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When developing a new website or making a major amendment to a site, a key decision that needs to be made is which version of Umbraco to use.  While this is a technical decision, we think that this has to be a business made by the client. Now more than ever this is a complex decision.  Just this week we’ve seen Umbraco Partners on the horns of a dilemma – they started a project a year ago on Umbraco 8, and now the site is ready to launch the client is asking why it is not on Umbraco 9.  With…

The start of October saw the release of Umbraco 8.8 offering both developers and content editors improved accessibility with a host of new features and developments. Here we take a look at what you can expect from the latest version.  Cropping images to the Grid Umbraco 8.7 introduced a game changer with the Block List Editor - a new tool for editing flexible grid-based layouts now commonplace in modern responsive design. Version 8.8 builds on this by using the Grid Media Picker but with added functionality allowing cropping and previewing of images directly in Grid Layouts. This means that Content…

Today saw the production release of a significant new version of Umbraco CMS.  Umbraco 8.7 releases a number of much anticipated new features for the .NET based CMS, including a new Block List Editor, segmentation of content as well as many performance improvements and bug fixes. Block List Editor The Block List Editor is a new tool for editing flexible grid-based layouts which are now commonplace in modern responsive design.  Whereas in earlier versions of Umbraco we have used a number of external packages, including Stacked Content and DocType Grid Editor, it is now possible for us to design editing…

With the advent of Umbraco 8.1.0 it is now possible to upgrade a site from a previous version to Umbraco 8.  However, this is by no means an automated process. The new upgrade feature in 8.1.0 works similarly to previous Umbraco upgrades - they upgrade content stored in the database, but don’t provide provision to upgrade custom code written in Templates, Partial Views or Controllers. Umbraco 8 is a substantial breaking change from Umbraco 7, and so the effort needed to upgrade an existing site shouldn’t be underestimated.  Critically the code used by Umbraco Developers to create Templates, Partials and…