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+Umbraco CMS
+===========
+## Watch a five minute introduction video ##
+
+[![ScreenShot](http://umbraco.com/images/whatisumbraco.png)](http://umbraco.org/help-and-support/video-tutorials/getting-started/what-is-umbraco)
+
+## Umbraco - the simple, flexible and friendly ASP.NET CMS ##
+
+**More than 155,000 sites trust Umbraco**  
+For the first time on the Microsoft platform a free user and developer friendly cms that makes it quick and easy to create websites - or a breeze to build complex web applications. umbraco got award-winning integration capabilities and supports your ASP.NET User and Custom Controls out of the box. It's a developers dream and your users will love it too. Used by more than 110,000 active websites including [http://daviscup.com](http://daviscup.com), [http://heinz.com](http://heinz.com), [http://peugeot.com](http://peugeot.com), [http://www.hersheys.com/](http://www.hersheys.com/) and **The Official ASP.NET and IIS.NET website from Microsoft** ([http://asp.net](http://asp.net) / [http://iis.net](http://iis.net)) you can be sure that the technology is proven, stable and scales.  
+[More info at http://umbraco.org](http://umbraco.org)
+
+## Forums ##
+We have a forum running on [http://our.umbraco.org](http://our.umbraco.org). The discussions area on CodePlex will be for discussions on developing the core, and not on Umbraco-implementations or extensions in general. For those topics, please use [http://our.umbraco.org](http://our.umbraco.org).
+
+## Contribute to Umbraco ##
+
+If you want to contribute back to Umbraco you should check out our [guide to contributing](http://our.umbraco.org/contribute).
+
+## Submitting Issues ##
+
+Another way you can contribute to Umbraco is by providing issue reports, for information on how to submit an issue report refer to our [online guide for reporting issues](http://our.umbraco.org/contribute/report-an-issue-or-request-a-feature).
+
+To view existing issues please visit [http://issues.umbraco.org](http://issues.umbraco.org)