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I've been dabbling with a rewrite of my scooter site: Zundapp
Bella Information Center. The site was written at least 5 years ago using ASP,
JScript and a mixed bag of Access databases and SQL Server. The problem is, I've got
lots of features I want to rewrite using .NET but I just have too many other projects
going on right now.
On Friday, a coworker showed me his new family site built on DotNetNuke.
DNN is a portal framework built on the IBuySpy Portal Solution Kit. It has tons of
features, an API for producing your own modules, and best of all, it is free.
(You can download the most recent build from the DNN
Workspace at GotDotNet.)
In less than an hour I had it up and running. An hour later and I had my navigation
structures done and about half the content moved over. At that point I stopped to
reoganize what I had done, but I was very impressed with how easy it was to use. The
biggest dissappointment is that the code is all in VB.NET. I'm not a language bigot,
I just prefer to work in C#. Oh well... Other than a quick recompile after installing
a photo gallery
module, I haven't really had to muck about in the code anyway.
Anyway, I hope to have the new ZBIC site up soon and DNN has made that possible. If
you need a free content management/portal engine, you certainly should check it out.
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