Wednesday 16 January 2013

Joomla Vs DotNetNuke

Joomla and DotNetNuke are only two content management systems among many; however they are often regarded as best-of-breed for their respective technology stacks. DotNetNuke is an ASP.Net CMS written in Visual Basic, while Joomla makes use of the ever-popular PHP.
DotNetNuke  was created by Shaun Walker in 2002. Based on the 'IBuySpy Portal' code Microsoft released to promote their ASP.Net framework whereas Joomla  was established in August 2005 as a fork of the Mambo CMS project. Senior developers, including Andrew Eddie.
http://www.raybiztech.com/Joomla-CMS-Solutions.htmlCore Functionality: DNN offers extensive core functionalities in front of which Joomla seems a little weak. DNN offers features like database replication, event management, photo gallery and built-in forum system. Joomla also offers various functionalities that are not available in any other PHP based CMS, such as load balancing and a trash bin to ensure that articles are not accidentlly deleted. However, Joomla still falls short of DNN in context of their core functionalities.

Smart Joomla Trick



 My Joomla tricks is the loadposition command . This gives you the ability to load a module inside an article. Just think of all the neat things that you can do with this. Using this technique your articles can have all kinds of dynamic content inside them like weather module, rotating images, or a Twitter feed inside an article, whatever you can do in a module you can put in your article.


Step-1:  The trick simply calls a module into a position inside the article. Here's how you do it: In your Joomla cms administration go to the Module Manager (Extensions > Module Manager)
  • Make a new module in the module manager
  • Give the module a Title
Step-2:
  • Inside the module "Details" settings place your curser inside of the "Position" field and instead of picking a position from the drop down, create a unique position name that does not exist in the template. Do this by highlighting all the text that is showing in the "Position" and type your new position name in there. Type something like "mynewposition" (without the quotation marks) in the "Position" field. Now we will finish setting the other normal module parameter stuff:

How to Hide content in Kentico CMS

Kentico CMS 6.0 brings a great new feature that allows you to only display content to your editors . To enable this feature, simply follow these steps :

Step 1: Enable the "Check document permissions" setting

Go to Site Manager, Settings, and select your site. In the Content, Content management section find and enable the "Check document permissions settings

http://www.raybiztech.com/Kentico-EPCM-Solutions.html

According to the help, this setting does the following: