Vashon Software

By john on 4/8/2009 12:45 PM

While the good folks making DotNetNuke my favorite web application framework have been busy improving the product, like most others, their documentation has languished far behind for several versions. While a new effort strives to remedy this oft-discussed situation, it reportedly faces "technical issues".

In the meantime, here are some resources to consider for (non-development) DotNetNuke documentation:

Use Google to search the DotNetNuke site - and especially their forums....

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By john on 4/8/2009 9:05 AM

There are times to hire a professional, especially for the more complex sites, but there are now a number of easy-to-use web site creation tools that do a good job for basic sites - for free!

While designers will use Adobe's Dreamweaver or Microsoft's Expression Web products for ultimate design control over their websites, experience shows you better have a big (time) budget if you want to create a site from scratch, much less to keep it maintained.

More efficient is to use one of the hundreds of Web Application Frameworks (many mislabeled as Content Management Systems) out there. See CMSMatrix.org or Wikipedia for the best listings of these I've seen. Joomla!,...

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