Introduction for Developers

Better CMS is a publishing-focused and developer-friendly .NET Open Source CMS developed by Devbridge Group.

Why Should I Use It?

If you are a web developer working on ASP.NET MVC website and:

• and you're looking for an easily extendable, lightweight, and intuitive platform;
• and you're not willing to compromise flexibility of design and UX;
• and you want images and files to be stored on FTP / AmazonS3 / Windows Azure;
• and you're looking for an easy way to manage SEO;
• and you need role management for content editing;

Where to find it?

Latest builds of Better CMS can be found at http://nuget.org/packages/BetterCMS/

Which browsers are supported?

Better CMS supports all mainstream browsers:

• Chrome (13+)
• Firefox (11+)
• IE (9+)
• Opera (15+)
• Safari (5.1+)

What about server side requirements?

Software requirements to run the website with Better CMS:

• Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 or later
• Microsoft .NET Framework 4 and higher
• Microsoft ASP.NET MVC 4 and higher
• One of the following databases (multiple db schemas are required):
  • Microsoft SQL Azure
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2005 or later

Technically it is possible to support PostgreSQL 8.2 or later and Oracle9i or later but currently not tested.

Where to start?

Best way to start using - check out this intro article.