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Fine grained management of Users’ permissions isn’t an exciting subject for a blog post, but for websites managed by anything more than one or two people, knowing who does what can be critical. We’ve worked on a number of websites and content management systems where Editors bemoan how locked down the system is, and as a result everyone uses the same super-user login. But with a little thought and effort, tweaking the permissions settings in Umbraco can mean that the right people can do their job with the minimum of effort, and still remain compliant with security best practice. Permission…

TL;DR Almost certainly yes. Umbraco is an Open Source Content Management System (CMS), and is free for anyone to download and use for any purpose. It's designed for use on Windows Servers and compared to other leading Windows CMS's such as Episerver, Sitecore and Kentico, which are all proprietary, meaning that a substantial saving can be made in license fees. That doesn't mean it doesn't cost money to build an Umbraco site. There are costs including hosting, development and third party plugins, but these fees are no cheaper on the proprietary platforms and so in almost all cases Umbraco will…

Umbraco is a very easy to use Content Management System. A well built and configured Umbraco website should make it super easy for Editors to make changes to their site, as well as adding new content. For those starting out on their journey with Umbraco editing journey there are plenty of resources to enable them to get started including: Umbraco Editors Guide; and Umbraco.tv. The Umbraco community is very strong and, while it's very heavily developer focused, it's incredibly helpful, and advice and guidance can be sought from the forum Our Umbraco or on the community Slack group. If you…