Introduction

A couple of months ago I re-created a website in Umbraco from an existing content managed website. There was a lot of useful code behind the original website that wouldn't have been easy to implement in the Umbraco environment. So I decided to create a custom section in Umbraco to use the code present in the previous content management system and have the best of both worlds. So here a tutorial of how I created it (created my custom section in Umbraco 3, but included how to do it in Umbraco 4 for your convenience).

This tutorial is designed to give you the ability to create your own custom sections within the Umbraco Administration Panel. The tutorial is based on using Umbraco 3 and 4 using MS SQL.

Before we begin:

This tutorial requires the use of Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio and Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 either the full or express editions will work.

Contents

Part 1: Adding a blank custom section »
Part 2: Image Icons and CSS »
Part 3: Creating the tree menu (Coming Soon)
Part 4: Adding secured pages to umbraco (Coming Soon)