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CHAPTER 1 INSTALLING FOR THE FIRST TIME
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Installing a Starter Kit
Umbraco starter kits take a best practices approach to site structure. Although the rest of this book
deals with the Umbraco building blocks — document types, templates, and such — in great detail,
after Umbraco has been installed, the Umbraco starter kits give a simple example of how you should
structure a site, which is especially helpful for new Umbraco users. If you didn’t install a Starter Kit
when you installed Umbraco, don’t worry; this section details how to install a starter kit and mod-
ules to an existing Umbraco installation.
If you’ve already installed a starter kit, you made a good choice! With a starter kit installed you
have a great starting point with some basic content, templates, document types, and a macro or
two. One of the best ways to familiarize yourself with Umbraco, other than reading this book, is to
dive in and inspect the structure of the document types, the markup in the templates, and the code
in the XSLT macros. Although the included starter kit samples are quite simple, they also represent
Umbraco best practices for creating a simple site and its structure.
If you didn’t install a starter kit and have now decided you want to install one, simply access the
Install Starter Kit option from the Packages tree in the Umbraco Developer section (see Figure 1-23).
You can install skins from this section as well.
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