Grant, There's plenty of CMS' to choose from here.. http://www.cmswire.com/cms/products/
I've had a look at Umbraco, DNN and SiteFinity.. They're all pretty good, although DNN doesn't appear to target the same audience as Umbraco and SiteFinity. Grant On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Grant Maw <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey David > > Thanks for the detailed response. > > We have to use a .net solution because the client is heavily invested in > .net already and we want to re-use as much as we can in terms of existing > skills and existing code. We are already working with DNN but Sitefinity > came onto our radar and I was just curious as to what people's experiences > were. We'll probably grab the free copy and evaluate it, as well as the one > you mention below. > > Cheers > > Grant > > On 16 March 2010 15:10, David Connors <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 16 March 2010 14:40, Grant Maw <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Wondering if anyone has used Telerik's Sitefinity product before, and if >>> so, what are your thoughts on it as opposed to the other .net CMSs >>> (DotNetNuke in particular). How do you rate it in terms of the learning >>> curve from a developer perspective, ease of deployment of apps, source >>> control issues (if any) etc >>> >>> Any and all comments appreciated >>> >> >> I've not used Sitefinity (looks pretty simplistic from the screenies) but >> as far as my wide and varied search has gone over the years, there are no >> good content management solutions for .NET. If you're after something that >> doesn't pump out some debacle based on web.forms with multiple URLs for the >> same piece of content, etc then you're fresh out of luck. We have always >> ended up doing bespoke solutions for customers - at least that way we can >> ensure we're generating content that is not clogged up with >> viewstate/__dopostback/entire-page-wrapped-in-<form>-tags and other >> web.forms junk. >> >> We did an eval of DNN as a basis for making ozdotnet a web based forum >> (using ActiveForums + the mail connector) and found it particularly >> irritating in terms of the final content rendered and the general pain of >> using the content management application. You end up spending so much time >> fighting their crappy framework that you start to think you might just be >> better writing it all yourself. It is also heavy on the data tier so, like >> most open source amateur night endeavours, a caching strategy (and >> associated pain for highly dynamic sites) is mandatory, not optional. There >> was a whole bunch of stuff in DNN screwed at the time like the scheduler not >> working - and the developers did not appear to give a rats about fixing the >> issues (only to give you the normal useless nerd tech support answer of a >> lecture about not using a web based scheduler but writing a service instead >> - which is good advice except if you're trying to make a COTS package like >> ActiveForums work and it is built around the web based scheduler) >> >> The best thing we've come across is KenticoCMS however it has a lot of odd >> behaviours (multiple URLs for the same piece of content, >> www.codify.com/lists is not the same as www.codify.com/lists/, confusion >> between folders and pages, scalability issues and so on). The content >> management application experience is still less than ideal (you really need >> to know HTML to get the result you want online) and you end up writing >> everything in MS Word and then converting it to ASCII then marking it up >> again in HTML inside the CMS. Their HTML rich editor will defeat your every >> attempt at getting a consistent result on the page. Simple tasks like >> rearranging ten pages is very difficult due to tree views refreshing on >> every operation and so on. Plus it is not cheap if you want to host multiple >> sites. But it is the best of a bad bunch in my view and lets you get the >> fundamentals around content tagging/meta data right. >> >> What are you specifically trying to achieve? That might guide the advice >> the list gives you. >> >> -- >> David Connors ([email protected]) >> Software Engineer >> Codify Pty Ltd - www.codify.com >> Phone: +61 (7) 3210 6268 | Facsimile: +61 (7) 3210 6269 | Mobile: +61 417 >> 189 363 >> V-Card: https://www.codify.com/cards/davidconnors >> Address Info: https://www.codify.com/contact >> >> >
