What Is DotNetNuke?
DotNetNuke is a development framework that enables businesses to quickly build and deploy feature-rich, interactive websites and applications in Microsoft environments. Through an intuitive, menu-driven interface, even non-technical users can use DotNetNuke to easily create new sites or extend the functionality and features of existing web applications. With hundreds of thousands of portals, intranets, extranets, and public websites built on DotNetNuke—and an enthusiastic open-source community that is more than 600,000 strong and growing—DotNetNuke is the world’s most widely adopted framework for building web solutions on the Microsoft stack. >> Learn more about DotNetNuke >> Read the frequently asked questions >> Experiment now with an online demo Professional and Community Editions DNN Corp. offers Professional and Community Editions of DotNetNuke based on the same widely adopted and exhaustively tested code base and backed by the same thriving open source community of users, develop
From company intranets to mom and pop shops to local chapters of the 4H club, most organizations are looking to have a presence on the World Wide Web. Open-source web portals answer this demand by providing easy to install and use websites that are not only extremely functional but also free. Whether it is to sell services or to have a place to meet, web portals play an important part of communications on the Web. In this chapter, we will first discuss what web portals are and what successful web portals have in common. We will explore different types of open-source web portals and discuss why we selected DotNetNuke for our project over other available portals. In addition, we will cover the benefits gained by using an established program as a framework and the benefits of DotNetNuke specifically. We will then introduce Coffee Connections, our fictional client. We will get a brief overview of Coffee Connections, determine the specific requirements for its website and gather the require
