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Content Management Systems (CMS), are pieces of software that are designed to assist in the creation and management of new websites. These systems help the webmaster manage resources, content types, and analytical data. Content, being a primary focus of all businesses online, plays a major role when attempting to build both your online presence and your brand. Content management systems allow you to maximise the potential of your project and provides a platform for teams to create, edit, and publish content to a website. Currently on the forefront of CMS development are Umbraco CMS and Kentico CMS, two emerging heavyweights, fighting for the championship belt. Currently, Umbraco is on top, with over 500,000 active installations, while Kentico trails very far behind with just 25,000.

As an existing Umbraco CMS user, you will undoubtedly be familiar with the user-friendly nature of the platform. Umbraco uSync is another example of a free offering from Umbraco that will help keep your sites in sync. This is a tool that is designed specifically for developers to facilitate the task of backing up site information. Let’s explore uSync in a little more detail:

In line with Umbraco values of friendliness and support, Umbraco TV provides training and support for its users with easy-to-digest, bite-sized video tutorials. At a fraction of the cost of the Umbraco training labs, Umbraco TV provides unlimited access to in-depth, how-to tutorials, providing on-demand need-to-know support for member of the Umbraco community. While some videos are free, others are only available via a nominal monthly subscription fee.

Umbraco Headless CMS was born of business’ needs to provide personalised content across multiple platforms. It enables centralised content management across all channels and gives developers much more room for innovation.

Unlike traditional models which have a backend and frontend that use the same code base and communicate directly with each other, Umbraco Headless CMS separates the two. The presentation layer has been completely removed and this solution focuses on back-end only--hence the name.