There are two key elements that make DNN sites so powerful; Modules and Skins.
Skins
Whilst not the most attractive of terms, skinning allows the DNN system to be customised completely to meet your organisation’s own branding. Further benefits include:
- The ability to change or update the look and feel of your site completely - without affecting the content.
- Reduced time-to-market as content and design can be prepared and implemented concurrently
Skins can bought off the shelf for very reasonable prices, but you're more likely to want a skin that directly reflects your company's branding or corporate image. In this case, Chord9 will take your design brief and develop a skin that meets your specific requirements. We are happy to work directly with your in-house graphic designers if required.
Modules
Websites built using DNN can take advantage of an extensive range of functional building blocks. These facilities are provided via a number of powerful core modules, and an even higher number of 3rd party modules that you can include on your web pages as required.
The list of core modules includes:
- Announcements / Articles
- Banners
- Contacts
- Discussion forums
- Documents
- Events
- FAQs
- Feedback /Contact forms
- Images
- Links
- News Feeds (RSS)
- Searches
- Survey /Web polls
- Text/HTML
- Users Online
The list doesn't stop there. Hundreds of further modules are available from commercial developers or the large open source developer community. Using a combination of core and 3rd party modules your web functionality can be easily and cost effectively extended to include e-commerce systems, photo galleries, blogs, forums, wiki, News systems, twitter feed and social networking capabilities.
Click here for some of the most recent releases.