More and more sites are being developed in the UK using the DotNetNuke Open source platform. When Meon Creative began, we were one of only very few who were building and designing on the platform and we have watched it grow from an unstable toddler to a much more reliable and sturdy maturity.
Once understood, DotNetNuke (DNN) is a powerful tool that allows web designers to easily and cheaply offer content managed websites. However, if you cannot master skinning and adapting tokens to suite your style, your web projects can quite easily turn into a DNN-typical site. These sites are often characterized by the DNN standard ‘blue skin’ or its container package. The [SOLPARTMENU] is a dead giveaway on most DNN site, but it offers an easy and manageable solution to your menu structure.
One item that web designers cannot seem to avoid is the typical DNN login box. Not so easy to customize, this is the first thing I look for when identifying the website platform.
The availability of DNN modules makes it an incredibly versatile platform. Sites such as SnowCovered list modules from hundred of differed developers across the World and allows you to read reviews, rate products and see just how effective their support system is.
So where is DNN going? I personally predict that more and more people will realise the potential of DNN and systems such as Microsoft’s SharePoint will start to lose out to the open source-ness (?!?) of the platform. The collaboration element of DNN is its real selling point and it masters User Management and Logins as a matter of course.
As a result, we will soon be publishing a separate DNN blog to help those of us in the UK to share ideas and knowledge within our time zone. To follow this will be an IMeon Creative DNN site to allow the collaboration that DNN promotes.
Watch this space…
Anna
Website Design Hampshire | Website Design Wiltshire | DNN in the UK