Umbraco

We believe that it's important to choose the right framework for building your website. One that enables you to achieve the best outcome, both for your customers and also for yourselves.

We've chosen Umbraco as our CMS of choice because it delivers an enterprise level solution with the features and security you'd expect but the benefits of flexibility and lower costs associated with open source options.

To find out more about the features and benefits see below or contact us for more information:

We're Umbraco certified partners, with over 20 years of combined development experience. This means we know how to get the best out of the CMS on your behalf so that you can deliver a return on your investment.

Quick Overview

Umbraco is a great CMS for CEOs of organisations looking to improve their website presence and provides functionality, flexibility and scalability that is built on established Microsoft foundations:

• Enterprise features and scalability from a FREE open source product
• Fully responsive web based back office that can be used from any modern device
• Fast and flexible custom layouts
• Easy to understand and intuitive controls for regular publishing
• No prior CMS / HTML knowledge needed
• Scalable and configurable to meet the most demanding traffic
• Perfect for custom integrations into your back office eco system
• Built on established Microsoft Technology
• Increase ROI with a quicker time to market through enterprise features and publishing

Key Technical Features

An enterprise level CMS option for CTOs, Technical Architects, Business Analysts that is backed by Umbraco HQ and endorsed by Microsoft, yet has open source benefits of flexibility and no licence costs: 

• Runs on the Microsoft Tech Stack, ASP.NET MVC 5, C#, SQL Server
• Endorsed by Microsoft, operated and run by Umbraco HQ in Denmark
• Can be set up to run in various configurations e.g. multi-tenant, cloud based, load balanced
• Integrate with your existing back office to capture and collect data (e.g. CRM, Analytics)
• Multilingual support for the front end and back office
• Designed for use with HTTPS in both the front end and back office
• Regular security reviews and PEN testing on the open source code base
• Extensible feature set allowing for more customisation of the back office and users

Marketing Features

Umbraco enables digital marketing managers to create a modern feature rich website that will reflect your marketing strategy as it evolves:

• Quickly create custom landing pages and sections to reach new audiences
• Easily integrate with common web based features like online chat or email marketing
• Install Umbraco extensions for custom e-commerce and personalization
• Integrate with offline marketing strategies with custom urls and calls-to-action
• Take granular control of specific SEO fields to help boost your rankings
• Store and create news and thought leadership articles that can be published regularly
• Customize your user journeys for maximum impact
• Focus on the content and calls to action through the flexible templates and controls

Editing Features

An easy to use CMS, Umbraco enables content editors and administrators the ability to constantly evolve and improve their website:

• Preview and publish facilities allow you to see your responsive content across devices
• Using the out-of-the-box workflows for notifications and to send for approval
• Easily create, update, delete, move and copy pages or entire sections of content
• Upload and manage your hi-res media and assets easily
• Control membership and restrict pages or sections for audiences
• Through custom controls add tracking and scripts for pages or sections