Creating a Basic Website
A guide to creating a Basic Website using Umbraco
This tutorial was last tested on Umbraco 10.0.0+
Introduction
This tutorial will take you step by step through an Umbraco website build. It will allow you to take any website "template" (e.g. flat HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) and install it into a fresh Umbraco site and wire up the sections that need content managing by Umbraco.
We will avoid using any starter kits in this tutorial. Although these are extremely useful, they won’t provide you with an understanding of the basics of Umbraco, such as Document Types and Templates and how these work together to build pages.
It is recommended that you work through the subsections in the following order.
To follow this tutorial please work through this section first.
How to create Document Types and what they do.
How to create your first template and create a content node.
Adding the CSS and JavaScript for your site into Umbraco.
How to wire the Document Type Properties (Umbraco Data Fields) into the templates to output the editor's data in the right place.
How to create a Master Template and use this to create more pages whilst minimising duplicate HTML code from your flat source files.
Part 2 - using the Master template to create new page types.
A solution for the template in the menu.
How to have a parent page that lists and links to child nodes automatically (e.g. an article list page containing a flexible/infinite number of articles - useful for Blogs or News pages).
At this point we have a basic site, but wouldn't it be cool if we could make the same site in another language? Read on to see how to get started with Language Variants!
By this point you'll have a basic working site - but where to next? You've barely scratched the surface of the power of Umbraco - a few links to send you on your way!
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