Umbraco – an Open Source CMS

Recently I had a number of chances to work with the most popular Umbraco CMS, so I planned to pen down an introduction to the most flexible CMS. Umbraco is a leading .NET based open source content management system platform for publishing content on the web.
Basically it’s written in C# and deployed on Microsoft infrastructure, stores the data in a number of relational databases like SQL Server. Umbraco is typically deployed in IIS. Umbraco is built upon Microsoft’s .NET Framework, Microsoft SQL Server and XSLT (it’s an XML based language for transformation of XML documents). This is designed in such a way that it supports a high level of flexibility in customization, easy to integrate the existing technologies with lesser effort. We can use ASP.NET user controls, master pages, Membership role providers etc with Umbraco.
Upon working with this CMS in couple of projects, I can say that it’s a very simple and flexible CMS which can cater to the needs of content editors, developers and designers individually. It’s very easy to set up and run an Umbraco installation, step by step installation notes have been provided in the Umbraco site. The major advantage which I felt was rapid Web site development, content editors, designers and developers can work in parallel which can ensure a rapid delivery of the project. Microsoft has stated Umbraco as one among the top five popular downloads via Microsoft Web platform installer.
Do check the Umbraco site for more information http://umbraco.org/ . Keep watching my blog on more posts in Umbraco.