You may have noticed Dot Net Nuke on this web site. Dot Net Nuke is an open source web portal framework written on the Microsoft .Net platform. I know that some people might say "Microsoft! Open source!". Well Microsoft is not open source but the framework for Dot Net Nuke is. DNN just happens to be written in .Net.

As a .Net developer myself it made sense to go with what I know. The DNN community is very large and the framework grows very quickly. Out of the box I had access to the site, skinning, localization for international support, login and user support, blogs, forums as well as excellent Google integration. For me it was a no brainer to develop this site in DNN.

So what's next? I'm looking over some free skins to spruce the site up. A good source of skins (and modules) is snowcovered.com. The selection is amazing and the prices match. Between the 2 a web site can be setup for almost nothing but time.

Although I do my own hosting, DNN hosting can be had for as little as $4/month.

Well I'm off to do more tinkering. If you do stumble on this site, please let me know what you think.