1 month into choosing to go with DNN, and I finally am thinking I made the right choice.  What a great, reliable framework.  It is so refreshing to not have to take care all the mundane nuances of site programming, and just focus on moving forward with the interesting stuff.

I finally made the move from Classic ASP to .NET just as .NET 2.0 was coming out.  I ordered all the WROX books, and prepared to spend a significant amount of time on building-block type work.. but DNN has done it all for me.

So instead of pestering the crew here with questions, I'd simply like to say thanks for all the effort put into DNN, it's my new love affair and damn does it make work a lot easier.

It's Keith.

Definitely hasn't been easy, but then again i'm not even a programmer by trade; i'm a graphic designer by day and a musician by night.  Programming has just been a means to an end for me.

It is very difficult coming from a right-brained perspective to jump into .NET as it is even more formal than Classic ASP for me.  Whereas in  Classic I can just go to page X and edit the ASP and HTML content in one go because it's  all jumbled together, .NET demands a much more organized parallel structure, not to mention this wacky .DLL stuff.

The specific reason why DNN, and ASP .NET 2.0 as a whole is great for me is because it's so standardized and best-practiced, that it's a stable foundation for me to apply creative ideas onto. The jumble of spaghetti Classic ASP code has been a huge time waster for me ultimately: although easily accessible, the overall cohesion just has not existed in a mature way until .NET 2..    up till now it's been short-term accessibility at the expense of long-term manageability and flexibility.