My solution works fine and has an history of more than 3million page a day...
but doesn't allow "extrem customized site design":-)

Have you looked at SiteFinity? (http://sitefinity.com/)

I haven't used it, but have great faith in and respect for the folks at telerik (small "t"), the company that makes it. Their ASP.NET controls are killer stuff.

Rainbow Project (C#)

I haven't used it, and I'm sure you have heard of it already (because you have used DNN).

The Rainbow project is an open source initiative to build a comprehensive content management system using Microsoft's ASP.NET and C# technology.

http://www.rainbowportal.net/Default.aspx

The more famous ones are:
Mambo
Joomla
(these are not dotnet, of course)

Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.


Mambo is one of the most popular Open Source Content Management Systems (CMS) on the web.

Pretty nothing beats CMS, but it is of course extremely expensive. I've also heard great things about RainbowPortal. Have a look at Dozing Dogs as well (recently acquired by Telligent).

Why can't subtext be a CMS instead of Yet Another Blogging Solution?

I'm just sayin'. DIY boyeee!

@Jeff: Because I want to keep it tightly focused for now. It does one thing and does it well. It's geared towards a particular usage.

Besides, I barely have enough time to work on Subtext as it is. Biting off such a large chunk of functionality is a lot to chew.

And I couldn't get it done quickly enough should I require a mature CMS system in the near future.

However believe me, the thought has crossed my mind.

@Haacked: Sounds to me like we need an Angel Investor or even better would be a rich benefactor to pay a few of us to work on subTEXT full time (at least for a while) just because he/she/they want the project to be a huge success and dominate the world! Well, at least the first part...

Ahh - we can dream, can't we!?!

Also, Is there a good blog application similar to WordPress or Movable Type for ASP.Net?

Keep dreaming Steve!

why you didn't think in dotnetnuke !!!

I use Cuyahoga, and it is very nice.

Axinom AxCMS - a german .NET Content Management System.

When I was looking to update my website I did some searching and found some others that were not DNN or Rainbow or CS and free. I've not used any of them.

http://www.sharpcms.net
http://www.umbraco.dk/

@Steve Harmon: In regard to the angel investor need, did you happen to read "The Philosophy" of AxCMS.net?

It is worth reading:
http://www.axinom.com/axcms_philosophy.AxCMS?ActiveID=6780

AxCMS.net looks pretty good. Has anyone else used it?

@Phil: does it have to be open source?

AxCMS.net is not open source afaik, but it is extensible (and free of charge).

Also, you can probably run stuff like Joomla and Mambo on Windows (with WAMP).

The two mentioned by Jilted are open source:
http://www.sharpcms.net
http://www.umbraco.dk/

@David: Nope, it doesn't. The reason I'm asking is that we have used DotNetNuke successfully for some of our clients.

But DotNetNuke may not be suitable for some of our potential clients. I'm trying to get a grasp of what alternatives are out there.

ADXSTUDIO CMS 2006 is a native ASP.NET 2.0 CMS. It has full support of master pages, membership/role/profile providers, and 40+ server controls. Very affordable commercial licensing.

If you can spend the money look into Sitecore... very impressive .NET solution
www.sitecore.net

My research led me to:

www.kentico.com
and
www.sitefinity.com

For the seemingly best pair of CMS systems.

Sitefinity is evolving pretty fast so it's definately one to watch.

Check out EpiServer [ http://www.episerver.com/en/ ]

I am surprised that noone has mentioned ektron.

They have a reasonably nice CMS. It has support for things that alot of others don't that are often needed in the enterprise (like the ability to setup workflows for translation services).

I'd take a (serious) look at umbraco (disclamer: I'm the founder!):
- Open source GPL (and a commercial license if you don't like the GPL)
- .NET 1.1 (also runs with 2.0 and v3 coming in september is .net 2.0)
- Generic datamodel
- Beautiful and extensive web client with full GUI for setting up data structures and types (you can actually develop in the browser if you like)
- Very active and friendly community
- Extensive use of XML and XSLT
- Extremely flexible layout engine (umbraco doesn't generate html by if self) where you can use any usercontrol or xslt

Feel free to mail me (nh AT umbraco dot dk) if you have questions...

/n

I second the call for Umbraco.. its open source (just 3% donation for commercial projects to keep the project developing), extremely flexible (definitely targeted towards developers who wish to extend the sytem, and make it work to their needs), and as NH mentioned, an active and friendly developer community.

Check it out - www.umbraco.org

Hi,

I'm a .NET beginner and would like to set up an ecommerce solution for my company.

I'm torn between Umbraco and Cuyahoga.. both seems to be really strong and well written.

Which one would be the best to receive my personal e-commerce solution ?

Thanx

In case you don't mind classic ASP, make sure you check www.quickersite.com, by far the most complete and powerful CMS ever written in ASP/VBScript. It beats many $$$ CMS, whether they are written in C#, VB.NET, PHP or any other technology.

Hi all. I'm currently looking at solutions right now after playing with Joomla for a few weeks. Joomla has some problems:
1) Probably the WORST and least responsive user community I've seen yet for any product
2) Base confusion as to what the product does, how it does it, and what's important. Most of the templates talk about "tableless design" and then leave the default "views" which use tables.
3) If you look at the underlying code, it's poorly written and poorly optimized for speed (which matters because PHP is interpreted). So it's not surprising that the end results are SLOWWWW...
4) I could go on, but this is not the right forum for it. Anyway...

I was excited about Dot Net Nuke until I tried out their website, which is broken in so many places that it left me wondering if I want to start with that.

And now I'm going to look at Umbraco. Looks like they have their stuff together, but I don't know how much is done and how much is doable... I really have simple needs, but Joomla was killing me and wasted so much of my time for very unimpressive results. Now I'm back to the drawing board again. It pains me to say it, but I really like .Net and GoDaddy makes it all cheap to implement.

Dan
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Seconded - Joomla is *TOSS*.

I'm starting to look at umbraco at the moment - it looks good so far. I've used EPiServer, and it was UTTERLY HATEFUL. I have now refused to work on any further jobs using it :)

I understand that this is a request for .NET apps, but I have to say, that for straightforward content management, I don't think that there is anything out there (at least in the open-source arena) that can compete with the PHP project, CMS Made Simple. http://www.cmsmadesimple.com - hands-down, it is the most straightforwardly conceived CMS out there. I've used PostNuke, DotNetNuke, Umbraco, and have even coded my own very simple CMS. Give it a spin and you'll be up and running creating HTML or CSS templates in an hour.

I've recently been working on a DotNetNuke project, and can definitely attest to the fact that it is absolutely more powerful than CMS Made Simple - but more power is not always the best way to accomplish a task. I find that anything CMS Made Simple can not accomplish, I'd rather code myself from scratch.

I suggest Umbraco and DotNetNuke.