Hey!

I am about to dig in to DotNetNuke but need to get some answers first.

Let´s say that I will build a site about flowers. The main parts in this community will be; membership, forum, mail, personal page, article page and a special module that will allow the user to search for flowers in a database and also specefie which one thay owns.

1. The members names will ofcourse be visible in diffrent places of the site, for examepl if thay post in the fourm och if the writes and article. Is it posible to get the following extension every where on the member name:
   
   -Show if the user is online with a smal icon next to the name?
   -Show a drop down when hovering over the name where we can dicide to do diffrent actions involving the user (like mailing or going to there personal page)
   -Show how many flowers the user have to the left of the name
   
   Will this involve to modifie already existing using modules like forum? And how will this work when a new version ar available?
    
2. Is it posible to implement silverlight and jQuery in DonNetNuke? and is it harder then a regular site made from scratch?
    
3. If I install a module on my site and after 2 years this module are to be replaced wit a completely diffrent module, is it only the tables that will have to be delete from the database manually?
    
4. Say that I am using two diffrent modules from diffren venders and both of these modules contains somekind of tool(maby text editor) that works almost in the same way but do not look the same? How would I handel this ? I do want some consistency in the site.

Thanks!

Thanks!

When buildin sites I am used to build every part my self from scrath, this is good when I need to make costumizations like The one i mention in point 1. To move to a CMS system like DotNetNuke is ofcourse a big step, but I see that it could save me alot of time.

1. Probably I will have to customize every module I am using to be able to make a costumization like this. This is ofcource not impossible but it will demand that I have the souce code for the modules and ther will probably not be any updates to new version becource it will involve alot of work(to move costumizations).

But if the version I am building on works, no update should be necessary.

2. Grate!

3. Grate!

4. Ok

There is a couple of "problems that I see

A. The source code is VB.NET and ofcource I can manage this, but I always work in C# when writing new stuff. This will result in a mixed code base which is not vary professional if the site was to be sold one day.

B. The structure on the DotNetNuke solution look very simple, it is not a layered solutuion which I would have hoped for.

C. When the site become costumized there is no way to simple update the codebase, this could maby have been alot easier if the solution was some kind of layered solution.

I did not choose the DNN 5.x version becourse it simes like people hav alot of problem with this version?