DotNetNuke
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- Centigrade
A client has requested we consider using this. Does anyone else have experience using it compared to other CMS's?
- Centigrade0
No love for DNN then I guess?
- 3030
If it has to be .NET try Orchad - www.orchardproject.net
- vaxorcist0
hmmmm... what's the story behind the request.... is it a matter of an IT dept demanding .NET but not the budget to use $$$ stuff? There's probably some back-story here...
- Centigrade0
Yeah there is a back story. It needs to talk to their warehouse inventory software.
- vaxorcist0
probably has more to do with the warehouse inventory software than anything else.... note that ODBC can be toooo sloooowww in practice sometimes... this may be easy, or very $$$ consultant-o-rama.... beware firewall entertainment...
- visual_infection0
We use DNN at the place I work. I can tell you it's kind of a bear to work with, and I don't feel it's very user friendly.
It's supposed to be a lot of plug and play, but a lot of times things just don't act or behave the way they are supposed to. There are always updates, but we actually update the CMS as little as possible because (and this must have happened before I started) it always broke something.
I'm very lucky, because I have a programmer that I work with that can pretty much make anything happen on there, but there is a bit of a learning curve to it. The community for designers and how to skin the sites is not very helpful.
A lot of what I learned was trial and error. And I still sometimes feel limited by the system.
However, it does seem to play nice with inventory and wear house software. We built a pretty complex ecommerce site using DNN and custom built modules.
Hope that helps. I think my email is in my profile if you have any specific questions, I can probably find out the answer for you.
- tOki0
Stay away from it!!!!!
- Centigrade0
Thanks for all the input people. Lots to mull over. More research to be done!