What is Umbraco
Umbraco CMS is the choice of many organizations because
of its no-cost, open-source licensing, its simplicity, and its
unlimited potential. Umbraco provides a full featured web content
management system that is easy to use, simple to customize, and
robust enough to run sites for Fortune 500 companies and some of
the largest media sites in the world.
Umbraco is easy to learn and use for content creators,
webmasters, and web developers alike. Within minutes users can
begin working with Umbraco customizing it for their specific use.
It uses industry-standard languages so your team can leverage their
existing skills to easily work with Umbraco.
Content writers and editors will immediately recognize Umbraco's
interface with its easy to understand tree-view of pages and
WYSIWYG page editor. An Umbraco site can be easily started with one
of the included starter kits, a skin applied to give the site a
unique look and feel, and content added all in under an hour.
Umbraco is strongly supported by both an active community of
users around the world and by a rock-solid commercial organization
providing professional support and tools. Umbraco can be easily
used in its free, open-source format and professional tools and
support can be added as needed. Umbraco is free for all to use and
you only pay for the additional value provided by professional
support and tools, all at your discretion and without
obligation.
Download Umbraco or install it
easily using the Microsoft Web Platform
Installer.
Why Umbraco loves Windows Azure
Umbraco loves Windows Azure because it lets the user
focus on the experience not the infrastructure; gives every site a
global presence, places no limits on scale or growth, and has no
fixed costs. Nearly every site, no matter how modest, can take
advantage of the cloud with Windows Azure, and we think nearly
every site should.
The evolution of cloud computing now enables any Umbraco site to
take advantage of the Windows Azure platform. Windows Azure, and
the Windows Azure Accelerator for Umbraco, remove all concern
around infrastructure and management with an approach that "just
works." The Windows Azure approach works at any scale you need,
from a basic site requiring better than average availability, to
massively scaled sites serving millions of page views and terabytes
of video.
Download the Windows Azure
Accelerator and try it yourself.
Who is using Umbraco?
With more than 85,000 sites around the world using Umbraco the
variety of sites is tremendous. Here are a few sites that use
Umbraco to get you started.