Create new standards-compliant websites in minutes by choosing the pieces you need from best of breed “nitros”, which are constantly updated by the umbraco community
Boost – a website scaffold with the push of a button
Version 4 makes it easier than ever to get started with umbraco. All you need to do is push a button during the improved installation process and you have a no-nonsense website. With Boost installed, you’ll get a basic home page and text pages with clean markup ready to be customized. No disturbing graphics, no limited choices between layout columns. Just the pieces you need to get started, with standardized conventions to build upon.
Nitros – so fast you might consider it cheating
Once you’ve got the Boost website scaffolding, you’re ready to add some functionality such as navigation, sitemaps, various kinds of lists, and forms.
Many systems offer this through “modules”. But we think that modules are really just marketing lingo for randomly coupled extensions that almost—but not quite—work, and often introduces licensing issues. That’s why we swore never to add modules to umbraco until we found a solution. With umbraco 4 we have the solution. Say hello to modules like they should be. Say hello to umbraco Nitros.
Nitros encapsulate specific pieces of advanced functionality that are easily added to your website. Nitros are open source and easy to customize if you want to modify the behavior for your specific needs. Because Nitros are provided under the MIT license you are free to use and modify them any way you want, with no strings attached.
Nitros are installed—or uninstalled—with the click of a button in the umbraco UI. And the collection of available Nitros is constantly expanding with the latest, best of breed work from the fabulous umbraco community. With Nitros, your umbraco installation simply gets better as more people use umbraco.