Sorry if this has already been mentioned but, Microsoft is partway
through writing it's own open source CMS http://orchard.codeplex.com/
It's not quite ready for prime time but if u have the time to wait it
is looking good and is all ASP.MVC
- Glav
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On 17/03/2010, at 9:24 AM, Jonathan Parker <[email protected]
> wrote:
Keep a lookout for Umbraco 5 as well as this is going to be written
in ASP.NET MVC.
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Grant Molloy <[email protected]>
wrote:
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.
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