This is a whole new area on this site, which is why you won't find many (if any!) answers yet.
However - please ask a question and we'll post it here as soon as it's answered. Just as a disclamer, we'll only answer simple general questions. For support, please look at our offers for professional services!
- What does the "backend" look like? Is there screen shots or a demo of the editing process?
We definately need to get some screenshots up on this site, but until then you can see some in this review of v2.1.6. We're on v3 now, but the UI is still the same (however most of the things pointed out in the review has been sorted :-)).
- Which features does Umbraco have regarding search enginge optimization?
With umbraco you have full control over the output, meaning that you can optimize your pages for SEO in any way you fancy. You can also add any properties to your page definitions (in umbraco called Document Types), which means that there's no limitations for meta data, etc.
Urls in umbraco are by default "friendly" meaning that they describe the page you're visiting - like this page you're previewing "umbraco.org/faq" - instead of passing id's which some systems prefer. You can even create shortcut urls which is great for campaigns, so instead of http://umbraco.org/products/umbraco-pro/feature-matrix, we could use http://umbraco.org/pro-matrix.
In other words - umbraco might be a SEO oriented developers best friend!
- Does Umbraco support SOAP or REST? or any other API?
Yes, it does. As umbraco supports .NET 100%, you can use any type of SOAP/Webservices you fancy.
umbraco also comes with “umbraco base” which is a proxy for calling .net classes via http (very handy for AJAX/JS) see:
- Does the backendpart work on a mac?
Yes, indeed. This reply is written in Safari on a MacBook Pro in OS X Leopard:
- Where can one download additional packages such as the blog package?
The package repository is a good start - it contains packages that are approved by the Package Repository Group. You can access the package repository directly in umbraco by right clicking the "Macros" node in the developer section and choose "Import package".
The Package Repository Group is still (by November 2007) working on collecting and getting documentation for the many packages that are spread across blogs and the forum and are expecting that the Repository will be more complete by Q1 2008.
- Is it possible to categorize or tag content that is created in Umbraco?
Yes. umbraco MVP Per "objects.dk" Ploug Hansen have made a brilliant free add-on which makes tagging super easy, scalable and very AJAXified:
http://objects.dk/2007/11/2/umbraco-tagging-package.aspx
- Does Umbraco support multilingual output via resx files?
Yes, umbraco supports setting culture information on the different nodes and umbraco will automatically send the correct culture information to your .NET controls used in templates. This way you can work with resx files in the exact same way as you're used to and if you have legacy controls they'll even work out of the box.
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