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MSRPO (Minnesota Seasonal Recreational Property Owners) Coalition speaks for recreational property owners at the State Capitol, seeking tax fairness, and greater support for families that own cabins, lake-shore, hunting shacks and seasonal property in Minnesota. In order to effectively carry out this mission, it is paramount that they are able to communicate effectively with their constituents. (more…)
The Business Website Starter Pack is an early release of a starter kit for business-oriented umbraco sites, aiming to kickstart development and give new umbraco devs a good starting point for building their own sites.
Lee Messenger has published a very valuable blogpost at BlogFodder called A Complete Newbie’s Guide to Umbraco which serves as a collection of excellent links and information specifically targeted to Umbraco newbies (of which I am one!) It’s great to see this type of information being published around Umbraco as it will help build the user base by making it easier for newbies to get involved in this great CMS. One of the recommendations that Lee makes is that you should join Umbraco.tv (19 eur per month) to gain access to over 5 hours of video training. I plan on checking out these videos as I get more involved in Umbraco.development.
I’ve just had my second look at Umbraco, an ASP.Net content management system (CMS). When I first stumbled on Umbraco about a year ago, I misunderstood the license agreement to mean that in order to use the open source version of the software, you were required to put “Powered by Umbraco” on the home page of the site. After a closer look, reveals that this is not true. The only Umbraco branding that you’re stuck with is in the control panel. This works just fine for my purpose which is to give my clients a framework within which they can edit their own content. (more…)
