I'm headed to the Springfield MO on Tuesday the 25th to give a presentation on dotnetnuke to the Springfield DotNet User's Group. I'll be covering the basics of dnn, and a little bit about the development process for dnn. Presentation starts around 6 I believe, I'll probably start around...

Well, somehow I have gotten back into doing web sites for friends! I'm currently working on 3, already setup one for Brian, setup one for Greg but need to tweak it to give it a good look and then train him on how to use it. I've also gotta set one up for Faye, but hers will have to wait till she buys a domain name, and so I can come up with a look/feel for her site as well. I'm using the new CommunityServer release from Telligent Systems for these sites, it allows for blogs/galleries/forums all in one app, and once I get the skinning down the sites will be pretty...

Last night's user group meeting ended up getting started around 6:20, maybe closer to 6:30. We left the building just after 9. I tell ya, my voice was about done with after those 2.5 hours, even though I had a glass of water there to try to help keep my throat going. I covered ALOT of information, I felt a lot better about this presentation then I did the one I had in Springfield earlier this year. I tried to stay more in line with the Powerpoint (any interest to make that downloadable?) as to not veer off topic too far and cover some of the key features of dnn. After finishing up with the power point I started working more with an actual dnn install and showing the capabilities and how to use dnn out of the box. I really could have talked for another 8 hours on how to use dnn, I know this because I've done 3 days of training on dnn before, so trying to fit the key points and functionality into a few hours is tough. Hope everyone walked away with a better understanding of dnn, and hopefully I generated some more local interest for the...

I'm not going to do a full writeup here, but for those of you investigating the differences between dotnetnuke and MS CMS I have a bit of advice for you. Don't bother dropping the $25k on a license for MS CMS, take a look at dotnetnuke, you can't really beat it's licensing costs, how does $0 sound? That's right, dnn is free to use. It's also, IMO, far more simple to develop for, as well as upgrade versions, it's very plug and play compatible with 100s of modules available on the net. Just try adding search into MS CMS, it'll cost you at least another $10k-$15k in fees, while with dnn you can use the standard search, build your own search, OR buy a dnn search enhancement online from NukeSmith.com for $17! This is all, IMO as always, but coming from a developer who is currently working on a MS CMS project, I'd HIGHLY suggest going a different...

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If you're looking for a dotnetnuke book check out this one written by some of the dotnetnuke Core Team Members. I believe there is a brief bio about all the DNN core team members, which means that I'm mentioned in the book! I've been in a few magazines, this will be my first book besides credits in some The Sporting News publications while I worked there. Found a blog by WROX, looks like the book won't be in my hands for another week...

Check out the new dotnetnuke web site, one of the first steps in a major branding push for dnn. It's a great change, clean, easy to read, and I love the new...