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structure. A few minutes spent looking over the Homepage document type and template is time
well spent understanding the Umbraco approach to defi ning data storage and layout.
Blog Starter Kit
The Blog starter kit contains all the elements of a blog site and demonstrates the Umbraco approach
to keeping content organized in a date folder format. You can create a new blog post to see this
feature in action. After you have given your blog a name, right-click the blog site’s home page and
select Create, then select Blog Post. Notice that Umbraco creates the folders for year, month, and
day automatically.
The Blog starter kit also contains macros that list the latest blog posts on the blog site’s home page,
list the blog posts in the archive, and allow site visitors to submit comments related to a blog post.
The kit even applies a spam fi lter to submitted comments so your blog site is not inundated with
comment spam.
The Blog starter kit is a great example of how you can allow user-generated content, comments in
this case, on your site. It’s robust enough for you to install and start blogging today without any
changes required, or you can use it as the basis for a blog site you customize further.
Personal Starter Kit
The Personal starter kit is a complete site for your own personal home on the web with a summary
Homepage and subpages for more about you. The kit also includes a Gallery section where you
can feature photos or images you provide in a web-friendly gallery format. The Personal starter kit
is also a great starting place for a portfolio site as well where you might feature your own work,
whether it is photography, graphics, or poetry.
Business Starter Kit
The Business starter kit is the starting point for a business presence on the web. With the
Business starter kit as a beginning, a business can build a meaningful website in almost no time.
The Business starter kit includes a blog section, with blog comment moderation tools, a news
section, and a built-in contact form. As with all the Umbraco starter kits, you can easily add new
functionality or change the default functionality to create the Umbraco site that perfectly fi ts
your needs.
Extending the Starter Kits
The Umbraco starter kits are only a starting point. Each is licensed with the MIT open source
license, which allows you to change, add, and remove any feature, code, or layout you want. When
you combine the Umbraco starter kits with the knowledge you gain from this book, there are no
limits to what you can accomplish.
With the addition of a skin and modules, which are discussed later, creating a complete website
without writing one line of code is entirely possible. After you add in some of the advanced tech-
niques discussed later in this book, you will have the platform for building a myriad variety of
websites.
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