DotNetNuke (DNN) Features
DotNetNuke (DNN) is a powerful, high performance Open Source Content Management Portal with support from Microsoft and a huge line of after market developers. Portals are the ideal Content Management System; providing a single point of interaction with dynamic information, applications, or processes to help people create, store, access, communicate and control information. A portal simplifies organizational management by providing a unified, centrally accessible interface for your systems and data.
 Built in Standard Features
You have total control of your web portal, membership, and a powerful set of tools to maintain a dynamic and 100% interactive data-driven web site. Update your portal instantly with branding and skinning made easy. The recycle bin allows you to restore any content modules or pages that you have deleted. Simply select the page or module to restore and click the Restore button. The module or page instantly reappears in the location that it was deleted from.
Add On Premium Modules
There are many modules available for sale from internet e-commerce to private accounting, inventory control and point of sale systems. Add high impact special purpose modules to provide interactive features to your portal. Modules include skin able Forum, Image gallery, Personal Photo Albums, Private Messaging, Blogs, Wikis’, Classified Catalogues and more! Manage users and information distribution easily. Configure modules to show Who is Online, User Lists, Contact Lists, and more! Basic and Advanced modules to help promote your site to new prospects and retain your current client base. Advanced HTML Newsletters, Bulk E-Mailers, Advanced E-Mail Campaign Manager plus more. For specialty modules check out www.snowcovered.com. You have the engine and can tailor your site to the exact needs of your company as it grows and changes.
Architecture
DotNetNuke is produced using MS Best Practices and some of the best developers in the world. To build as solid a framework as DNN would require far more hours (and a much higher skill-set than is available in-house) than any business unit would be willing to pay for. Visit the Core Team at www.dotnetnuke.com/Default.aspx?tabid=698.
Upgradeability
Support for DotNetNuke is huge 90,000 registered users and growing. Many developers world-wide support DNN, for testimonials and comments search DotNetNuke Forums at www.asp.net. For training and seminars check out www.dotnetnuke.com. For free documentation downloads visit portals.my-asp.net.
Roles Based Security
Set up page and content editing rights for individual users. The user then simply logs in to the website and can immediately edit the content they have authorization for. Editing rights can be given for the whole website a single page or module. You can set up a number of security groups with editing rights to different areas of your portal. Then you can add multiple individuals to each group. This group membership assignment is where DotNetNuke shines. Security is very tight, users are stored in the SQL database. Some large companies have added their own in-house authentication and additional encryption methods.
Password Protected Content
You have full control over who can access each area the portal. One portal can feature a number of password protected areas allowing different access to buyers, suppliers, members, or resellers, depending on your main contact groups. You can even include a staff only Intranet Area. Provides a centralized data storage for your website and documents.
Site Branding
Complete site branding, the only reference to DotNetNuke is in the visual basic code and this cannot be seen. Read the License in the Documentation folder of your portal.
File Management
Upload files and images directly from your computer to your website. Once you have loaded a file, it is instantly available in your file list. Upload permissions are controlled by you.
Search Engine Submission
Submit your website to Google directly from your web administration page. Enter your website title, description and keywords for each page. My-ASP.Net DotNetNuke website portals are easy to optimize for Search Engine Marketing. Every DotNetNuke portal page includes SEO and website design tools to make it fast and easy for updating your presentation, content or setting your search engine tags.
Traffic Analysis
The portal log includes a number of reports on you portal statistics including hits, page views, browser information and more. Reports include: Detailed portal log, page popularity, views by day, week, hour, month, user frequency or registration and more.
Multiple Domains
- multiple portal implementation using a single codebase / database ( you can run multiple sites off of a single ASP.NET hosted account )
- assign users to specific portals
- separate upload directories for each portal ( fully integrated with modules )
- customize appearance of each portal with unique logo, style sheet ( skin )
- File Upload Admin module for Portal Administrators to upload files to their upload folder
- User Registration fields ( full address )
- Service based system where Portal Administrators can define Roles which have an associated service fee and expiry date ( hooks directly to PayPal for online payment processing )
- Bulk Email Admin Module based on Roles
- Site Logging Admin Module including a Site Log Viewer and Statistics
- Vendor Management Admin module
- Banner Advertising ( global for all portals and local for individual portals )
- Super User accounts for creating new portals using the Admin UI
- Scheduling of jobs and tasks
- Log Viewer for easily viewing the system log files
- Customize Module appearance with Display Title, Border, Alignment, Background Color, Icon
- Admin has direct access to Tabs and Modules.
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