Umbraco User's Guide

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

PART I: CREATING YOUR FIRST SITE WITH UMBRACO

CHAPTER 1: INSTALLING FOR THE FIRST TIME

Installing Umbraco

Installing Umbraco using the Microsoft Web Platform Installer

Installing Umbraco Manually

Tips for Installing Umbraco in Special Environments

Debugging in a Development Environment

Security Settings in a Production Environment

Other Installation Scenarios

Upgrading Umbraco

Performing a Patch Upgrade

Performing a Version Upgrade

Utilizing Umbraco Starter Kits

Installing a Starter Kit

Simple Starter Kit

Blog Starter Kit

Personal Starter Kit

Business Starter Kit

Extending the Starter Kits

Applying and Manipulating Umbraco Skins

Customizing a Skin

Modifying a Simple Umbraco Skin

Finding and Installing Umbraco Modules

Take Home Points

CHAPTER 2: THE UMBRACO APPROACH

Separating Content and Structure

Understanding the Umbraco Backoffice Structure

Creating a User with Restricted Access

Umbraco Content Tree

Umbraco Building Blocks

Content

Users

Functions and Properties

User Types

Setting Up a New Dictionary Label

Permissions

Setting Up a User for Access to Multiple Start Nodes

Media

Settings

Developer

Members

Creating a Member Group

Creating a Member Type

Translation

Take Home Points

CHAPTER 3: DOCUMENT TYPES

The Data Model

Flexible Content Structure

Creating a Document Type

Restricting the Type of Content

Using Parent Document Types

Working with Document Types Outside of Umbraco

Exporting a Document Type

Importing a Document Type

Exporting Document Types as Plain ...