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12/23/2008 12:52 PM
 
Cort

Joined: 12/23/2008
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 My situation

I own a content-rich basic html site I'm conversting over to asp.net

My skills: quite limited; CSS, very very limited VB.NET, very light on the development end - as you can see below. 

The future website: the website is on a illness; I want to incorporate blogs/forums (social networking), news content, polls, photo's - basically build an interactive community that easily shares and communicates helpful information that I can fold into the present website. I need to be able to have someone register for the community, get access to the forums and provide data such as a review of a certain treatment that automatically shows on one of my other pages.  Eventually I hope to build a large database that includes relevant clinical information, treatment reviews and comments, etc.  

Time: I am willing to devote some time but have spent alot of time redesigning the website now and want to focus on creating more content. On the other hand I want something that will the serve the website best over the long haul. 
 
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12/23/2008 6:41 PM
 
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money? you did not specify, how much money you would like to spend for a) licences andaccording t b) people to assist you

according to your questions, IMHO DNN will be the better choice in the long run, since it is a framework and you may do anything with it, depending on your ideas and the dev skills, available to you.

In short run, CS might have an advantage to deliver more prepared stuff "out of the box" (but we are working on this as well).

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12/23/2008 8:05 PM
 
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CS is much more community oriented out of the box, with more of the functionality is seems like you are looking for provided. It is Community Server. :) All the functionality it has can be duplicated with modules in DNN, if they don't exist, they can be written.

From a newbie programmer perspective - When I was first looking for a framework, I looked at CS before DNN. It was a few years ago, so things might have changed, but I found DNN to be easier to make modules for. I still don't know how to do it for CS and I've gone back and looked around.
Same reason I didn't try to go for SiteFinity from Telerik - I don't understand how to make my things go/work/load/ect in those frameworks, DNN, was simple. I've watched examples of the other two, still don't know how. DNN, I understood how, still took some work to get it all down, but I wasn't just as baffled as when I started.
I think the developer learning curve for DNN is lower, making progress in actual development and not testing thing to learn how happen faster.

I check out other ASP frameworks to see what they offer and their ease of use about once a year. I really like DNN, but I gotta keep up on other stuff too.

 

With what you want to do, I think CS would be a better out of the box, set up and go ASAP, option. If you can do it, I think DNN will offer greater flexibility for future development of the site. CS is designed to be a community site. DNN is designed (AFAIK) to be a framework for you to build YOUR site on, whatever it may be.

 

That's all my opinion, it could be wrong. :)
 
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12/24/2008 10:49 AM
 
Cort

Joined: 12/23/2008
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 Thanks for the info. This is a one-man outfit; my start off budget peaks at about $500. The social networking stuff is an important base. Does DNN provide access to integrated blogging/forum tools? If not is one on the horizon?

Another rather basic question is does DNN 'take over' the website; that is do I have to frame the entire website in DNN templates or can I incorporate DNN into the just some pages. 

Another question revolves around the importance of using an asp.net CMS system. Since asp.net supports PHP do I gain anything by staying with CMS asp.net (other than the ability to better understand and manage the system myself). 

One last question is the importance of using one system; can I have a Forum set up by say vBulletin interact with a social network set up by someone else to populate one database. This would require being able to have one person sign into the forum and the social network at the same time and then download the same type of information to a database. This sounds pretty tricky.
 
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12/24/2008 10:56 AM
 
Cort

Joined: 12/23/2008
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 Thanks very much - particularly since you have experience with the newbie aspect - very important to me. I have some more questions.

 

The idea of writing or creating a new module, is unfortunately, something that's difficult to concieve given my level of knowledge at this point but does DNN have social networking (community blogging) tools available to it?

I have the same question as I  asked above; with regards to  functionality is it important or particularly useful to stay with an asp.net CMS system vs a PHP system? I can see how it's helpful with regard to knowledge - sticking with an learning more about one system - but is there a functional payoff for doing so? 

I know there are many different tools written for DNN: is there a rating/review system or some way to ascertain how good each  one is? 
 
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