I am considering to use a cms for my website. As I am a .net developer, I think the best ideea would be to chose a .net cms tool, but I am not sure which one to pick. I've heard sitefinity from telerik is quite good but unfortunately is quite expensive, DNN it's a pain. Umbraco seems preety good, but it lacks the e-Commerce module. What about mojo portal, have you used it?
Which one would you recommend?
DotNetNuke - it's the most widely used .Net CMS and has a huge community of coders that modify it.
If you want to go insane, try DNN. I am insane now, and went for mojoPortal instead. It seems to cover your requirements and it is a breeze to set up. :)
Hi Harriyott,
Sitefinity has a fully functional Community Edition. This product is completely free. The only limitation is workflow is not included (meaning you can't roll-back to previous versions of a page or implement an approval process for content). There is also a "Powered by Sitefinity" logo that will appear at the bottom of your web site. Other than that, the product is fully functional and there are no hidden 500 page or 10 user limitations you'll smack into given time.
You can use Sitefinity Community Edition for personal OR commercial web sites. Some additional information can be found here:
http://www.sitefinity.com/support/forums/support-forum-thread/b1043S-bgbbmt.aspx
Sitefinity doesn't currently have a plug-n-play eCommerce solution. There are a number of efforts building on this front though. Several developers have been able to plug their own eCommerce systems into Sitefinity.
Ektron CMS 400.net 7.6 is pretty good -- excellent general CMS, great social networking and multilingual support, and now coming out with eCommerce. It's also a lot cheaper than most of the alternatives. Oh yeah, it's .net, which helps!
Cuyahago project is a great CMS project. It has the best architecture design you can find among open source CMSs. You should take a look before make a decision
Take a look at http://www.sitecore.net , they have stunning support, awesome architecture from the ground up and fully .NET with no external dependencies and supports multilingual options natively.
Found this thread (very useful), and eventually ended up at CMSMatrix. A CMS search engine that includes detailed features for each CMS, and you can compare up to 10 side by side.
If you are building an ecommerce website, i'd recommend to go for a customized solutions which should be cost effective, ease with coding and seo friendly. Go For PLAVEB Ecommerce Solutions.
I would recommend VevoCart free shopping cart to anyone who wants to start an ecommerce. You can download with no cost at http://www.vevocart.com/DownloadGreeting.aspx.
I hope that this will be useful for you.
The only CMS I've heard good things about is SiteFinity from Telerik. My company evaluated it temporarily but decided to go with Joomla instead, primarily due to cost concerns. However, we do use the Telerik RAD Controls within one of our projects and I must say I'm extremely impressed with them.
I would, however, avoid the Ektron CMS. We've had nothing but bad experiences with it, one after another. Their customer support is atrocious, I've had co-workers spend multiple hours at a time on hold, and rarely have we gotten answers from the first level support guys. The web interface is slow and buggy, un-usable in IE(I know that isn't really saying a whole lot).
The document management system handles Word documents in the most bizarre fashion. There is no easy way to just straight up replace a document. However, this is possible with every other file type hosted on our server (PDFs, PPT, etc...).
Every single one of our programmers and content editors despises that CMS. So much so that our IT Manager has made the decision to replace all our Ektron based websites with Joomla. Yes, it was actually cheaper to hire a PHP developer and move all the content by hand (due to the completely different content structure) from Ektron to Joomla, than it was to continue using Ektron.
Beware and stay away.