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Umbraco
19 Aug 20
Mike's Umbraco 8 Masterclass: why we use centralised content
Mike explains why we use the concept of centralised content when designing the website editor experience – allowing you to save time and improve accuracy.
Umbraco
6 Jul 20
Umbraco 8: secrets of the Rich Text Editor
The rich text editor allows you to format text and more as you would with any word processor such as Microsoft Word, Apple Pages or Google Docs. Mike guides you through all the functions to make you a master text editor.
Umbraco
17 Jun 20
Mike's Umbraco 8 Masterclass: The Media Section
The media section is your central library of images and files that can be embedded or linked to from your content pages. Improve your CMS editor skills and learn how to make the most out of this critical section in Umbraco.
Umbraco
18 May 20
Mike's Umbraco 8 Masterclass: The Sorting Function
Discover the magic that is the Sorting function in Umbraco! Putting you in the driving seat of how content is ordered in the front and back end, making it easy to maintain a great site structure.
Umbraco
22 Apr 20
Mike's Editor Masterclass: How to manage users in Umbraco 8
In any website content management system, your editors are central to the efficient management of your content. In this article, Mike guides you through how to manage users in Umbraco 8.
Umbraco
26 Feb 20
Multilingual Websites in Umbraco 8
One of the headline-grabbing features of Umbraco 8 is Language Variants, a big step forward in the management of multilingual websites. In this article, we take you through the new functionality and its benefits.
Umbraco
24 Jul 19
Umbraco 8 Review
Having now implemented Umbraco 8 on a few websites, our Technical Director Mike Royle provides a review covering features, benefits and challenges.
Umbraco
6 Jan 17
An introduction to the Umbraco v.7 Content Management System
This quick guide is intended to help you get started with using your Umbraco Content Management System (CMS). It will also provide a better idea of what the system is like if you have never used it before and think it might be for you.
Umbraco
19 Oct 15
Great new Umbraco feature: GRIDS
Umbraco Grids is now available on the latest version of Umbraco and we are excited about what this will mean for our clients in terms of future editing capabilities.
Umbraco
14 Aug 15
Umbraco is 15 years old and this is why we love working with it
Umbraco is the Content Management System (CMS) we use to build websites. It was started by a Dane, Niels Hartvig, in 2000 and was publicly launched for the first time in 2004. Here are five interesting facts that explain why we think it is so special.
Umbraco
24 Apr 15
New Umbraco Preview Mode
The new preview mode in Umbraco, our Content Management System (CMS) lets you quickly see how your page will look on difference devices and lets you instantly switch between different device previews. It's a great new feature for editors to get an instant look at how their content will display on any device before pushing the publish button.
Umbraco
27 Nov 14
Umbraco UK Festival 2014
Last Friday I had the pleasure of attending the Umbraco UK Festival at the Skills Matter building in London. The UK Festival is the biggest and (probably) the best Umbraco event outside of Denmark, bringing in all sorts of Umbraco enthusiasts from around the world! It consists of a whole day of talks on various subjects mostly relating to Umbraco such as demoing new features and talking about how to use different bits of technology within Umbraco.
Umbraco
26 Sep 14
How is Umbraco different to WordPress?
This is a question we get asked quite a lot. Any discussion about one system vs another will have arguments from its supporters (sometimes heated and even fanatical) so I’ll do my best to give our point of view in a balanced way. We have used both but have chosen to specialise in Umbraco as our Content Management System (CMS) of choice. Hopefully this article will give you a bit more understanding on the big differences.
Umbraco
14 Feb 14
Umbraco 7 - The first 3 months
Umbraco 7 was officially released in November 2013. We’ve had a few months experience and a few sites built and released into the wild so thought it was a good time to let you know what we think!
Umbraco
12 Nov 13
Umbraco UK Festival 2013
Last Friday I had the pleasure of attending the annual Umbraco UK Festival in London. Whilst it's called a 'festival' there were no live bands or endless queues for portaloos, but rather a coming together of people passionate about web development to share knowledge and get the inside track on upcoming features of the Umbraco Content Management System.