I been doing asp.net (vb.net, c#, javascript, jquery) programming for several years now, I've always built my sites form scratch. I was starting a new project where i require different levels of users and memberships. So I decided to use umbraco 7 downloaded loved the pre-build interfaces user and member management sites. I started working around it to figure out adding custom fields and management pages but every step has become a hassle to a point i'm losing a lot of time trying to figure out and read documentation and blogs they posted. I am 2 weeks in barely made a dent on the project. Just figuring out some js stuff took a lot of time.
I was curious instead of going through a cms system I should get a prebuilt member management asp.net site template. And alter the codes as needed. Should I consider using asp.net membership provider? Or is there any open source cms system that is easier to get into without the large learning curve of the system.
