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Umbraco Fundamentals

Get ready for Umbraco Fundamentals.

New: working on a Cloud Umbraco instance

We will assign an Umbraco site to you on Umbraco Cloud that you can use during the training to work on all the assignments.

You will receive an invite by mail to a website project from umbraco.io - ensure you join and have access to the site before training begins - you can work locally on your own machine, by git cloning the Umbraco Cloud website

The old way...

If you prefer a local installation of Umbraco that you can use during the course you can still do it the 'old' way by following these steps.

You do not need Visual Studio for this course, only a working installation of Umbraco and a modern browser.

There are a number of ways to install Umbraco but for most students the easiest way to install Umbraco locally is to use the free Microsoft WebMatrix application. Highly recommended. Here's how to do it...

  1. Install WebMatrix from http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=286266. Any other pre-requisite software will also be downloaded and installed for you if you don't already have it. 
  2. Download the latest release file (zip) from the Umbraco site: https://our.umbraco.org/contribute/releases/ 
  3. Right-click the downloaded .zip file and choose Properties. In the Security section, click the Unblock button and then click Apply 
  4. Extract the zip file to a folder 
  5. Right-click the folder and choose Open as a website with Microsoft WebMatrix 
  6. When WebMatrix launches, click the Run icon on the WebMatrix toolbar to open up your local Umbraco site in your browser. 
  7. Complete the Umbraco installation: 
    1. Enter your Name, Email, and Password. Be sure you can remember the email and password, you'll need these to login to Umbraco 
    2. Click the Customize link 
    3. Select the SQL CE Database type and click Continue 
    4. Click the No thanks, I do not want to install a starter website link 
  8. You are ready for the training! You now have a fresh and empty Umbraco site running on your laptop. 

Remember, do NOT install a starter site. We want a clean and empty site for the course. If you'd like to play with Umbraco before the course please install a second copy of Umbraco.

Please note that Umbraco 7 makes use of many modern technologies. In order to run Umbraco 7 the computer you bring to the course will need to have the following:

  • Windows 7 (or newer) 
  • WebMatrix 3 
  • .NET Framework 4.5 
  • A modern browser with proper html 5 support (these include Chrome, Firefox, IE10+)