Kooboo is better than Umbraco about multisite solution.
Both Umbraco and Kooboo are greater open source cms written by c#. If I only create one site, I'd like to use Umbraco. But if i need many site in one cms, I think Kooboo is better than Umbraco. The biggest reason is that each site in Kooboo can include many theme. The second is Kooboo can let one news published at many places easily. Umbraco can used redirect, but it's not a real way.
First of all I would suggest posting this question in another forum. This one is intended to announce meetups and gathering for umbracians in your area.
Umbraco can handle multiple websites very easily and it done quite often. The number of "themes" you have depends on how you structure your document types and templates. You can share the structure between sites or create separate ones for each website.
The news once again depends on how you structure things. You can easily feed the news from one site to the other without redirects or you can create a shared site to store the news.
I haven't worked with kooboo but do know from working with umbraco that there is quite alot that can be done with umbraco, whatever your needs.
Trying looking at the wikis under multi lingual sites to see how to run multiple websites.
Hadn't heard of Kooboo before, just watching their intro video now... looks good. My opinion is that you should try to use the appropriate tools for the job, or at least the tools that will help you get the job done - but they aren't always the same.
Personally, Umbraco has been ideal for the multi-site/multi-lingual projects that I have developed, but if Kooboo works for you... I'd say go for it!
With that said, if there are specific features in Kooboo that you believe Umbraco should have, then let the community know, (or raise a CodePlex ticket?), it may spark a developer to build an awesome package, etc.
On first question: I don't see why umbraco shouldn't be capable of having multiple 'themes', it all comes down to using different css styles imho. On question no 2, as Lee points out, umbraco can handle multisite/multilingual quite easily and even publishing news articles to different sites can be easily accomplished using the existing event model. And with that being said, yes, use the right tools for the right job and if Kooboo suits you better and works for you, go for it, but don't say it cannot be done in umbraco
1) Umbraco can easily handle multiple sites in multiple languages, recently got a site now running in 22 languages including japanese, arabic, russian, chinese all from one install and it runs like a dream.
2) Again Themes can easily be assigned, the way I've done it is to create a new datatype with seperate themes and each theme is attached to a folder in the CSS folder and each folder has a bunch of CSS files for that theme.
I mean that Kooboo's themes is isolated for each site, But Umbraco can't. If someone can let B site can't see the theme only for site A or other sites. please help me.
In Umbraco, When I create site node type, them create Site A and Site B, then, I make a template only for Site A, but Site B can use it too. I don't want Site B to see and use this template in cureent template list, who can show me the way to solve it?
To do what you're wanting I'd use the doctype inheritance capabilities of Umbraco.
First I'd create a doc type defining the page I want, then I would create a child doc type of that for each of the different themes. The child doc type has not properties on it, it's just used to define structure and templating.
It is in my opinion that Theme should be seperated from HTML/site, and can be attached to different sites. Kooboo had done this correctly.
Kooboo is specially designed for multi site solution and done in MVC. However it seems like still pretty new and with a very small community at this moment.
Kooboo is better than Umbraco about multisite solution.
Both Umbraco and Kooboo are greater open source cms written by c#. If I only create one site, I'd like to use Umbraco. But if i need many site in one cms, I think Kooboo is better than Umbraco. The biggest reason is that each site in Kooboo can include many theme. The second is Kooboo can let one news published at many places easily. Umbraco can used redirect, but it's not a real way.
I wish Umbraco team can resolve this.
Sun,
First of all I would suggest posting this question in another forum. This one is intended to announce meetups and gathering for umbracians in your area.
Umbraco can handle multiple websites very easily and it done quite often. The number of "themes" you have depends on how you structure your document types and templates. You can share the structure between sites or create separate ones for each website.
The news once again depends on how you structure things. You can easily feed the news from one site to the other without redirects or you can create a shared site to store the news.
I haven't worked with kooboo but do know from working with umbraco that there is quite alot that can be done with umbraco, whatever your needs.
Trying looking at the wikis under multi lingual sites to see how to run multiple websites.
-Chris
Hadn't heard of Kooboo before, just watching their intro video now... looks good. My opinion is that you should try to use the appropriate tools for the job, or at least the tools that will help you get the job done - but they aren't always the same.
Personally, Umbraco has been ideal for the multi-site/multi-lingual projects that I have developed, but if Kooboo works for you... I'd say go for it!
With that said, if there are specific features in Kooboo that you believe Umbraco should have, then let the community know, (or raise a CodePlex ticket?), it may spark a developer to build an awesome package, etc.
Cheers, Lee.
Moved thread to this category.
On first question: I don't see why umbraco shouldn't be capable of having multiple 'themes', it all comes down to using different css styles imho. On question no 2, as Lee points out, umbraco can handle multisite/multilingual quite easily and even publishing news articles to different sites can be easily accomplished using the existing event model. And with that being said, yes, use the right tools for the right job and if Kooboo suits you better and works for you, go for it, but don't say it cannot be done in umbraco
Cheers,
/Dirk
With Umbraco you can also have a shared content repository.
I think it comes down to whether you master Umbraco or not which means that there are many features in Umbraco we need to make more obvious.
Hi Sun,
Like the others have said:
1) Umbraco can easily handle multiple sites in multiple languages, recently got a site now running in 22 languages including japanese, arabic, russian, chinese all from one install and it runs like a dream.
2) Again Themes can easily be assigned, the way I've done it is to create a new datatype with seperate themes and each theme is attached to a folder in the CSS folder and each folder has a bunch of CSS files for that theme.
Tom
I remember playing with Kooboo, too me half an hour to figure out how to edit a page. Wasn't a good first impression :/
I mean that Kooboo's themes is isolated for each site, But Umbraco can't. If someone can let B site can't see the theme only for site A or other sites. please help me.
Mostly, I mean layout can't be isolated for each site. who can give me a way to solve it?
In Umbraco, When I create site node type, them create Site A and Site B, then, I make a template only for Site A, but Site B can use it too. I don't want Site B to see and use this template in cureent template list, who can show me the way to solve it?
To do what you're wanting I'd use the doctype inheritance capabilities of Umbraco.
First I'd create a doc type defining the page I want, then I would create a child doc type of that for each of the different themes. The child doc type has not properties on it, it's just used to define structure and templating.
Thank you slace, but I think all site must use one doctype. How to resolve it?
You can still use just 1 doc type, but you create dumb doc types which allow you to do configuration for a specific point
It is in my opinion that Theme should be seperated from HTML/site, and can be attached to different sites. Kooboo had done this correctly.
Kooboo is specially designed for multi site solution and done in MVC. However it seems like still pretty new and with a very small community at this moment.
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