Before we really kick off this 24 day umbraco tutorial, I'd think it's nice knowing where to look for help and references when working with umbraco, so here's a list of pointers and blogs I follow.
Official umbraco resources:
- The official umbraco website - umbraco.org
You're right here, but do you know about all the gems? The book section is full of neat inspiration to get you started and open eyes for special umbraco functionality like the integration of the Metablog Apis or "umbraco Base" for accessing .net classes via a simple url.
- The official umbraco forum - form.umbraco.org
The most friendly forum in the world :-) With more than 10.000 posts and answers and traffic increase up from 2.500 visitors to 26.000 visitors in a year, it clearly shows that umbraco is getting more and more popular.
- The Package Repository
The collection of all community packages approved by the Package Repository Group. Mentioned in the december 1st post, but also accessible from outside the umbraco interface
- Codeplex.com/umbraco
The one-stop site for getting the umbraco source, submitting ideas and issues and asking core-related questions in discussions.
Semi-official resources:
- umbraco community search
A brilliant custom google search engine that indexes all umbraco related site, both unofficial and official. Instant access to more than 25 umbraco related resources including various umbraco related blogs.
umbraco wiki
Contains a good bunch of tricks and documentation collected by the community.
Great blogs:
- Objects.dk
umbraco MVP Per Ploug Hansen runs the best blog on umbraco. Packed with information on how to use gems well hidden in umbraco as well as releases of great packages like the Tagging Package and the Log Viewer
- Umbraco Playground of Tim Geyssens
Tim is hot in the heels of Per when it comes to releasing great packages. Even though it's less than a year since he started using umbraco, he's already released a Poll and Star rating package and are a great help in the forums
Got a resource to add - throw a comment. See you tomorrow where "the real" starter tutorial will begin.