Umbraco is a great CMS (content management system) for creating custom websites. It's open source, free, and easy to customise using common development tools. With Phosphor's good architecture and skilled developers, Umbraco can be used to build robust and large complex sites that can also collect accurate and useable data for future use. 

We have been building medium and large websites and web applications with Umbraco for over 15 years and were excited to win the Umbraco Jury's Choice Award for 2019. There are 10 awards given each year internationally, so it's an achievement we are very proud of.

With good architecture and skilled Umbraco developers, Umbraco can be used to build robust and large complex sites integrated with ERP systems, accounting systems, and custom in-house software.

Umbraco 8, the newest version, adds more convenience, improved multi language handling, and good options for multiple sites within one Umbraco CMS.

5 reasons why we prefer to use Umbraco:

  1. Umbraco CMS is open source. This means none of us own it, so you can host it elsewhere, and take it with you if we part company. It also makes it easy for developers all over the world to make new plugins and share them.
  2. Umbraco CMS is free. What this means for the website owner is that there are NO yearly license fees, and you can host it on a wide variety of servers.
  3. Umbraco is a .NET CMS, meaning it's based on Microsoft's .NET platform. This makes it easy to integrate with Microsoft business software and databases.
  4. Umbraco let's us design they way we want to - it's NOT a set of themed templates. Whatever we design, if it's possible on the web we can make it work in Umbraco. This means we can design your website to suit your brand rather than make your brand fit within a restricted template. Separation of content and having control over the HTML allows us to be sure it complies with web standards.
  5. Umbraco is popular both globally and in New Zealand and Australia, so there is a good knowledge base and a good resource of .NET web developers who have used Umbraco. Most graduate programmers have a good understanding of .NET and can become Umbraco web developers with training and experience.

There are 502,567 active installs of Umbraco, 221,745 active members in the community,
and 1,211 known free Umbraco packages available.

We would be happy to discuss the other reasons why Umbraco is a good choice for a company wanting a robust and future proof website, and not wanting to be saddled with a proprietary CMS. 

If you just landed on this page, an introduction is in order. Phosphor is a .NET mobile and web development company based in Auckland. We are Microsoft Certified Partners with Silver competency in Web Development and Software Development. Find our more about Phosphor, or contact us for a meeting in person or via Skype.