DotNetNuke ?

[ShuckyD]

I recently started a new job where i was hired on as an IS Admin and i would also be in charge of their Intranet, updating it, etc.. The guy before me was the one who started it and since he left noone has updated it, it seems as though they want to rely much more on an intranet type of thing between their offices and inside the company. I realized when i started taking a look at their intranet that it was all a template type of thing and not straight up HTML.

I later found out that it is DotNetNuke, i went to their site to learn a little more about them, the newest version it looks like is 4.0 and we currently are on 3.1.1 To make a long and stressful story short. We do not have access to the guy who set this whole thing up under the ASP\DNN thing. All i want to be able to do is add a couple pages and edit some existing hyperlinks at this point. We have a company bio page where there are some people to be added and i just cant seem to be able to create new pages, etc..

I am also not able to find any of the pages that it susposidevely has, this leads me to believe that all of our site is stored in some type of database which makes writing straight up HTML for the pages pretty much impossible.

If anyone knows anything about this DOTNETNUKE stuff and has either positive or negative comments please feel free to share them as i am exasperated in an effort to just do some simple things that would under normal circumstances take just a few minutes, it seems like they cant be done or if they can they will just take a huge amount of time

[RobRich]

DotNetNuke is a content management system, thus there is no need to create full standalone static pages. You need to access the control panel, then you should be able to use the integrated page editor to create new pages and edit existing pages.

Check out this tutorial:

http://www.dotnetnuke.com/guidedtour/

From what I gathered via a quick skim of the tutorial, you will still need to develop the page content in HTML. Once loaded, DotNetNuke will take care of the additional formating, such as header and footers, which is how a typical CMS works.

Even better, the Text/HTML module if installed provides an integrated WYSIWYG editor for quickly developing and editing simple content pages.

http://www.dotnetnuke.com/guidedtour/HelpTextHTML.htm

[ShuckyD]

heh thanks, i do have the HTML/Text editor installed it looks like. So this CMS just manages stuff and there are actual files somewhere of all the pages? or is everything in its own type of database? cause thats what i still suspect.

[RobRich]

Yeap, you have described the CMS concept.

I have not used DotNetNuke, but modern CMS platforms typically store certain content in a database format for improved performance, efficiency, and scaling.

[ShuckyD]

AHHH!!!

well i thank you RobRich for telling me the enevitable, i mean i thought that was where all the stuff was, but now i have someone else to back my theory up.... Here at my new job they think that i should just be able to go in somewhere on one of the servers and find all the pages. The whole time im thinking to myself, "ummm No, No i cant." DNN sucks heh