Doug Murphy
dw-murphy at cox.net
Mon Jan 17 11:54:21 CST 2011
Jim, Have you looked at the selection of skins for DNN? You can pretty much make you DNN site look any way you want or creat your own skins. My biggest complaint with DNN is slowness. This may not be a problem with dedicated servers but with shared hosting it is dropped from the memory pool if not used for a while and needs to be reloaded on the next use. I might have better results with a hosting service that specializes in DNN hosting. For now most sites are on Godaddy. Doug -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2011 9:06 PM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] Joomla I must admit those sites don't look like a standard DNN site... which are horrible, in their commonality. (Just like the graphic program Bryce... It was great graphic program but all the graphics looked like Bryce.) A good list of sites. Jim -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Shamil Salakhetdinov Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2011 6:29 PM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] Joomla Hi Jim -- OK. :) I'd set them this way: - features; - performance; - appearance. with all three aiming "to get perfect first time" for companies with big bucks but for others from real world getting real results maybe not 100% but just 99.98% perfect and using DNN :) Here are a few samples I have in my selection list, which look 99%-100% satisfactory for me - (not my projects - I'm not a "DNN wizard" (yet)): http://www.jackandjillholidays.com http://www.thenewdesigner.co.uk/ http://www.edgetrainingsystems.com/ http://camt.artsnet.org http://www.wilmingtonnc.gov http://www.croatiaairlines.com/ http://www.reachoutside.com/ http://www.nyxdata.com/ http://www.apronstagerestaurant.co.uk http://www.challengerpools.com/ http://www.dotcomsoftwaresolutions.com/ http://www.bancodecordonivida.com/ Please mark the ones from the above list you might find not 99%-100% satisfactory from your point of view - let's review them here? :) Some projects above are from Rick Beddie: http://www.psdtodnn.com He knows all "ins and outs" of DNN and DNN skinning - I talked to him by e-mail a few times: AFAIHGFH there are no big secrets there how to make DNN flying - one have to be just a good web developer, and to use one of broadly available these days rather inexpensive ASP.NET hosting... Just a warning: DNN has several months-half an year or even more learning curve for *customization* developer's work experience but to make a good working CMS using free community edition plus a few inexpensive commercial modules and skins doesn't need any custom programming at all, one don't need even to be even a programmer if they use PowerDNN or similar hosting... DNN also has a bit heavy codebase, yes... I have just recently found what could become a real DNN rival in long run: Orchard CMS http://orchardproject.net/ as it comes from MS guys, and it doesn't have all that "legacy burden" DNN has got historically as its development started from ASP.NET 1.1 AFAIK... Thank you. -- Shamil -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence Sent: 17 ?????? 2011 ?. 4:29 To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] Joomla I guess "the proof is in the pudding" as they say. I would not mind seeing some of the websites that both DNN and Joomla have created. Appearance is as important as performance...just like would you be comfortable in an Airplane that has broken seats regardless of who designed the air craft. But the features have to be there as well. As I can not be an expert at everything I will have to settle on a few core products and any help would be greatly appreciated. Jim -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Shamil Salakhetdinov Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2011 11:44 AM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] Joomla Hi All -- Sorry a bit off-topic - I suppose that DNN 5.x Community Edition is the best free CMS for MS shops. Why goto Joomla (.PHP) path if you're an "MS fun"? :) Thank you. -- Shamil -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock Sent: 16 ?????? 2011 ?. 20:42 To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: Re: [AccessD] Joomla Hi Jim That depends, but if you are looking for CMS-style systems, at least two top-notch Open Source systems for .NET exist. Composite C1: http://www.composite.net/C1.aspx Umbraco: http://www.umbraco.org They are quite different - and both different from DNN - and I haven't had a need for either of them so I cannot advice further. /gustav >>> accessd at shaw.ca 16-01-2011 18:01 >>> Hi Ken: To be honest, I have never been able to get a client fully self-sufficient and after 30 plus have basically given up on it. ;-) Joomla, like DNN may not be the product I need. So far, when building web sites I use ASP.Net to build the mock up/lay our and then go in and remove the extra pieces (lots and lots of extra pieces as every possible option is code managed), while stuffing in some of my own code. It is not a super fast construction method but it is getting faster and it is quicker than building the whole site from scratch. I do not know if any other person uses this crude hack method but is there a good pre-existing clean frame-work so I do not need to re-invent the wheel. 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