1. Have you discovered that within months your
website becomes out of date and becomes a
headache to maintain? DotNetNuke is the
answer to your problems.
web hosting
2. DotNetNuke® Overview DotNetNuke® is a portal content management
system (CMS) ideal for creating any type of website from commercial web
sites, corporate intranets and extranets, online publishing portals, to a personal
blog DotNetNuke® is provided free, as open-source software It allows
individuals to do whatever they wish with the application framework, both
commercially and non-commercially
3. The Static Website Problem So youÂ’ve created your static website using
Dreamweaver, Frontpage, or programmed it manually in HTML? Your next job
is to promote your website and keep it up to date with lots of fresh content that
the Search Engines love You soon discover that keeping your website up to
date with the latest news and articles is a lot of work, within a few months your
website becomes out of date and the site becomes a complete headache to
maintain CMS – The Benefits Using the DotNetNuke® Content
Management system enables you to: Login to your website from anywhere in
the world and update your content live Quickly and easily publish articles,
images, documents, news, important information and more Save Money –
Lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) you no longer need to pay a webmaster
to maintain your site Support for an unlimited number of content contributors
(ie
4. Give permission to members of staff to login and update certain sections of
your website) Easily change the look of your entire web site with just one click
using skins Extremely extensible admin interface to add and move content,
panels and more Security - Every element of your website can have specific
security settings applied to allow or deny users from seeing, editing, or
administering the different parts of your site Once you have used
DotNetNuke®, you will not look back - your old web design programmes will
gather dust! What do you need for DotNetNuke®? To run DotNetNuke®
you need to use a web hosting package that provides ASP NET and a
Microsoft SQL-Server database
5. The DotNetNuke® Community An advantage with DotNetNuke® being
open-source software is the vast number of users out there There are many
developers contributing in the form of improving the DotNetNuke® core code
and ‘modules’ which provide extra functions to your website, such as photo
galleries There are designers creating ‘skins’ which you can use to change
the graphics of your website, and there is also a central forum area where you
can ask DotNetNuke® related questions
6. This community is rapidly growing by the day and it demonstrates how
DotNetNuke® is the web of the future Where do you get DotNetNuke®?
You can download the DotNetNuke® code for free from: simply register with
the website to gain access to the downloads How do I learn DotNetNuke®?
There are many resources out there supplying documentation, videos and tips
from installation and programming, to web design using DotNetNuke®
7. You do not need to be a programmer to use DotNetNuke®; the hardest
stage is installing DotNetNuke® This is just a matter of uploading the correct
files to your hosting provider and setting up your SQL database
8. DotNetNuke® will then web hosting automatically install when you open your
website All you now have to do is add the content! Beginner Resources To
see the functions of DotNetNuke® in action, there are two free beginners’
guides available from DNN Creative Magazine: An Introduction to the
principles of DotNetNuke® and DotNetNuke® Quick Start Guide Video
(25mins)
