Cooking with umbraco; bi-weekly screencasts

20 February 2006 by Niels Hartvig

As soon as I get a chance to visit the basement where all the stuff from Pollas, Kasper and my previous office are kept, I'll find my old headset and start do some new screencast about umbraco.

There's a bunch of excellent reasons for this; first the current screencasts available on umbraco.org where made 1½ year ago and are outdated, full of errors and made for umbraco 2.0. As the regular reader would know, much has happened since :-)

It's the ambition to do a bi-weekly screencast lasting around 15 minutes. I'd like to let them run as a serie, so they build upon a previous screencast (but without it being 100% necessary to have seen them). Let me know what you'd like to see shown, here's a couple of ideas:

  • Installing umbraco and running the sample website (using the Website Wizard)
  • Adding a forum (/gallery/another-type-of-simple-app-using-list-galore)
  • Extending the forum with protected areas using the member system
  • Using Visual Studio and the umbraco businesslogic (API) to customize the forum even more
  • ....?

3 comment(s) for “Cooking with umbraco; bi-weekly screencasts”

  1. Rasmus Ebler Simonsen Says:
    26 February 2007I guess that you are creating a screenplay when you make these screencasts. It would be nice if you made them available on a website so that they could be found using google. The screencasts are not that easy to follow for a newbie - printout of a document with some nice screenshots would be nice.
  2. Hartvig Says:
    26 February 2007It'll probably never happen as it takes way too much time (which is the reason why these bi-weeklys never happened).

    I'm working on a new paid section on umbraco.org with screencasts, where they'll last 20-45 minutes instead of 5-7 minutes. Much more in-depth and well-worked. However not with print-outs etc. That's a HUGE work (I did it for the course which is a whole other budget).
  3. Richard Theo Says:
    13 June 2008It looks like you've done some great work with Umbraco but oh my goodness as a newbie its a disaster - there's no way to get your head around how to use it without reading a million forum posts.

    You must be losing so much potential interest from people who are scared away.

    Remember the dynamics. A person like me wants a CMS system. So we look around at the thousands of systems that are out there and we might give the interesting ones a few hours to see what they're like. In the case of Umbraco a few hours shows you nothing except that there's no documentation.

    Just write a decent getting started guide, put up one or two screencasts and tidy up the website into a decent hierarchy - 2 days work for a huge amount of benefit.

    I read all about some old screencasts but i can't find them anywhere.

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