Mark Breen
marklbreen at gmail.com
Sat Mar 27 06:11:36 CDT 2010
Hello John, I urge you strongly to spend a little time to review DotNetNuke. You will be extremely surprised how easy it can be to work with it. Of course it is all asp.net and you can choose vb or C#, which ever you prefer. All the work I do in it is C#. I have recently been working on a application with a large db and I have build about 30 forms all with less than 20 lines of code. I have to state at the outset that I am also depending on Telerik radGrid. There are modules available to do the subscription based email stuff, and also all sorts of other things, such as face book and twitter integration etc, they all cost money, but the money tends to be <€100 or else <$200. DNN will 1)let you work in the MS field 2) manage all the heavy lifting for a web app 3) all you to add on custom modules for pocket money 4) Allow you to build your own modules should you need them 5) allow you to use a shared hosting account for approx $200 - $300 per annum with a good hosting company (www.powerdnn.com) that specialise in DNN hosting. 6) the hosting company will set up DNN for you If you like I can send you two files and you can see that with just these two files I have a working form that allows the user to perform CRUD functionality. You can also spend 30 minutes browsing www.snowcovered.com to see the kinds of skins and modules that are available for free or for small money. Is that any help? thanks Mark On 26 March 2010 03:56, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> wrote: > Randy, > > > I am all for writing/developing custom sites, but would you consider > using an off-the-shelf > (open-source) package like Joomla or umbraco? > > Well, let me lay out a couple of considerations: > > 1) This is eventually going to be heavy custom programming. > 2) One of my objectives is to provide myself (and you guys) an opportunity > to learn ASP.Net > 3) I have until around the November time frame to get the basics up. > > My functionality objectives are: > > 1) Accumulate a list of PIP graduate contact info and get it into a > database. > 2) Allow PIP graduates the ability to edit their own data so that as they > move around they can keep > their own data up to date. PIP graduates need to be able to email and call > each other and not drop > off the planet because they move. > 3) Allow someone (management) the ability to blast emails out to focused > email lists. For example > all of the PIP graduates in a given state might need to send emails to the > legislators for their > states based on the zip they reside in. > 4) Allow someone to blast out a similar set of emails to the entire list of > PIP graduates about > legislation before congress. > 5) Allow opt-out > > 6) Eventually accumulate a similar email / contact list for a wider > audience of basically anyone > with a stake in the disability issue - persons with or caretakers of > persons with a disability. IOW > if legislation is before congress and I have a quarter million people who > have signed up to receive > notices and send emails, the system would sent emails to all quarter > million people. The email > would have a link back to the web page server to a page where they could > compose and send an email > to their specific legislator. > > 7) Eventually allow some group of users to monitor legislation and organize > the email blasts as > legislation comes up for a vote. > > I want to emulate the functionality of http://consumer-action.org/ except > designed for a disability > group rather than a consumer group. > > So, I would certainly consider a canned package IF it was: > > 1) Windows based, because I am Windows based and I don't have access to > people with the expertise to > write this on a linux platform. > 2) .Net based, because I am .Net based and I don't have access to people > with the expertise to write > this in a non .net platform. > 3) Able to easily integrate the kinds of functionality I am discussing > above. > > This is not going to be a "public facing pretty web site" but rather a > workhorse web site which is > less about people visiting and more about executing jobs. Or at least that > is my take on things at > this juncture. > > I understand "select the best tool for the job" but in the end this is my > project (in that it is up > to me to make it succeed) and I need to select tools that I can use to get > the job done, and which I > can find people familiar with those tools. > > So yes, I am not discounting any off-the-shelf solution if it meets the > workhorse needs. I > personally run DNN on my company web site (though it desperately needs > maintenance) and I absolutely > LOVE it for that kind of job. OTOH trying to hook into it is not for the > faint of heart. > > If you are intimately familiar with one or more of these packages and think > it fits the bill, please > come back with a discussion. > > John W. Colby > www.ColbyConsulting.com > > > Randy Sigmond wrote: > > John, > > > > > > > > I am all for writing/developing custom sites, but would you consider > using an off-the-shelf (open-source) package like > > Joomla or umbraco? > > > > > > > > It may be possible to get something up quickly using either of the > mentioned items above and then modify for specifics. > > > > > > > > Just a thought. > > > > > > > > Randy Sigmond > > > > Restech Online > > > > www.restechonline.com > > > > Ph: 248.568.0053 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > dba-SQLServer mailing list > > dba-SQLServer at databaseadvisors.com > > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-sqlserver > > http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > > > _______________________________________________ > dba-SQLServer mailing list > dba-SQLServer at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-sqlserver > http://www.databaseadvisors.com > >