Hello,
I am new to web development but I want to make a site that is similar in functionality to digg.com where users can submit content and can vote up or down certain content. Based on this up/down vote, I would publish the popular content on the home page and throw away bad content.
My question is, will a CMS (like Umbraco) be a good choice for this type of site? Or should I do everything manually using Visual Studio and ASP.NET?
Thanks for any feedback.
Why reinvent the wheel? Find a CMS that you like to work with and go with it. Unless you truly need to tweak every last bit of performance out of it and don't want a single line of code devoted to something not part of the site, it's a lot simpler to allow another team to take care of the "common core" of functionality that's common to most user-oriented websites.
If you actually want to learn anything, you should definitely build your own. Most of your time spent setting up and running a specific CMS will give you a bunch of knowledge that only applies to that software. If you don't care about learning more about web development and just want your site running, use a CMS.