Hi there,

I'm a c# developer with 4 years experience mainly windows forms but some asp.net recently and have just discovered donetnuke.

I am creating a public facing website, that requires user registration, advertiser registration, a user dashboard to edit settings, service specific settings etc, advertiser campaign management and an admin interface for managing everything, stats that I and the admin staff will use. There will also need to be the user support, helpdesk e.g. form feeback or bugs/complaints, forum.

I recently came across an asp.net site http://www.swaptree.com/ and really like their look and feel and pretty much most of the functionallity, ajax, maps, forums, help, dynamic updates on the home page, web 2.0 look and feel,css. If I want to create something that has all the features of http://www.swaptree.com but for my product/service should I use dotnetnuke or build all from the ground up? and if I have to build all myself any hints as to what prebuilt modules or open source projects or built in asp.net technologies I should leverage to speed up development as I need to create this as soon as possible.

Thanks, Mentat