Umbraco Level 1 Training Oct. 19-20

Umbraco Level 1 training is being offered in Seattle on Oct. 19-20! Paul Sterling, an Umbraco MVP, is teaching the course over the two-day span.

Umbraco Training - Level 1
October 19-20, 2009
Seattle Public Library
1000 Fourth Ave., Seattle, WA 98104
Register Here

Several different web developers recommended this course to me. One said, "You'll end up knowing much more about Umbraco and increase your ability to direct projects and understand when Umbraco would make a great solution to a challenge." While the course's target audience is designers and web developers, it seems to be doable (and enjoyable) for those of us who only moonlight as developers once in a blue moon or wish we could.

Umbraco - Open Source CMS

Umbraco is an open source content management system (CMS) from Denmark. I've been working with it professionally for more than two years to manage some 15 websites and white labels. The key to getting it to work for you is to assemble a good team of knowledgeable people to develop, manage, and use the CMS. The ideal team should include a developer and a content manager at minimum who share and understand a vision of how it will be used. In my case, our team included, depending on the situation: two developers, a content manager (me), an outside web design company (sometimes), and a technical illustrator. Check this CMS out at http://umbraco.org/. Have you used Umbraco before? If so, I'd love to hear the pros and cons of your experience.