Building a website with DotNetNuke (DNN)
DNN can be viewed as a content management system (CMS) or a web application framework. Generally though, its easier just to view it as a great way to build and maintain your own high functionality website with full content management facilities - for a modest outlay.
There are two key elements that make DNN sites so powerful; Modules and Skins.
Skins
Not the most attractive of terms, but what it means to you, the end user is:
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The look and feel of your site can be updated or changed completely, without affecting the content.
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While you prepare your content, we can prepare the look and feel, reducing time to market for your website. |
DotNetNuke has a skinning architecture which provides a clear separation between design and content. Skins consist of basic HTML files with placeholders for content, menus and other functionality, along with support files such as images, stylesheets and Javascript.
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 a wide range of functionality. These facilites are provided via a number of powerful core modules that you can include on your web pages as required. The list 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 either. Further modules are available from proprietary commercial developers or the large open source developer community. Thus your web functionality can be easily and cost effectively extended to include e-commerce systems, photo galleries, blogs, forums, wiki, News admin. systems and mailing list options.
Contact Chord9 today to explore how we can help you.
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