Best free (or cheap) ASP.NET based CMS for a club/association? - Super User most recent 30 from superuser.com 2010-03-22T13:10:52Z http://superuser.com/feeds/question/73953 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/rdf http://superuser.com/questions/73953/best-free-or-cheap-asp-net-based-cms-for-a-club-association 0 Best free (or cheap) ASP.NET based CMS for a club/association? marc_s http://superuser.com/users/1528 2009-11-22T18:26:59Z 2009-11-23T08:22:20Z <p>I've been looking for a simple, intuitive ASP.NET based CMS to handle my club/association site. </p> <p>It should be</p> <ul> <li>based on ASP.NET so I can add some extra specific pages</li> <li>offer a membership system, e.g. I want to be able to define members which can e.g. comment posts, while anonymous users can only read (no active participation)</li> <li>have features like news, forums, blogs, picture gallery</li> <li>be simple and easy to use</li> </ul> <p>I've been looking at</p> <ul> <li><strong>GraffitiCMS</strong>: so far my favorite, but it has no forum, and no membership system, and no future, it seems - no development whatsoever in over a year :-(</li> <li><strong>Sitefinity</strong>: had extreme trouble even getting it installed, and when it's finally up and running, I find it overly complicated and not intuitive at all</li> <li><strong>Umbraco</strong>: same problem - hard to install, hard to get up and running, the intro videos on their site are only available to paying subscribers (what's up with that deal???).....</li> <li><strong>DotNetNuke</strong>: seems like a major overkill</li> <li><strong>Community Server</strong>: seems like a major overkill - and seems to be more and more commercial, only</li> </ul> <p>Any others I've missed that I should have definitely looked at ?? </p> http://superuser.com/questions/73953/best-free-or-cheap-asp-net-based-cms-for-a-club-association/73977#73977 1 Answer by Mystere Man for Best free (or cheap) ASP.NET based CMS for a club/association? Mystere Man http://superuser.com/users/6968 2009-11-22T19:54:07Z 2009-11-22T19:54:07Z <p>You might find a few sites interesting:</p> <p><a href="http://www.cmsmatrix.org/" rel="nofollow">CMS Matrix</a></p> <p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%5Fof%5Fcontent%5Fmanagement%5Fsystems" rel="nofollow">List of content management systems</a></p> http://superuser.com/questions/73953/best-free-or-cheap-asp-net-based-cms-for-a-club-association/74168#74168 1 Answer by datatoo for Best free (or cheap) ASP.NET based CMS for a club/association? datatoo http://superuser.com/users/14596 2009-11-23T08:22:20Z 2009-11-23T08:22:20Z <p><a href="http://www.dotnetblogengine.net/" rel="nofollow">dotnetblogengine</a> is pretty simple to setup and use there are a number of extensions</p>