Umbraco Installation

Steps to carry out immediately after installation:

  • Setup Media Type
    • Add a new property to the image media type, Call it Caption, make the alias altText
    • Then move it so it's immediately under the Upload image property
  • Setup Media Picker Data Type
    • Enable Show Preview
    • Enable Advanced Dialog
  • Setup the RichText Editor Data Type
    • Allow the cleanup icon
    • Create and link a related stylesheet
  • Hide the Intro/Getting Started Panels
    • You need to edit dashboard.config file. You'll need to comment out sections repeatedly. YOu might want to leave the Last Edits and Change Password sections visible
  • Setup Directory URLs
    • set umbracoUseDirectoryUrls to true in web.config

Install Packages

  • uComponents
  • Google Maps Datatype
  • imageGen
  • Media Icons
    • Plus manually copy my icons to /umbraco/images/umbraco
  • Consider OpenCalais Autotag if using tagging

Copy latest nightly for Razor support (until 4.7.1 comes out) Just the macroengines.dll

Next Steps

  • Create a uSiteBuilder Project (for docTypes)
  • Add the Umbraco Website to the project (set it to NOT be compiled (2 off)
  • Setup Build Script to copy output dlls
  • Setup dotless css, or sass-lang

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