Detailed content management system specifications

Our most-chosen content management system is Umbraco, an open source solution that’s used for over 30,000 websites worldwide.

We’ve chosen this content management system because we believe that it offers an unequalled price/performance proposition.

Technology

• Based on Microsoft .NET and SQL Server technologies.
• Open source under MIT licence with full source code available
• No artificial limitations (such as a maximum number of pages, or number of website editors).
• Very fast page load times – often faster than static HTML (the entire site is held as an XML file in cache so page loads are virtually instant).
• The visual appearance of the site is controlled via Cascading Style Sheets and not by the website editors – so visual consistency is assured.
• Easy to integrate with other systems.
• Secure Web-based application.

Track record

• In use in over 30,000 websites worldwide.
• Large and quickly growing developer community.

Functionality

• Built-in facilities for RSS (newsfeeds), if required.
• Automatically updated breadcrumb trail, if required.
• Blogging facilities, if required.
• Extremely fast and accurate website search, if required.
• Maximum design freedom – no compromise on website design.
• Easy to add new functionality.
• No restrictive workflows.

Editing Web pages

• Easy-to-use Web page editor.
• Pages can be created, deleted, moved or copied.
• Pages can be scheduled to go live or be removed. 
• Media library to control all of your site’s assets – such as images, documents, audio and video files.

Very search engine friendly

• Readable, search engine friendly URLs (such as www.domain/services/service-name instead of
• Control over meta tags and search engine indexing at a page level, accompanied by auto-creation of meta tags where appropriate/possible
• Built-in automatically updated site map
• All pages can be fully indexed by all search engines