DotNetNuke is an open-source content management system, developed by the DotNetNuke project community (www.dotnetnuke.com), with the goal of creating a powerful, customizable and easy-to-manage tool for the creation and administration of websites, intranets, extranets and online publishing portals.
Built using Microsoft’s ASP.NET format, DNN has grown to a community of over 125,000 users.
DNN allows customers to manage the structure, navigation, security and content of a website, intranet, extranet or portal. Functionality includes the ability to:
- Manage Content
- Create pages and sub-pages
- Place content “modules”, including:
o Text
o Images
o Links
o Documents
o Threaded Discussion Forums
o Surveys
o Email Forms
o Banner Ads
o Photo Albums
o News
o Calendar of Events
o FAQs
o Module Sharing
o Search
o Maps
o Weather
o RSS News Feeds
o Broadcast e-mail to individual users / group accounts
- Manage Security
- Set security to pages and individual content
- Create and manage individual user and group accounts
- Allow for automatic or authorized registration to the site
- Site Administration
- Real-Time Traffic Reporting
o Track registered user account activity
o Page popularity
o Overall hits
o Site referrals
o Page views by day, hour and month
o Browser types (“agents”)
- Look and Feel Administration
o If applicable, select from pre-defined look and feel “skins” for various sections of the website, or for individual pages
For more information about DNN, read the i2Integration article: "A Look at Dot Net Nuke".