Can I have some help with these questions please?

1. Will umbraco have conflicts with CSS, HTML or javascript or even Flash applications? The reason I ask is so that I can determine whether I will be able to install and use umbraco on my site. My site renders perfectly cross-browser and it took me ages to achieve that. My worry is that umbraco might make rendering a huge task again.

2. How straightforward is it to install existing code into umbraco?

All replies are gratefully received. Thanks, Henry

Hi Henry,

Regarding your 2nd question: Shouldn't be too difficult, the two applications can even co-exist, so there's actually no need to 'integrate' the existing apps into umbraco. Just be aware of:

- umbraco must be installed at the root, it cannot be in a subfolder of an existing app nor can it be installed in a virtual dir.
- If you install your existing app in a subfolder of umbraco, you will have to make some extra changes:
* Get rid of some settings from umbraco's web.config (Don't know by heart which one, might do a search later on because I know I've seen some posts on this before)
* Change umbracoReservedPaths in web.config to make sure the folder is ignored by umbraco

Shoot if you have more questions.

Regards,
/Dirk

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I think you have to look at it from 2 different viewpoints

1. Setting up and configuring your website, on the server
2. Creating your website with Umbraco

Regarding #1: Umbraco is actually quite easy to set up and configure, if you are experienced in setting up and configuring websites using IIS and MS SQL server. You just have create your website directory on the server, copy the installation files from codeplex to this directory, create the website in IIS using the new directory as the root folder of your directory, edit the acl's on the directory to allow the network service to modify files in certain directories, set up an empty database in SQL Server, and edit the web.config to use this DB. When that's done Umbraco will take care of the rest for you first time you visit the website.

If you don't know what all this means you're probably better of buying dedicated Umbraco website hosting. Look in the "Hosting Provider Forum" to se suggestions on which providers to use.

Regarding #2: Your css, html and javascript knowledge will be of great use. Ysing templates you will be able to create exactly the (X)HTML output you need, and maintaining css, and uploading images and javascript files to your site is very straightforward.

If you don't know XSLT, XSLT "programming", and understanding how to use XSLT+Macros to output stuff like menu lists and stuff like that will probably be were you will experience the steepest learning curve. I'll recommend you install one of the website packages available when right clicking "Macros" in the developer section. these packages comes with a number of good examples to learn from.

Regards
.Hauge

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