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website becomes out of date and becomes a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.
dedicated server
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 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
3. 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becomes out of date and the site becomes a complete headache to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 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
4. 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 The DotNetNuke®
Community An advantage with DotNetNuke® being open-source
software is the vast number of users out there
5. 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 This community is rapidly growing by the day and it
demonstrates how DotNetNuke® is the web of the future
6. 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®
dedicated server You do not need to be a programmer to use
DotNetNuke®; the hardest stage is installing DotNetNuke®
7. This is just a matter of uploading the correct files to your hosting provider
and setting up your SQL database DotNetNuke® will then 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 beginnersÂ’ guides available from DNN
Creative Magazine: An Introduction to the principles of DotNetNuke®
and DotNetNuke® Quick Start Guide Video (25mins)
