanks to the helpful and active community of users and developers.

Our.Umbraco.org