Hi all,

I am new to the dotnet world, and new to this CMS as well. I used to build more sites with PHP/MySQL.

I recently have some ideas about opening my own business on the web. It'll be a website that provides some online services, something like myspace.com, although not exactly. The site basically needs to allow members registration, and let them enjoy our online services.

My question is, do you recommend me to build this site with DotNetNuke CMS? or do you recommend me to look up online and get some sample codes, and try to integrate them to my own application? I am really confused....I don't know which way will be better for my future company, and worth my to spend time to dig into it.

Can anybody give me some suggestions? Thank you so much..

Lucy

Hi Don,

Thank you so much for your clear suggestion.

This is very helpful for me.

Maybe I can give it a try fist, and start to learn asp.net while using this CMS as well.

Since there are so many kind people in this forum to help each other.

Maybe I can get some support when I meet problems as well.

Thank you again.

Hope to talk to you more in the forums!

:)

Lucy

I have to second what Jeff said.  When you consider what you get for the price, it's really smart to look at third party modules.  I think of it like this.  My base CMS framework is handled by the DotNetNuke platform.  Where it makes sense, I use the modules that ship with DotNetNuke, but most of the work I've done for clients has relied very heavily on third party modules to provide the structures on top of the DotNetNuke foundation.  The great advantage to this approach is that you get a level of support that goes beyond what you get for free in the forums and in many cases you get software that's being enhanced and improved at levels that exceed what an open source team can accomplish using volunteer support.