ASP.net CMS on an existing dynamic website

Question

Hi all,

Ok i'm in a bit of a pickle.

I've built an asp.net site with a pretty big frontend and an even bigger backend. It's a big site with a lot of custom business logic for searching, displaying result sets, detailed records and then other relation DB update operations.

The focus of the app has been very bespoke in nature. There are also about 100 pages of static content on the frontend which I've currently got setup as static pages which are managed with some dynamic controls and site maps for navigation, breadcrumbs etc.

I made a fatal mistake in not architecting in a CMS from the outset and am now looking at the best way to bring a simple CMS into the site structure which will

a.) allow for simple content management - basic wysiwyg for content and to control page title and menus b.) still integrate nicely with my custom app - The focus of the site is obviously bespoke custom app (i.e. even if it takes a lot of time to plumb in a CMS now, it would take a lot longer to port my custom logic to an off the shelf CMS or framework!)

Does anyone know of a nice ASP.net CMS which will integrate nicely with my current dynamic site with minimal disruption

I don't want to go down the road of completely re-architecting my app structure!

Ed

Answer 1

take a look at N2, it is very light and might be just what you're looking for.

Answer 2

Take a look at Umbraco, but the CMS system which allows you to not throw away virtually all the code you've done so far probably doesn't exist... :(

So either throw away everything you've done so far (I would do that) or just continue working down the path you're at and reinvent the wheel...

To believe that you don't have to throw all your existing logic when putting in an Off the Shelf CMS is frankly just not realistic... :(

PS! Lots of people will probably tell you to use DotNetNuke, and sure DNN is BIG, HUGE in fact. But Umbraco is better...!