The real advantages of Umbraco CMS for modern websites

Choosing the right CMS

A CMS (Content Management System) makes creating and managing the content on your website simple. On top of that, a really good CMS will be packed full of features that make your life easier and empower you to work better.

At Yoyo, we recommend using Umbraco CMS. It’s a modern, secure and flexible system with an intuitive interface designed specifically for content editors. And the best part? As it’s open-source, it’s completely free of licensing fees.

 

What are the advantages of Umbraco CMS?

 

Limitless Creativity

Arguably the most important feature of your website is that it allows your brand to shine through. Whilst some website builders and CMS products limit your creativity by enforcing generic themes, Umbraco CMS allows for a pixel-perfect implementation of your brand. This means brand guidelines dictate the site, not the other way around. Put simply, if you can design it, Umbraco can build it.

Want to see examples? Check out some of the work that we’re proudest of.

 

The Editor-first Experience

Umbraco is known as “the friendly CMS” (seriously - try searching for that in your favourite search engine). It’s designed from the ground up to be intuitive and easy to use for your content editors. It sports a clutter-free interface which shows your editors only what they need to see with no annoying distractions.

On top of that are features like:

• Scheduled publishing: Easily set content to go live or expire at specific dates/times

• Rollback & History: Made a mistake? You can roll back to a previous version of any page with two clicks.

• Multi-Language Support: one piece of content can have multiple different language variants

 

Flexibility

When choosing a CMS, it can be tempting to choose one that offers a one-size-fits-all approach. However, in practice these products can quickly feel constraining: instead of the CMS supporting your team’s workflow, you now find yourself forced to adapt to how it wants you to work instead.

Umbraco CMS, on the other hand, is highly flexible. Instead of coming pre-loaded with rigid page templates, Umbraco allows you to define your own from scratch. Your development team - or Yoyo - can build bespoke templates that work exactly the way you want.

 

Only pay for what you use

As I mentioned at the start of this article, since Umbraco CMS is open-source it’s completely free of licensing fees. So you get to spend your budget on what really matters instead and benefit from a stronger ROI (return on investment).

If you’d like to add to it, then Umbraco HQ offer official add-ons through their own marketplace - such as a professional commerce platform and forms - with tier-based pricing so that you only pay for what you actually need.

Have your own tools that you want to add to Umbraco? No problem. Umbraco CMS allows you to integrate seamlessly with the products you already use, such as Single Sign-On (SSO) to allow you to securely and quickly login with the same credentials that you use for everything else.

 

Enterprise-grade security

Umbraco CMS is built on top of Microsoft’s robust .NET Framework and is secure by design. Umbraco HQ share the the results of their third-party security testing on their website for all to see - https://umbraco.com/trust-center/security-and-umbraco/

 

Ready to learn more?

If you’re interested in learning more about why we think Umbraco CMS is the best platform for you, why not check the services we have to offer or get in touch with us.