Umbraco is an extensively featured open-source CMS with the versatility to implement anything from small action or brochure websites right through to compound applications and some of the vast media sites in the world. It is simple to learn and utilize, guiding it best for web designers, developers, and content creators.
Umbraco reinforces both MVC and WebForms. It’s the latest UI, pure .NET architecture, and active community makes it the perfect choice for web CMS.
According to Jack Zmudzinski, a Senior Associate at Future-processing.com says, “When it comes to .Net based CMS, our weapon of choice is Umbraco and, I’ll tell you why.
First and foremost, Umbraco is ridiculously easy to install, use and to customise unlike some more fiddly systems out there. There’s a reason that Umbraco is known as ‘the friendly CMS’ as the interface is really simple and straightforward.
Secondly, Umbraco supports both MVC and WebForums which adds a nice little bit of flexibility to your working as well as being hugely scalable.
Thirdly, and one of my favourites, Umbraco has a super-active and hugely responsive community which means that, if you ever need to reach out for help or advise, you’ll find that it’s available quickly and easily.
Umbraco ticks a number of boxes in terms of features such as:
Having been using Umbraco for a while, I firmly believe that it’s the best out there but, don’t just take my word for it, give it a go for yourself.”
Another opinion from William Chin, Web Consultant of PickFu.com says, “One of the best CMS I've used for ASP.net is Umbraco. Despite being quite an old CMS (first created in early 2000s) - there are many upsides to Umbraco.
For one, it's EXTREMELY easy to spin up a website. What I mean by that is it takes only an hour or so to actually get a local Umbraco environment built, and maybe an hour or two more to actually get it live (factoring in hosting and DNS propagation in there as well). Although not as fast as WordPress, it's still pretty quick for it's age.
Next, it's fairly easy to develop on and to generate fields and "hooks" VIA C#. I would say between the two, if you have knowledge of C# and Asp.net, it's easier to customize an Umbraco theme vs. WordPress theme (MySQL and PHP).
Compared to other asp.net content management systems, there are none better than Umbraco.”