JG Webdesign now offers custom web sites which are DotNetNuke driven.
What is DotNetNuke?
DotNetNuke is an open-source content management system ideal for creating and deploying projects such as commercial websites, corporate intranets and extranets, and online publishing portals.
What is a content management system (CMS)?
A content management system helps to create, manage, publish, and distribute information. With respect to the internet or intranets, a CMS is designed to manage site content, design, membership, security, hosting, and vendor options.
What are the benefits of a CMS?
Some benefits that a content management system offers are -- greater site consistency, improved site navigation, streamlined authoring process, faster turnaround time for new pages and changes, increased site flexibility, support for decentralised authoring, increased security, reduced duplication of information, greater capacity for growth, and reduced site maintenance costs.
Is DotNetNuke easy to use?
Yes. DotNetNuke was ultimately designed for end-users -- everyday people, like those who maintain websites for minor sports associations, non-profits, and charitable groups. This focus has been translated into DotNetNuke's design, which includes a well-researched & intuituve interface, a site wizard, and help icons throughout.
Can I customize the appearance of my DotNetNuke site?
Absolutely. Changes can be made to sites at all levels – from basic stylesheet elements like font type, color, and bullet points, to overall site appearance. New skins and module containers can be easily applied to the site with no repercussion on content.
What kinds of content does DotNetNuke manage?
DotNetNuke is designed to manage the type of online content that would be most frequently added or edited on a particular site. To handle these content types -- such as text, graphics, charts, and calendars -- DotNetNuke employs "modules." These are modular pieces of code that give some form of specific functionality to the user, and are grouped together in units to form complete web pages. DotnetNuke comes with over 25 standard modules, including Announcements, Discussions, FAQs, Events Lisitng/Calendar, Feedback, Search, Image, and Links.
What site settings can I alter?
You can alter all the basic aspects of your site through the "site settings" page. These settings include the title of the site, search engine description (keywords) and submission, user welcome messages, logos, site background and "skins."
What are modules?
Simply, they are modular pieces of code which provide some form of specific functionality to the user, and are grouped together in units to form complete web pages. These modules can be easily added, edited, deleted, restored, moved around on a page, or transferred to other pages. DotNetNuke installation includes over 25 free modules. These are: Account Login, Announcements, Banners, Contacts, Discussion, Documents, Events List/Calendar, FAQs, Feedback, IFrame, Image, Links, News Feed (RSS), Search Input, Search Results, Service Directory, Survey, Text/HTML, User Accounts, User Defined Table, Users Online, Weblog Calendar, Weblog Recent List, Weblog Referrals List, Weblogs, and XML/XSL.
What are skins?
Skins are customized and interchangeable sets of graphics which allow administrators to easily change the look of their websites, without having to reorganize their content. In "skinning" a site, administrators can completely change the look of their portal without the need to reorganize content – all at the click of a button.
Can I easily upload a file to my site?
Yes. DotNetNuke has a powerful file management tool which allows administrators the ability to upload files directly from their computer to their site, without having to use FTP. Any uploaded file becomes instantly available to be used on the portal, or listed in a module that handles documents or file downloads.
I accidentally deleted a page! Can I retrieve it?
Thank goodness, yes. DotNetNuke's Recycle Bin feature allows users to restore any content, modules, or pages that have been deleted. The deleted item is restored to the location it was deleted from.