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uSkinned Site Builder for Umbraco 11 is here

The multiple award-winning uSkinned Site Builder (v4) is now fully compatible with Umbraco 11.

We're delighted to announce the immediate release of uSkinned Site Builder (v4) for Umbraco version 11.

As such, uSkinned Site Builder (v4) is now a .NET 7 package for Umbraco 11 — the only Site Builder available on the market!

Here's a brief rundown of what you can expect with uSkinned Site Builder for Umbraco version 11:

An award-winning experience

The underlying code may have changed a little but you'll still get an award-winning experience with Site Builder version 4. This means that everything will be instantly familiar when you install or upgrade.

Now 100% .NET 7

uSkinned Site Builder for Umbraco 11 is now built for .NET 7. 

One of the big benefits of the latest release of the framework is that we get to inherit a very long list of performance improvements. Partner Software Engineer at Microsoft, Stephen Toub said:

TL;DR: .NET 7 is fast. Really fast. A thousand performance-impacting PRs went into runtime and core libraries this release, never mind all the improvements in ASP.NET Core and Windows Forms and Entity Framework and beyond. It’s the fastest .NET ever. If your manager asks you why your project should upgrade to .NET 7, you can say in addition to all the new functionality in the release, .NET 7 is super fast.

You can read the full scope of the performance enhancements here.

New Site Builder features

In addition to all of the NET 7 benefits, Site Builder 4 comes with some awesome new features of its own.

Color Palette presets

When you create or edit a theme design, you can now set reusable palette presets that allow you to quickly define your brand. Rather than copying each color hex code, when you define a palette preset at the top, each color will be stored and available within the color picker.

New color palette creation with uSkinned for Umbraco.

Google Fonts library update

Site Builder 4.0.0 now has 1,475 fonts available to use directly from Google.

So between our Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts integrations, there are now around 21,475 fonts available out of the box.

Get started today

With Umbraco 11, users should install directly using NuGet. You can now find uSkinned Site Builder as a package on both NuGet and Umbraco Marketplace. You can follow the steps below to get started.

Download and install Umbraco 11 with uSkinned Site Builder via NuGet

Run this snippet in the command line: 

# Ensure we have the latest Umbraco templates
dotnet new -i Umbraco.Templates

# Create solution/project
dotnet new sln --name "MySolution"
dotnet new umbraco -n "MyProject" --friendly-name "Administrator" --email "admin@example.com" --password "1234567890" --development-database-type SQLite
dotnet sln add "MyProject"

#Add Packages
dotnet add "MyProject" package uSkinnedSiteBuilder

dotnet run --project "MyProject"
#Running

You will now have uSkinned Site Builder for Umbraco 11 successfully installed and running on your local machine with an SQLite database. 

The above code snippet was generated using the Package Script Writer created by Paul Seal from Codeshare.

Upgrade from Site Builder V3 to V4

If you're already running uSkinned Site Builder 3.x for Umbraco 10.x then that's no problem at all, we've got the perfect guides to help you upgrade to the latest version.

Licensing

As with the previous versions, uSkinned Site Builder is still a licensed product. This means that to run in full you will need to purchase a domain license from our website. 

To activate your uSkinned Site Builder license, go to the uSkinned Member's Portal. Go to licenses to create and download your license, if you do not have any available licenses then you will need to purchase a license before you can get up and running.

How to buy a license

New Customers

Head over to our pricing page and choose the best plan for you. 

Existing Customers

If you are already using Site Builder then login to the uSkinned Members Portal now to download. 

Free Trial

Sign up for our no-obligation, Microsoft Azure-hosted free trial of uSkinned Site Builder. 

Host with uSkinned

Seamless hosting, Umbraco and uSkinned preinstalled, a world-class and secure platform. Experience the easiest and most affordable way to launch a uSkinned powered website. Talk to us about Hosted uSkinned Websites today.

If you have any questions, feel free to leave them in the comment section or reach out to our team at any time.

 

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About the author

Paul Daly

I am a co-founder and the Creative Lead at uSkinned. It's my responsibility to lead the design and frontend coding efforts for all of our products as well as across each team, including Marketing, Branding, Content and Support.

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