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Introducing "DotNetNuke", Content Management System built on Microsoft's DotNet technology. Don't be scared by the name, DotNetNuke (DNN) is a user friendly product that allows the average user to have control over a great deal of the content and appearance. Built on Microsoft technology, but released as an open-source (free) product, it benefits from the colaborative and communal nature of the open-source community | In fact, the TaylorSoftDev.com website is built on DotNetNuke technology. With a user community of over 200,000 and growing, and the firm support of countless programmers, developers and web designers, it provides a solid platform for commerical websites, corporate intra/extranets, portals and non-profit websites.
DotNetNuke gives you many tools and features to create a full-featured website, witout having to aquire additional software to add those features. Right "out of the box", DotNetNuke gives you quite a few features, seen below:
- Discussion Forums (message boards)
- Blogs
- Shopping Cart / E-Commerce application
- User Accounts and Registration
- Newsletters
- Website Searching
- Event Calendars
- FAQs
- Banner Advertisement Management
- Much more... (see more modules)
Compare using a DotNetNuke website versus having to build your own from scratch.
| Without DotNetNuke |
With DotNetNuke |
| For a business to maintain the content of a website, knowledge of HTML and/or a web programming language is required. |
With DotNetNuke, users can add/edit the content of their website just by logging into the website, picking a page to edit, and using a built in "editor" that makes creating the content as simple as writing a Word document. |
| Areas of the website that are common to all pages (the header, footer, navigation links, etc) must be duplicated on all pages. If a change is needed, every page must be edited. |
DotNetNuke is what is known as "skinnable". Changes to common areas, and even the general look-and-feel (colors, fonts, etc) can be changed once, and the effect is seen on every page immediately. |
| Often requires contacting a web developer to make content changes, which puts you at the mercy of their schedule. |
Because making changes to the content is simple enough for even the most non-technical person, you can keep your website fresh and up-to-date at all times yourself. |
| If you require a new feature to your website, you must contact a web programmer to develop this feature. |
With DotNetNuke, it's open-source nature means that there are a lot of "modules" already available (many free) that achieve a lot of the common features that websites often want to use to enhance their website. And more modules are being developed every day. Of course, if you need something very specific to be developed for your website, nothing about choosing DotNetNuke prevents you from having a web developer do this for you. You get the best of both worlds. |
Contact us to see how DotNetNuke can put the power back in your hands!
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