New builds
Document types, compositions and block-based layouts designed around how your editors work. Clean templates, sensible caching, and a structure that still makes sense after 200 pages.
Umbraco development
Umbraco is our specialty. We've built a lot of it.
New sites, upgrades, headless front ends and long-term support. A large part of our work over the past 15 years has been Umbraco, much of it for agencies whose clients never knew we existed.
What we do with Umbraco
From a blank solution to year five of support.
Upgrades
Umbraco 7 and 8 run on the old .NET Framework and no longer get security fixes. We move sites to current versions on modern .NET, including the content, the custom code and the packages that don't exist anymore.
Headless Umbraco
Umbraco as the CMS, Next.js as the front end. Editors keep the back office they know, and the public site gets the speed and flexibility of React.
Support and hosting setups
Updates, fixes, performance work and deployment pipelines for Umbraco sites, ours or someone else's.
Back office for editors
Clear names, help text, sensible defaults, previews that work. The goal is that marketing publishes a page without opening a ticket.
Upgrades
Still on Umbraco 7 or 8?
Many sites in this position still work. The problem is what's under it: an unsupported framework, packages that were abandoned, and no security patches.
An upgrade from these versions is closer to a rebuild of the code than a version bump. Content and media come across. Custom code, property editors and templates get rewritten for the new platform. We plan it so the old site stays live until the new one is ready, and URLs keep working so you don't lose search traffic.
What we need from you to quote: access to the code, a copy of the database, and a list of what the site has to do.
Plan an upgradeCurrent Umbraco on .NET
- ✓ supported
- ✓ faster
- ✓ patched
Umbraco 8 on .NET Framework
- supported
- faster
- patched
Why Umbraco
Why we keep recommending it.
Umbraco is open source, runs on .NET, and gives developers full control of the markup. Editors get a back office that's easier to learn than most enterprise CMSs. No license fee for the core CMS, and a large ecosystem behind it.
It's a good fit for organizations that already run Microsoft infrastructure, need more structure than WordPress offers, or want an enterprise-grade CMS without an enterprise license.
Umbraco suits some projects better than others. If a simpler tool fits yours, we'll say so.
How an Umbraco project goes
Look at what exists.
Current site, content, integrations, hosting. For upgrades, we review the code before we quote.
Model the content.
We agree on document types and blocks with the people who will edit the site.
Build in small pieces.
You get a staging site early and see progress every week.
Move content and go live.
Redirects, testing, a planned launch window.
Support.
Updates and changes after launch, from the same team.
Tell us which version you're on.
New build, upgrade or a site nobody has touched in a while. Tell us what's bothering you, and we'll tell you what it takes.
Umbraco and the Umbraco logo are trademarks of Umbraco A/S. MexDevs is an independent agency and not part of Umbraco A/S.