Umbraco Silver Partner

As an Umbraco Silver Partner agency, our team at Simon Antony is recognised as a trusted and experienced provider of Umbraco development services.

We're often called upon by other digital agencies across the country to lend our expertise in this area. Umbraco is our platform of choice for all development work, which means you can trust us to create high-quality, scalable, and flexible websites that meet your unique needs.

You can view many of the sites that we have been involved with by clicking here

Why Certified?

Why it all matters

If you're looking to build a powerful, scalable, and flexible website, Umbraco is the perfect platform for you. As an open-source CMS built on the AspNetCore framework, Umbraco provides a modular and extensible framework for building web applications.

As a team of Certified Umbraco Developers, we have the skills and expertise you need to create a website that stands out from the crowd.

But what does it mean to be a Certified Umbraco Developer? And why does it matter when it comes to building your website? Let's take a closer look.

What is a Certified Umbraco Developer?

To become a Certified Umbraco Developer, you must pass a rigorous set of exams and prove your proficiency in using Umbraco to create high-quality websites. This certification demonstrates that we have a deep understanding of the Umbraco platform and its capabilities, as well as the skills and expertise needed to build custom websites that meet the unique needs of my clients.

Why Choose a Certified Umbraco Developer?

As a Certified Umbraco Developer, we have the knowledge and experience needed to create powerful, scalable, and flexible websites using the Umbraco platform. Whether you're looking to create a simple microsite or a complex online shop, we have the skills and expertise needed to create a website that stands out from the crowd.

The Benefits of Working with a Certified Umbraco Developer

When you work with a Certified Umbraco Developer, you can be sure that you're getting the skills and expertise needed to create a website that meets your unique needs. From the initial design to the final launch, we work with you every step of the way to ensure that your website meets your goals and exceeds your expectations.

If you are looking for Umbraco development resource for new or existing Umbraco websites, large or small - feel free to get in touch to discuss availability and rates. We can offer hourly, daily or project based rates to suit your Umbraco development needs

So what does Umbraco do?

"For the first time on the Microsoft platform a free user and developer friendly cms (Content Management System) that makes it quick and easy to create websites - or a breeze to build complex web applications. Umbraco got award-winning integration capabilities and supports your custom .net code out of the box. It's a developers dream and your users will love it too. Used by more than 100,000 active websites including Heinz.com, Peugeot.com, NAIAS.com and Microsoft's documentinteropinitiative.org website you can be sure that the technology is proven, stable and scales."

So in short:

• Over 700,000 sites worldwide now running the Umbraco CMS!
• A mixture of websites (heinz.com, takethat.com, simonantony.net, avecto.com, redcrosstraining.co.uk) and intranets / internal sites utilise Umbraco to serve their users with relevant content.
• It allows the end user, i.e. you the client to easily manage your content without getting a developer involved once the site is running
• You can if you wish use Microsoft Word to publish content to your site
• You can do in browser editing or you can log into the Umbraco CMS backend and edit from there

Some cool features not mentioned above:

• It supports multi-lingual websites. Even if your original site was only written in English, it's a straight forwards process to add another language to it i.e. German for instance
• It's free, it's Open Source & it's Cloud Ready!
• The editor section is stunningly simple to use
• There is version control so you can rollback to previous versions of a page - out of the box
• You can schedule your content to appear at specific times/dates with ease - why not pre-load your site with blog articles and allow Umbraco to automatically publish them at times you set?
• It has workflow and event tracking built in - this allows for complex tasks to be easily integrated with your site
• We have user and member management built in!

Versioning

How many times have you found content being overwritten, and wished you could undo the recent changes? Well with Umbraco, it's just a simple case of right click on the page you wish to restore, select the previous content and publish it - job done, Simple, just like it should be!

Scheduling of content

Wouldn't it be nice for you to tell Umbraco when to publish your content? Well using the built in Scheduler, you can do exactly this. Set a time/date when you save your content and when the time comes, Umbraco will automatically publish your content for you.

Hey we could even ask it to email you when this happens so you know!

Simple and Efficient.

Umbraco Community - link http://our.umbraco.org

The Umbraco community is immense and just a hive of buzzing activity. One of the benefits this gives clients is a continuous innovation this brings along with the collective knowledge base which is expanding all the time. No matter what the problem, there is always a solution that can be bolted onto Umbraco to provide the functionality the client needs.

Umbraco Marketplace - link https://marketplace.umbraco.com/

Umbraco Packages (or modules to others) are simply bolt on goodies of pre-written logic and code that provide specific functionality. Here are a selection of some key Umbraco Packages:

• Dynamics 365 integration
• Hubspot integration
• SEO
• Image manipulation
• Complete site starter kits
• Text searches
• Workflow Managers
• Secure file downloads
• Synchronisation utilities
• Blog Engines
• X and Facebook integration
• + many many more

Summary

As you can see, with Umbraco, you get a lot of bang for your buck. Interested in finding out more? Speak to Simon Antony to see how we can help your website visions become a reality.