Comments on: Dot Net Nuke

By: Paul Herrmann

Paul Herrmann — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:02:09 +0000

This comment is in the context of this 1st URL, I have posted. This is my business website that is currently being redone and in the process. The 2nd is my wife and mines blogsite.I wanted the webmaster to place the DNN on the business site site for me to login and add or remove photo content as the need changes. Not having to pay a webmaster -3-4 hundred dollars , every time I want to make a change.
The webmaster has activated the DNN and I am able to login but this appears more difficult than I thought it would be !
Can someone or several people give me some advice here ?
If so, feel free to email me at phdw2@mac.com

By: Veha S.

Veha S. — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:35:49 +0000

I haven't used DNN other than as an end user; however, I wanted to recommend Joomla, if you haven't considered it already. Joomla is also open-source, but targets the Apache/Linux environment. So I'm not sure if that'll fly with your shop. But if does, here's what I've found over the last month of using Joomla. It was painless to install, but configuring and getting acquainted with it took a week or so. But once you get the hang of it, the thing is very configurable and powerful. As far as templates go, if you can design it, you can make it a template/theme for Joomla. For a good example of templates for Joomla, go to RocketTheme.com and click on Demos. I am using the Sporticus template at moolala.org, with some customization of course. Aside from that, there are lots of extensions available, with most being free and open-source. My personal favorite is OpenSEF, which makes it easy to properly SEO your site. If you ever have any questions about Joomla, shoot me an email.

By: Joshua Steimle

Joshua Steimle — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 21:18:43 +0000

I haven’t been involved on the technical end myself so I only know what the developers tell me and what I read in the tabloids, but so far we haven’t had any issues, at least none that anybody has bothered me about.

By: Kyle Follett

Kyle Follett — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 18:54:33 +0000

That’s interesting. If it’s building on a DNN framework. I had a client that wanted a design for DNN. The creative wanted a pretty cool custom looking design, development wanted it in a DNN template.

Well I’m probably not the best, but I’ve taken quite a few CSS HTML templates and integrated them into various backend systems. However I spent around a day and a half and couldn’t get this design into a DNN template.

Then turned it over to a .net developer who spent another two days trying with no luck. Well came to the point that we almost built a new CMS from scratch rather than work with DNN templates, but the project was taken internally for reasons not really related to the work we did.

I’ve seen a couple sites that look pretty custom and nice looking, I can’t imagine how look it took them to get it that way. My experience is it seems like a pretty good option if you want a standard design layout, top, 3 column layout but anything else good luck.