I maintain the website for my
kid’s school and I am sick of marking up HTML by hand. To solve this,
I pulled the latest release of Dot Net Nuke.
I haven’t seen Dot Net Nuke for a couple of years, since version 1, in fact.
I am very impressed. The version that I pulled was the latest beta for v3.0
and for everything that I have tried with it so far, seems production quality.
Setup is amazingly simple. It is as easy as setting up Community
Server, as both products provide web based installers. These products
don’t seem to be competing to me at all as I have heard others say. DNN is a
portal framework, plain and simple. And from what I have seen, it is a mature
one.
The number of default modules that shipped with the DNN beta version is pretty high.
There is something in there called an RSS Feed control, but I am not sure yet what
it is. I don’t see it replacing my blog
engine, though.
So the irony of the last 3 hours spent installing and configuring DNN? I
cannot find a skin in the school’s colors so I will be playing with that before
I can use the content management features.
I’ll say this, though. Setting up DNN was a heck of a lot easier to do that
SharePoint.