Hi everyone.

Please bear with me because I'm new to DNN.  So far what I've achieved with it is amazing and I'm really impressed.

As a general question though, I'm building a site which will have a page allowing users to search for products via a number of dropdowns.  A list of products would then be displayed which users could click through to a page showing of detail on the product from where they might also be able to download a specification document or similar.  The products would be stored in a SQL table and authorised users would need to be able to maintain them etc.

They would not be able to buy the product through the site, so it isn't a full ecommerce app. I'm looking for.

How do I best achieve the above in DNN?

Is there a module anyone would recommend that could achieve the above or do I have to build my own module (I'm a fairly experienced ASP .Net developer - not very, just fairly!)? 

If I do build my own module, can I just write an ASCX control which I then include in the DNN page?

Or should I write ASPX pages for the task and run them through an iFrame in a DNN page?

Any (and I mean any!) advice would be very gladly received

James ; a few questions there, I'll try to answer some.

1) how do I best achieve browsing ecommerce?

Put down the code editor and get a third party product.  It's not as fun but will save you a man-year in effort.  For a browsable catalog using Catalook , take a look at http://dnnskins.com - this is an example of an e-commerce app setup for 'free' purchase.  It can also be setup with no add-to-cart and checkout if you just want a product catalog.  Property Agent has also been mentioned : this would also be a good starting point.

2) If you do want to build your own modules, you do it by creating modules, which are really just a collection of ascx files and some logic.  However, there is a process to it, there are plenty of tutorials around on how to best achieve your desired outcome.

3) build in aspx and show in iframe : no, very bad idea.  You'll have a dog of a time trying to integrate it properly and it will never work as it should do.