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This is a real "piece of string" question.  There are many factors that influence the cost of building a website, and the fact that the project is built using Umbraco makes little difference. Factors That May Affect the Cost of Umbraco Site  The key factors that we aim to understand during the early Discovery phase of a project are the size and complexity of the proposed website.  The complexity of functionality and volume of work have the greatest influence on project cost.   The key questions we use to understand this complexity factor are: How many types of pages will be…

The core Umbraco CMS is free to download and use for any website, it is free and Open Source. There are also many hundreds of add-on packages that have been written by the community which extend the functionality of Umbraco. Umbraco are completely committed to the Open Source model for the core Content Management System, and have always maintain that the CMS will remain free forever. This means that a large proportion of the Total Cost of Ownership of a website is substantially reduced, making it a tool well suited to business, academia and the not-for-profit sector. Alongside the free…

Umbraco is a Content Management System, a tool to make it easier for Website Editors to update and maintain their website by enabling then to change the written copy and images and video without having to understand complex programming languages. Is Umbraco Open Source? Yes. Umbraco is called Open Source software because the underlying program code is free and open for everyone to download and change.  This makes it possible for anyone to build features and fix bugs in Umbraco, which improves the safety and security of the platform immensely.  That being said, the Umbraco CMS is developed and supported…