Getting Started
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The Creating a Basic Site tutorial provides step-by-step instructions to build an Umbraco website using a set of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files. This tutorial enables you to use a website template, modify it, and connect the sections that require content management in the Umbraco CMS.
To begin this tutorial, you will need to download the Custom Umbraco Template. Clicking the link will automatically download the files to your device.
To download the latest version of Umbraco, refer to the Installation article. On the installation wizard, follow the steps:
Enter your Name, Email, and Password.
Click Next.
Choose the level of Consent for telemetry data for your Umbraco installation.
Click Next.
Select the Database Type from the drop-down list.
Enter the Database Name.
Click Install.
The installation will take a couple of minutes to complete.
Unzip the Custom Umbraco Template to a folder on your system. Clicking the link will automatically download the files to your device.
Open the index.html from the folder in your preferred browser to see the template.
The template contains some text with dummy links. We’re going to turn this into a fully-fledged, Umbraco-powered site!
You can log in to Umbraco in two ways:
Once the installation is complete, you will see the Login screen.
Enter the Name and Password used during the installation process. You should see a similar Umbraco Backoffice as the image below:
