Free doesn’t mean a lack of features. umbraco offers full content versioning with rollback, advanced role based security, Microsoft Word style WYSIWYG editor, digital asset management, a flexible notification system plus many more features that usually require an "enterprise" label on the box. The best feature of all is that umbraco is 100% free, easy to use and fast to implement. No more complex manuals, user frustration and endless development effort.
Committed to standards
We are fully committed to supporting web standards. umbraco makes it easy to build .NET powered websites with full support for strict XHTML and accessibility standards. Whether it’s the built in WYSIWYG editor or our package repository, you can be certain that it will conform to all web standards, including W3C specifications and SiteMorse.
A simplified developer experience
umbraco has been designed to make it fast and easy to develop applications. Even though umbraco offers powerful and automated Create / Read / Update / Delete operations as well as a slick GUI, developers can still retain complete developmental control. You can use any of your existing tools (Visual Studio, DreamWeaver, Notepad, etc) in combination with the simple umbraco web based client to integrate your custom code. umbraco fully supports existing .NET user and custom controls, and uses XSLT (a W3C standard) for fast transformation of published content.
umbraco is fully extensible and comes with an extensive set of easy to use APIs that enable you to work with content using any .NET language or even Web services. Even though you always have access to the umbraco source code, you’ll never need it to extend umbraco. A clever combination of interfaces and automatic discovery through reflection allows you to customize umbraco to satisfy even the most advanced requirements.
Active and vibrant community
Our award winning community is active around the clock and across the globe. Over 95% of forum posts get a reply and the average response time is just two hours. That’s 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The friendly help and assistance you’ll receive is second to none and we’re even active in real life through local user group meetings and our annual developer conference, CodeGarden.
We're pretty sure you'll be convinced. If not - we'd be happy if you took time to tell us why.