DotNetNuke help needed.

[sydney_web_designer]

There are plenty of good ASP cms systems - you will just have to crawl the web a bit. I agree with the others though - if you are not going to custom develop a system in .NET (which is it's strength), you may as well be using a php based system like Joomla.

For your dropdowns you should be using this instead -
Suckerfish Dropdown

[sholman]

I'm new to these forums and thought I'd add my two cents worth in re DNN.

I deal with DNN from two angles, the hosting of it through Expressnet and the use and development of it through Developed Solutions. Expressnet hosts probably 200 - 250 DNN sites and Developed Solutions manages around 20 of them.

DNN is a magnificent tool if you know what your doing with it. The more I work with DNN the more I like it. It is a very powerful and scalable platform that has a lot of available add-on modules. Some of the modules are really good (like ActiveForums) and there are also some really awful ones. Developing your own custom modules for it is easy if you know ASP.NET (VB or C#). We've developed probably 100 small modules and a few larger ones.

It's fairly hard for a CMS beginner to get their head around DNN. The standard menu is not overly friendly to work with. There are 3 or 4 alternative menu system that can be used with it.

Persistence is the key with DNN. Once you get the hang of it, it becomes a really useful tool.

[ashul]

Hey Simon

Good to have you onboard thanks for your 2Cts - Just a question about DNN - is there a move to go LINQ in the future or is it already there have not seen the DB for years now - used to be shed loads of SP's - Gotta say we are loving Linq..

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[sholman]

Ashul

Sorry for the delay in geting back to you.

The core DNN still uses a lot of sp's but the framework supports LINQ so you can use that in your own modules.

[heist]

I'm beginning a foray into DNN, so far i'm liking it but haven't done much dev.

I'm scouring snowcovered for a nice default skin but not having too much luck... templates always make me cringe.

anyone know of some solid ones? good code, tight design?