I have mentioned Umbraco on this blog before, and now having worked with it for some time I like it even more. Yet despite my likes it suffers from a fundamental problem that as far as I can tell dates back to it's creation possibly in 2004. Unfortunately Umbraco suffers from a lack of documentation and admittedly so. There are links to many tutorials on how to use the product and how to install it, however many of them are broken links, incomplete or out of date content, or just flat out wrong. The Umbraco site itself has a number of what it calls "books" which are really their help documentation, however they are user submitted and so largley incomplete and unprofessional.
With that said, and to help get some good knowledge out there about this great product I decided I would write my own guide, tutorial, documentation or whatever you want to call it. So, this is a precursor to what will be a 5 part series on the Umbraco platform. I am hoping that this will help out those of you who are new the product and like me had a hard time finding anything either did abandon it, or almost did. The series will cover everything from installation all the way to a fully functioning Web site using Umbraco's many tools and resources and I will be creating the site that you see in the series live and on the fly.
As of now the series is looking to break down something like this:
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Settings (Templates, Data Types)
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Developer (XSLT, Macros)
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Content (Building Pages, Media)
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Membership
So keep an eye out in the coming weeks as I will be doing a lot of writing, to get these in order and you should see them begin popping up really soon!