Hi,

I am about to decide if i switch from my asp.net webform website to DNN CE.
It would be cool to get some input from experienced DNN admins/developers/users.

The URL of my website is www*finanzen-portal*net. Its a german website about finance stuff.

What I have developed so far:
- Q&A system as you can see on the front page (I need to write my own Q&A module for DNN since the existing one here http://dnnqanda.codeplex.com/ doesn't fit my needs)
- I can publish articles (how can I let users publish articles with DNN? do i need an extra module?)
- each content (q&a or articles) can be tagged. users can search for specific tags (i think this works out of the box with DNN)
- I can inject usercontrols directly into my content. If i write "[usercontrol1]" in my Question, Answer or Article it will be replaced by the actual user control. (I think I have to write my own DNN module for that)

Why do I want to change to DNN?
- Better overall content management
- I want to publish articles with a nice WYSIWYG editor.
- A alot of my content is indexed by google but not showing in the first pages of google search results. I hope that DNN offers better search engine optimizations out of the box than my approaches.
- Support for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.
- I like the idea of having a CMS for the basic features and extend it by your own modules. but to be honest I haven't even started a single module so far. don't know how hard it is.

What prevents me switching to DNN?
- It was a lot of work to build my website and I have to rewrite the most of the code to DNN modules. At this point I don't know if it is worth all the effort.

Thank you
Christoph

Depending on how you have coded your current site elements - it is likely that it would not be a major job to portal those elements to dnn modules.

DNN modules are really just a  usercontrol on steroids with a dnn wrapper to exposed elements of the dnn core to the usercontrol and its children.

All dnn modules themselves are also consumers of usercontrols - including the asp:net core ones, dnn:wrappers which extend many of the asp:net core controls - and the most powerful ones being pretty much a full set of wrappers for the telerik asp.net ajax control collection.   This means your modules can include a telerik radgrid or ajax wrapper at no extra cost - with the only exception that you need to do the coding manually.

Westa

A good thing to remember as well, with switching to DotNetNuke you will be going to a platform that is getting constantly updated ans ungraded. So you will not have to worry about do that with your own code. Plus, the module community is very quick to get in line with the latest updates to the core, so you can really save some time and effort. 

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