Homer
Perch
Portal. CMS. Whatever you want to call it. I've been looking at some Linux packages (free stuff) and have come to the conclusion that (at least for me) something like DotNetNuke on Windows is a much better solution to my needs. I looked at post nuke, php nuke, mambo and e107 on Linux. In my opinion, none of them comes close to the kind of things I can do with DNN. PHP Nuke and Post Nuke are very mature, have a huge following and have lots of themes and add-ons available, but I am comparing out of the box functionality. I put a reasonable amount of time into researching the Linux products and trying to do something with them and I just don't get the flexibility that I see with DNN.
DNN is moving forward very nicely with their development schedule and releases. I don't like the way that ASP.NET takes time to get started on the first visit to the site, but after that its very fast. I have not looked into what it would take to code for DNN, but I know how to code for asp.net and think I could handle it if I needed. One thing that kind of turns me off about DNN is that so many people are selling their add-ons - trying to make a quick buck. But using the out of the box modules and a couple free ones and it does everything I need it to do.
I stink at the visual part of setting up these sites, so I'm at the mercy of the theme developer. Mambo seems to rely a good bit on the theme to do simple things (like having a multi-level menu). Mambo was fast. But it was not flexible enough. Now, all I have to do is find some decent themes for DNN and I'll be set.
This is just my 2 cents and I thought I'd share them with you after putting some time into researching the Linux portal packages.
DNN is moving forward very nicely with their development schedule and releases. I don't like the way that ASP.NET takes time to get started on the first visit to the site, but after that its very fast. I have not looked into what it would take to code for DNN, but I know how to code for asp.net and think I could handle it if I needed. One thing that kind of turns me off about DNN is that so many people are selling their add-ons - trying to make a quick buck. But using the out of the box modules and a couple free ones and it does everything I need it to do.
I stink at the visual part of setting up these sites, so I'm at the mercy of the theme developer. Mambo seems to rely a good bit on the theme to do simple things (like having a multi-level menu). Mambo was fast. But it was not flexible enough. Now, all I have to do is find some decent themes for DNN and I'll be set.
This is just my 2 cents and I thought I'd share them with you after putting some time into researching the Linux portal packages.