Think of Umbraco as the powerful engine behind the websites we make, and you’re in the driving seat! Don’t be afraid, it’s lovely to drive!


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What is Umbraco?

Umbraco is an easy to use, open source .NET content management system (CMS). Umbraco allows our clients to manage and update their own website without any technical know-how. There are more than 85,000 websites worldwide using umbraco making it one of the most popular open source content management systems available to date.


What are the benefits of Umbraco?

There are many benefits for companies to use Umbraco:

  • No technical knowledge required to update and manage content.
  • Content is logically arranged in a branched folder structure, making it easy to manage.
  • Updates can be performed instantly.
  • Open-source meaning its FREE (but don't be fooled its extremely powerful under the bonnet)
  • Great for building best practice search engine optimised sites, Google loves it!
  • Easy to Integrate Google Analytics, so you can see how well your site is performing
  • Can allocate user permissions, allowing each department to manage their own section of the site.
  • Content is seperate from the styling, making it easy to restyle in the future should you wish to.

Feature List

Simple editing

Adding and updating content for an Umbraco website is as easy as writing a document in Microsoft Word.

Simplicity is key, only the necassary styling controls are displayed, this enables the site to retain a consistent look and feel across the entire website.

Content can be saved as a draft, or published at a click of a button.

Content Scheduling

Content scheduling means you can set a date for a page to go live, or set an expiry date. This can be useful if you're advertising a promotion, or releasing a press release which needs to go live on a certain day.

Version Control

Umbraco saves every content change you make, meaning you'll never loose an article or a piece of content you've written again.

Simply right click on the page, and you'll be able to compare previous versions of text, Umbraco even highlights the variations between copy.

Media Library

Umbraco has a very useful media library to store and categorise all your images, documents and other media material.

As your site grows, so does your media library, making it an invaluable asset management tool.

One of the major advantages of the media library is that should you need to update an image, it'll update everywhere else on the website automatically.

Cross Browser Complient

Do your employees work on a mixture of MACs and PCs? no problem! Umbraco works on all platforms and browsers. As long as you have an internet connection, you can maintain and update your website anywhere, anytime.

Workflow

Some companies require an approval process before content can be published. This is easy with Umbraco - it gives you full control over the publishing process. Umbraco also can be setup to notify you should certain events take place.

Role Based Permissions

Umbraco allows you assign permissions to users allowing them to be responsible for their own section of the website.

For example you can assign permissions that allows the PR team to manage the news section of the website, and the marketing team to manage another section.

Multi-Lingual

We are able to create multi-lingual websites using Umbraco so your customers can browse in their preferred language.

Umbraco also comes with 15 predefined languages enabling web administrators to manage the site in their own language. Creating new language packs for Umbraco is also very easy.