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All the basics of using Umbraco
This section shows you some beginner tools and information to get your started with Umbraco 8. From making a local installation to extending the backoffice.
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Getting Started with Umbraco

All the basics of using Umbraco. From making a local installation to extending the backend.

The newest major version of Umbraco comes with a lot of new big features, as well as a long list of general improvements to the CMS in general.

Learn more about the new features in Umbraco 8.

Umbraco Documentation

Covers how to install and configure your Umbraco installation.
What is needed to run Umbraco?
How to install Umbraco?
Setting up a Web and SQL servers for your installation.
How to upgrade your copy of Umbraco to a newer version?
Information about all of the different configuration files that control Umbraco.
Details of all the common terms and concepts that are used throughout the Umbraco backoffice.
Learn more about how to use the Log viewer in the backoffice, to view log entries.
Learn how to vary your content based on several languages.
Using the backoffice to create data.
Setting up content types, defining fields and creating your first content.
Uploading files to media library, using upload fields and image cropper.
Defining Member Types and creating members for authentication and user profiles.
Creating and editing Data Types.

Design

Create templates and views with your own markup and use Razor to render content.
Creating and managing templates.
Render the values of the current page or the result of a query against the content cache.
How to query and render media?
Working with css and JavaScript in Umbraco's templates.

Code

Understanding how logging works, and learn to setup custom logging.
Create and update entities in Umbraco from code.
Using events to modify content or run custom code.
Using the tools included with Umbraco to debug issues with your project.
Using the backoffice to create data.
Learn how to develop content apps / tools for your editors.

Tutorials

Learn how to convert your Umbraco 7 packages to Umbraco 8.
This tutorial will take you through the steps of building a basic website with Umbraco.