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17 July 2006

Umbraco in the UK?

Filed under: Umbraco - by Darren Ferguson @ 12:59

I was wondering how many Umbraco users we have in the UK with a view to maybe getting some kind of user group together.

If you are based on the island, then leave a comment on this post with your name, location and a little background on what you do with Umbraco, e.g. hobbyist, personal site hosting, commercial site.

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  1. Warren Buckley says:

    Gravatar of Warren BuckleyHello Darren,
    We are starting to use Umbraco as a CMS solution for our client websites.

    It would be good to see how many UK users there are.

    Warren

    17 July 2006 at 13:33:26

  2. Darren Ferguson says:

    Gravatar of Darren FergusonHi Warren, I know of two other guys Ismail and Dion, but hopefully there are a few more.

    17 July 2006 at 14:00:46

  3. Darren Ferguson says:

    Gravatar of Darren FergusonHi Warren, I know of two other guys Ismail and Dion, but hopefully there are a few more.

    17 July 2006 at 14:15:03

  4. Ismail Mayat says:

    Gravatar of Ismail MayatAs Darren mentioned I am in the UK work for IASSmarts. Couple of sites under my belt. Also got a blog where you can get some things ive already built.

    Regards

    Ismail

    17 July 2006 at 15:49:29

  5. Michael Chung says:

    Gravatar of Michael ChungHello Darren,

    We're using Umbraco for the first time on one of our projects.

    Regards,
    Michael - PHWT

    18 July 2006 at 12:48:16

  6. Jonathan Whiteside says:

    Gravatar of Jonathan WhitesideI'm working on my first 2 sites using Umbraco at the moment. All on Ismail's recommendation - and so far everything is going great!

    19 July 2006 at 14:18:31

  7. Joel Miller says:

    Gravatar of Joel MillerHi, I have built 1 commercial site using Umbraco which went live about 6 months ago, and am working on another at the moment.

    20 July 2006 at 15:09:49

  8. Stewart Twynham says:

    Gravatar of Stewart TwynhamHi Darren,

    I'm based up here in (sunny!) Manchester and am delighted with Umbraco... despite having developed using linux / CGI / perl / php for over a decade, I've been a convert to C#.net over the last few years. Other .net based CMS platforms such as DNN and Rainbow simply don't give you the 100% control over the HTML that Umbraco does.
    I'm now looking to launch Umbraco based sites for several customers where accessibility / SEO / etc are critical.

    Regards,

    Stewart

    20 July 2006 at 15:49:16

  9. Dion says:

    Gravatar of DionHi Darren

    Think this would be a great idea, this is a excellent application although the documentation is poor. The speed that you can create and update web sites is fantastic. The user interface is simple to use so even a complete novice should be able to update there site content.

    20 July 2006 at 16:27:48

  10. Mark Smith says:

    Gravatar of Mark SmithWorking & Living in Skye, Scotland. Building cool stuff for Microsoft Groove, and using Umbraco for web sites. GrooveForms being a 'practice run' for the creation of our main company web site..

    20 July 2006 at 17:26:46

  11. Paul Groves says:

    Gravatar of Paul GrovesI work for in the marketing department of a UK based software company.

    After joining the company in Dec 05 I researched CMS and foudn Umbraco.

    I rebuilt the main site with Umbraco which was launched a couple of months ago and am working on more of the group's sites.

    Think a UK Umbraco user group would be a great idea.

    21 July 2006 at 09:48:24

  12. Warren J says:

    Gravatar of Warren JHi Chaps

    We have been using umbraco for about 4 months now.

    Are implementing a couple pf sites at the moment, but have been mostly working on a flash front end set up to allow slick CMS flash sites.

    Should have our first version up in a couple of weeks.

    Love the idea of a UK user group

    21 July 2006 at 13:28:27

  13. Ryan Roberts says:

    Gravatar of Ryan RobertsI would definately be interested in a UK user group. It's a damn impressive CMS and I have far too many ideas for enchancements and plugins.

    I currently work with Ismail in Manchester but am about to naff off consulting again.

    25 July 2006 at 13:08:56

  14. Michael Falconer says:

    Gravatar of Michael FalconerI'm based in Glasgow, Scotland, and am currently developing four sites using Umbraco after experimenting with it over the past 6 months or so.

    26 July 2006 at 14:52:01

  15. George Bliss says:

    Gravatar of George BlissHi, I've just started developing our new site, with Umbraco behind it. I love it. Its quick, easy to use and setup, and nice to look at. Top marks. Umbraco will go places...

    Definitely interested in a user group. I'm based in Richmond, W London.

    GEORGE
    Increase Ltd
    44 (0)20 8099 1300

    07 August 2006 at 14:18:03

  16. George Bliss says:

    Gravatar of George BlissHi again
    Our new shiny Umbraco powered site went live a few weeks ago - I'd welcome any feedback you might have. Please feel free to have a look at http://www.increasecrm.co.uk (Hosted Microsoft CRM).

    Still v interested in helping to organise a UK user group.

    Best wishes
    George
    Increase Ltd.
    44 (0)20 8099 1300

    11 October 2006 at 22:00:42

  17. James says:

    Gravatar of JamesHi,

    Looks like I have joined the party late looking at the dates of these posts.

    I have recently downloaded Umbraco 4 and would like to tap the brain of my fellow Umbracians to help me realise the full potential of Umbraco. I have posted some specific questions on the Umbraco forum (username JTMK)that have either disappeared or not had replies so if anyone would be willing to help out please let me know.

    Ta

    05 February 2009 at 22:33:06

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