Umbraco at Le Web

An intro on Umbraco for Le Web, the ‘friendly’ CMS…

Who are Umbraco?

The web CMS built with simplicity in mind and flexible enough for any scenario, popular due to its no-cost, open-source licensing and simplicity. Umbraco provides a full-featured web content management system that is easy to use, simple to customize, and robust enough to run the largest sites such as wired.co.uk and asp.net.

What’s brilliant about Umbraco?

They’re really innovative. They’ve got a killer Windows Phone 7 app that allows you to manage your content on the go, they’ve also embraced the cloud – meaning developers can deploy to an architecture that lets them scale their sites at low-cost, in an easy way. For instance imagine you’re developing microsite for a marketing campaign, a short-lived but very high traffic project where visitor numbers will fluctuate wildly. Imagine not having to spend time forecasting all the numbers so you can focus on building the site to the best that it can be. That’s why Umbraco chose to build on Windows Azure.

In addition they’re building from the ground-up in version 5, to embrace .NET advancements such as MVC3.

Who will be at Le Web?

Niels Hartvig, Founder

Niels sets the direction and focus for the Umbraco project with a guiding philosophy he calls ‘sustainable idealism.’

He inspires the passion and hard-work that make Umbraco the best ASP.NET CMS in the world. He can be reached at hartvig@umbraco.net.

Paul Sterling, Partner

Paul is the force behind Umbraco’s presence in North America. He is focused on evangelizing the power and flexibility of Umbraco to new users. Paul is the driver behind Umbraco’s evolution to support the non-technical user and developer alike. He works with partners to develop technical and marketing collaboration. Paul is at paul@umbraco.net.

how should people get in touch to find out more?

Visit the site at Umbraco.org, or follow them on Twitter @umbraco.

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