An Overview of DotNetNuke

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, DotNetNuke has grown to a community of over 650,000 users.

The DotNetNuke system is free and requires no licensing fees, no per-user fees and no yearly maintenance fees.

DotNetNuke capabilities include:

Create pages and sub-pages within the website
Ability to set page name, META tags, page security and graphic “skin” type

Place and edit content “modules” within any page, including:
- Text
- Full featured, rich text editor
- Placement of links, images, documents

Documents
Explorer-style documents module. Ability to create folders, add and categorize documents, set folder and document security.

Events
- Ability to add and manage events

News
- Ability to add and manage news releases.
- RSS news feed creation and management
- Pre-post news events. Set news expiration dates.

FAQ
- Ability to add and manage frequently asked questions.

Search
- Ability to search all content

Banner Ads
- Ability to place, manage and track banner ads including click-through rates.

Miscellaneous modules, including:
- Blog
- Survey
- Feedback
- Weather
- Forum
- Image gallery
- Google Analytics integration, and more

Set page and content security
- Create, manage and assign users and groups
- Set group access to both pages and content

Access administrator functionality, including:
- Send broadcast emails
- Allow users to register to the website
- View real-time website traffic reports