So for the past week I’ve been working on a new skin/layout. It’s not much, but it’s a start of cleaning up my personal site a little. I’m going to be making some tweaks to the formatting of the way the blog posts are displayed over the next couple of weeks. In order to do that though I need to get the 5.3 version of Engage: Publish released so that I can get to work on the templating system for the module that will allow me to do the new formatting that I want.

What do you think of the new look?

So I'm finally getting around to doing a write-up about my conversion from CommunityServer to DotNetNuke. The conversion wasn't for the faint of heart, though it has been a great learning experience, which I hope will be beneficial to anyone else considering moving away from CommunityServer or other platforms and onto the DotNetNuke platform. I chose to move from CommunityServer to DotNetNuke 4.8.0 running the Engage: Publish module, available from www.engagemodules.com. My reasons for choosing the Publish module are detailed below. Overall the process has taken me rougly 3 weeks, though not all of that time was spent doing things productive :). I hope to cover some of the details on this conversion, and the thoughts going into the process, as well as thoughts after the process. Before I do that though I will give you a little background on my experience with both systems first.

A description of this website and the software that powers the site.

  Last week we were able to release the long awaited new release of Engage: Publish with all new bells and whistles.Engage: Publish is an article management system / workflow engine for your DotNetNuke portal. It provides advanced content management capabilities with workflow - approval, content categorization and related articles.  With Engage: Publish you’ll never have to worry about clicking the update button in DotNetNuke.  Your content history is safe and sound.  Plus, if you have multiple authors of content, you’ll be secure knowing that the content created by your authors will not be “live” until an administrator approves.  All this plus several different ways of managing content categories and displays you'll wonder how you ever lived without Publish.A demo of Engage: Publish can be found at http://demo.engagemodules.com and you can find tutorials, videos, and more on the Publish Wiki page.Features Proven Content Approval Workflow Multiple Levels of Category Creation Article Versioning Ajax-Enabled Ratings and Comments Tuned for Better Search Engine Optimization Multiple relationships, articles can be related to multiple categories, as well as other articles. Categories can be related to other categories in a parent/child hierarchy Printer friendly support RSS support Advanced searching within categories Successfully passed the DotNetNuke Review Program Many more  Engage: Publish 4.2 requires DotNetNuke 4.5.1, the ASP.NET Ajax Toolkit, and the ASP.NET Ajax Framework. Engage: Publish has been through the DotNetNuke Module Review programEngage: Publish is available for purchase from the DotNetNuke Marketplace, Snowcovered, and EngageModules.com. Posted from...