My Venture To Find The Best Cms

On my quest to find a suitable CMS I've ducked in and out of DotNetNuke

, tried Telerik and the more commercial ones like Sitecore. However by far my preferred to date is Umbraco. In this write-up I set about detailing why I adore Umbraco so much and just how using it has made not only my life easier but has bolstered my vocation.

I was introduced to it in its early 3.0 days and at the time our business was doing a bulk assessment of everything out there. One of the employees there took a particular chance with the little known Umbraco CMS, something which I remember more for its bizarre sounding name. In time we developed a few web-sites for clients with it and knew that there really wasn't much we couldn't do with it. I even recall Niels Hartvig coming to our office in Australia provide some instruction. Nice enough bloke although I was beside myself that I never got to go to the training due to other work necessitates.

When I migrated back to the UK I started work for a travel company provider who hired me as one of their three architects. The client project was of a reasonable size and though the company specialised in travel API's and the like, I also came to understand that client was also after a CMS. It was a significant venture but it created several fantastic results:

1. Since Umbraco will only function with UserControls it compelled us to modularise all of our existing core components. This actually caused us to think more meticulously about our architecture and in the end lead to the development of a set of completely reusable components which were deployable in any project, whether for Umbraco or not. The fact the Umbraco makes it possible for you to pass in parameters to the controls via the CMS was a great selling point. This meant that system managers could tweak certain features of the booking workflows, bring up to date dropdowns and make modifications to pricing models. In one example we had a difficult time attempting to get the client to agree on the way the airport selector should function. In the end the answer was to provide all the available alternatives and allow them to switch these on and off at the leisure. Trying each one out allowed them to get some beneficial customer reviews and because it was all maintained in Umbraco they didn't need to keep coming to us to ask for the change.

2. Several levels of access ensured that certain marketing staff could be given specific nodes in the Umbraco tree. From a control point of view this was a real win/win. Marketing managers could leave their marketing team in charge of key areas of the promotional aspect of the sites without having to be concerned about overlaps and duplication of effort.

3. The fact that it was so well supported was another advantage for me. I remember being in a training meeting with the same client and we were talking about Umbraco macros. In the course of the presentation I lost my way and one of the participants was able to get me back on track simply because he had used Umbraco himself.

I'm pleased to say that this project was a significant success and in large measure this was credited to Umbraco's ease of use and therefore subsequent adoption.

Since then I've worked for smaller companies and whenever the need arises for some structure in any project I often like to suggest Umbraco as a starting stage. Since it has so many features out of the box to help you get you started I often feel its a no brainer. With the new Razor and Cloud endeavours I think its just a matter of time before this turns into the defacto open source standard for all .net CMS's.

If your still tintering on the sides and pondering if its worth the time and investment then give me a call. I can promise you will not be disappointed and don't forget its still free.

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