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3/4/2009 3:19 AM
 

Hi,

I am trying to develop a soccer website that will have lets say a "Team Players module", "Articles module", "images module" and more modules.

My question is how do I orginize my site that every team page will show the modules but only with content about the specified team. I don't understand if I can do it using UDT or should I develop my own modules for those modules I mentioned above?

Is DNN have a catalog tree where I can manage my sites content? How do I manage all of my sites content?

I saw a lot of PHP CMS that has a catalog tree where all of the sites info is centralized. Does DNN has a catalog tree like this, if not, what is the way to manage all of your sites content?

This question of how DNN sites content is orginized is bringing the dilema of should I use DNN at all?

Thank you,

Dor.

 
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3/4/2009 9:42 AM
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I would look at using any of the social networking solutions for DotNetNuke.  These might be a very good way to deal with your site.  There are social networking modules available from ActiveModules (ActiveSocial), Smart-Thinker (UserProfile, UserGroup, etc.), and Venexus.  Some additional modules might include Ventrian's News Articles module and Ultra Media Gallery from bizmodules.net.

If you think of your soccer site as having people, teams, etc., there's a very natural mapping to Users, UserProfiles, Groups, etc. 

You might also want to take a look at PokerDIY.com.  This is Rodney Joyce's site that uses the Smart-Thinker modules.  I believe that Rod developed those modules to build the site.  You'll see a lot of similarity and hopefully get some idea how to do this.

I also recall the News Articles and Ultra Media Gallery integrate nicely with the Smart-Thinker modules.  News Articles lets you assign categories to articles, so you can control which article(s) appear on the various pages, e.g. team pages.  I believe that the same can be done with UMG, but I'll leave that for your investigation.

And, let me say that just because these modules seem built for social networking, you can use the in quite a nice variety of ways.  You don't have to include features such as friend, friending, messaging, etc.  I've used the quite nicely to build employee directories where, for example, a company listing of employees maps to a department  list and, at the end, you can see a page about a specific employee.  You'd never know that was using a "social network" as the underlying mechanism.




Joe Craig
Patapsco Research Group, Ellicott City, MD
DotNetNuke Development and Services (http://patapscorg.com)
 
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3/4/2009 1:52 PM
 

Hi Joseph,

Thank you for your answer, I looked at PokerDIY.com and it really answerd my questions.

Thanks for your time.

Dor.

 
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