We're still working on the various help messages in the installation. If you're interested in helping creating a great online help for umbraco, consider joining the "Community Help Group".

Until they're ready here's a list of resources that might help you move on:

Official umbraco resources:

  • The official umbraco website - umbraco.org
    You're right here, but do you know about all the gems? The book section is full of neat inspiration to get you started and open eyes for special umbraco functionality like the integration of the Metablog Apis or "umbraco Base" for accessing .net classes via a simple url.
  • The Our Umbraco Community Site - our.umbraco.org
    The most friendly forum in the world :-) With more than 10.000 posts and answers and traffic increase up from 2.500 visitors to 26.000 visitors in a year, it clearly shows that umbraco is getting more and more popular.
  • The Package Repository
    The collection of all community packages approved by the Package Repository Group. Available both within and outside the umbraco interface
  • Codeplex.com/umbraco
    The one-stop site for getting the umbraco source, submitting ideas and issues and asking core-related questions in discussions.

Semi-official resources:

  • umbraco community search
    A brilliant custom google search engine that indexes all umbraco related site, both unofficial and official. Instant access to more than 25 umbraco related resources including various umbraco related blogs.
    umbraco wiki
    Contains a good bunch of tricks and documentation collected by the community.

Great blogs:

  • Umbraco Playground of Tim Geyssens
    Tim has a great blog focused on Umbraco. He has recently become the latest Umbraco employee, you will find some great articles on his site.
  • Work in progress

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