SC Group wrote
Greetings,
I have just installed DotNetNuke and compiled and have run it for the first time. I had a couple of initial questions that I was hoping someone who knows this software could answer.
1. I've developed a number of ASP.NET websites, but I have no idea what a portal is in the context of DotNetNuke. It took a while to set one up the first time I ran the site--what did it do?
2. Ultimately, I'm trying to determine if DotNetNuke is the right tool for a site I want to develop. This site needs A) The ability to allow users to submit articles, B) the ability for the admin to approve articles before they are published, and C) the ability to associate binary downloads with each article. Can someone give me some idea how much customization would be required for this? Unfortunately, I use C# and do not really want to start using VB in order to get the features I need.
Thanks for any tips!
q1: dnn has the ability to allow you to set up a sub portal that uses the same code base and database as the main dnn portal an example of a sub portal would be demo.domainname.com the main dnn site is on domainname.com and the sub dnn site would be demo.domainname.com - a portal using dnn definition is simple a web site thus a sub portal is a web site within the main web site..
q2: one solution to the articles is to use the Ventrian news article module - I use this for members to access and also submit articles to one of my cleint sites.
check it out at http://www.ventrian.com/Default.aspx it is not free however it is very low cost and you get all the Ventrian modules. Graphics can be uploaded into the articles as you write them using the rich text editor in the module and the module has moderator and approval rights to who ever you assign as the article administrator. This module should do exactly what you want.
The other modules that come with it are all highly usefull and of top quality - they are also well supported.
The standard DNN modules should cover the other needs you have.
Dnn is ideal for what you want and you should not have to do any programming at all to achieve your solution
The Property agent module that comes with the news article module is quite powerfull and has a lot of uses and I am sure you would find a use for it on your site.
PS: as to portals - you will probably never use or need sub portals so foreget sub portal and just remplace the term portal with web site.