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Utilizing Umbraco Starter Kits
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If you’ve opted to skip installing a starter kit and want to dive right in, it is best
to start by creating a simple document type, template, and content structure to
familiarize yourself with Umbraco’s structure. Read on in this book for more on
how to use Umbraco to create and manage your content. Remember though: the
strongest recommendation for new Umbraco users is to install a starter kit and
skin when installing Umbraco. Installing and investigating any of the starter kits
gives you an overview of how you might structure your own site.
The following sections discuss the various starter kits in detail.
Simple Starter Kit
The Simple starter kit is the simplest and most semantically strict starter kit. It has a generic struc-
ture and is the prerequisite for many modules and other Umbraco packages. If you are new to web
CMS, and Umbraco in particular, you should begin with this starter kit.
The Simple starter kit contains a home page and several subpages along with a navigation
module. The Simple starter kit is intentionally missing styling and images in order to focus on the
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