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Should I use Umbraco for this?

I have a requirement to set up a website that allows users, user forums, forums, and flexible enough to add other features through .net. I am going to evaluate Umbraco, but for another website that is explicitly viewing the CMS mall, however the above project needs faster processing.

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Umbraco supports users, as well as backend users with various editing and publishing permissions. There are a couple of blog posts and comments for backend users. Umbraco v4 also has Canvas (in-place editing on a website).

It also supports membership, which is the "members" of the website. You can provide blogs for these “members” using an extension such as Doc2Form.

Umbraco v4 now uses standard .NET access controls, so it's pretty easy to set up membership and registration.

For a forum, Umbraco usually mates with the YAF. There is an article on how to do this at http://www.createsoft.co.uk/blog/

This article describes how to integrate YAF as a .NET control in Umbraco. If you use membership for other purposes, the forum will use a separate username and password for the membership ID. You should ask the Umbraco forum for information on how to get around this (this was done)

Easy to use or develop .Net controls in Umbraco. YAF and Doc2Form are two examples mentioned here.

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Umbraco is great for programmers, although (IMO) is not so much for people who are less technically minded. It handles all the things you described, although, in my experience, the relative lack of documentation makes it difficult to work with users / groups and permissions (these are users and groups of sites, not the actual Umbraco application).

Otherwise, I found Umbraco great for any type of site, and this is my CMS of choice.

NOTE. The last time I used Umbraco was about a year ago, so now there can be many more documents.

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Umbraco - the brilliant CMS - is my personal favorite. It may overload a bit at first (especially if you don't like XSLT), but it is so flexible and can do something!

  • Umbraco has built a membership system that is very easy to use and you can also use custom .net membership providers.
  • Blog4Umbraco is an excellent Umbraco blog package (do not use Doc2Form!).
  • While YAF is good, there is a new forum package for Umnbraco called uForum - it actually operates OurUmbraco Forum .
  • Umbraco can easily extend .NET or XSLT Controls (it has a full API).
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For training, umbraco.tv was great. Its worth a month or two subscription, at least for quick acceleration.

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use a simple form package or nforum package for similar requirements. Here is a simple form link where u can download this package

http://our.umbraco.org/projects/developer-tools/simple-forms
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