DotNetNuke (DNN) Experts Installation & Setup Consulting - SRG Networks, Houston, Texas, USA
Houston Texas DotNetNuke Development Experts
Our DotNetNuke Services
We help small and medium size businesses setup web based free open source DotNetNuke content management website to offer low cost website solution. Our professionals can create custom DotNetNuke template, skins and Modules to create a website that matching with your corporate branding and color scheme. It can be either a replicate of your corporate website or our web designers can develop a brand new layout for you as per your requirements. We help our clients implementing and configuring DotNetNuke content management application that can be extended by their low cost administrative staff for content population. DotNetNuke is one of the most popular content management solutions available today under GNU (Open Source) licenses. It virtually cost nothing to small businesses and thus saves thousands of dollars in licensing and support cost for expensive content management solution.
Among our many clients, we have helped implementing DotNetNuke solution for one of the internationally recognized non-profit organizations. This implementation has saved them thousands of dollars in licensing and support cost of their existing Content Management System.
OpenSource (brief Introduction)
Open Source Definition is used by Open Source Initiative to determine whether or not a software license should be considered as Open Source. In general, Open Source is a set of principles of how to write a software application and most important is to make the source code available to public. Today there are numerous small to medium size applications are available for user (at no cost) that are mainly developed by large network of volunteer software programmers. Some of the most popular applications are Apache Web Server, IP protocol, Mozilla Firefox Web Browser and the most famous Linux operating system. Source code for all these applications is freely available on the internet. There are certain GNU license agreements that one must follow before using and commercializing products based on these technologies.
DotNetNuke is also a part of OpenSource community of applications. It was an addition to Nuke product family to using Microsoft.NET Framework. It has been preceded by two popular web based Content Management System called JNuke for Java and PHP Nuke using OpenSource PHP Scripting technologies.
DotNetNuke application is available in 107 different languages and separate language packs are available for download on DotNetNuke’s official website.
DotNetNuke basic installation comes with sets of modules such as Account Login, Announcements, Events, Documents, FAQ etc. Search and Search Result are one of the most popular modules in DotNetNuke, which is essential in every medium to large size CMS based website today. It also includes some of the popular modules widely used and also called part of Web 2.0 technologies such as Forum, Blogs etc.
What is DotNetNuke? (In Simple Terms)
DotNetNuke (aka DNN) is one of the most popular OpenSource Content Management System. It is a pre-built web application system that can be installed and host on your server or your company’s hosting service provider.
How good a content management system (DotNetNuke) is for me or my business?
As mentioned earlier, DNN is developed based on a concept of Content Management System (CMS).
Generally, CMS application has following built-in features
User-Friendly Interface modules so change overall website navigation such as adding links and sub links
Pre-define modules to add new web page and other simple functionality such as user login
WYSIWYG (What You see is what you Get) Editor, similar to Microsoft Word application, rich editor to add content for your web pages. Content can be simple text, images and other rich media such as video players and flash plug-ins. Some basic HTML skills are required to incorporate some special functionalities
Simple site structures management such as menu, sub-menus, section, sub-sections, site maps, site navigation, quick links, external/ internal links, web file store etc
External integration point to incorporate programmable module for additional functionality such as custom web forms, offline-online data exchange / transformation or custom reporting system
Pros
Building and maintain website is relatively easier and cheaper
No software licensing and ongoing cost for the application (under Open Source agreement)
Most likely bug free application since it has been developed by experienced professionals
Lots of free support available online
Cons
Still require basic HTML skills to incorporate some basic functionality
Out-of-box application has its own limitation for customization and extensibility
DotNetNuke (DNN) Modules
Conclusion
DotNetNuke (DNN) is most popular Web Based Content Management System available for free download and usage under Open Source (GNU) license agreement. It has sets of exciting features to develop a small to medium size enterprise CMS application. It is backed by a large group of volunteer software programmer and ample source of documentation, free sample code and modules. Individual software modules are easy to plug-in into DNN to extend the application for medium to complex computing functionality. Many organizations are using this product and it has proven credibility and reliability among its users.
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