We're pleased to announce a brand new DotNest site that will be a massive help for Orchard newcomers: Orchard Beginner! Orchard Beginner really aims to help those who're just starting with Orchard. The site's content is still being expanded rapidly but it already gives Orchard rookies some very essential guidelines.

So what if you're a total newcomer to Orchard but want to see it in action, without having to download, install, set up anything or signing up anywhere (not even DotNest)? You can Try Orchard!

BindTuning, a well-known company of theme designers and web developers from Portugal contributed some of their themes so that they are available to DotNest users for free!

We have released two Bootstrap-based themes that are available for every DotNest site for free: Philip Senechal, the well-known Orchard theme development professional and freelancer known for his cool Boostrap-based themes provided us with updated, Orchard 1.8-compatible versions for two of his themes:

As you may know, all DotNest sites have the Combinator module enabled (and configured) by default. This module automatically bundles and minifies static resources (like stylesheets and script files) to enhance client-side performance. Now Combinator got a lot faster with a feature called resource sharing.

The Preview phase of DotNest ends today. We're very excited to take DotNest to the next level, because we really strive to provide an awesome Orchard SaaS for you!

Until now you could only theme your DotNest site by using stylesheets. But now these dark days are over! We present you the power of Liquid Markup templates!

Client-side performance matters - of course. That's why we optimized DotNest to be fast out of the box not just when work is done on the server but also on the client-side.