As a webmaster you have to be sharp at all times. You have to know what is happening on your website all of the time and you have to try and stay ahead of technology. That is the most difficult thing, let's take DotNetNuke for instance. It is a website application that you can use to build your new website. An application like this will make your business easier, especially if you have more than one website that you are looking after or that you need to build for other clients. Web hosting, however is a completely different ball game, this involve the use of servers and other technical things, so we will not cover that here. We will cover things like the new Dotnetnuke application and the ASP.net application below.



What you need to know first and foremost is that DotNetNuke, which is an ASP.NET application, is a CMS, which is short for Content Management System. A CMS is a framework, or structure that you can use to build your website in. With a Content Management System website you will not find a lot of HTML WebPages. Instead you will find the definition for the structure of the site, or the template, and all of the content that you input is held on a common database. You will then be able to use all of its modules for very specialized tasks like inserting images or words for a text based website, or setting up your very own online shop.

If you are a bit worried about the price for a system that can do so much you need not fret, the source code for DotNetNuke is open source, which means that they are free to use and distribute. Even ASP.NET is freely available from Microsoft. Though you should be careful about distributing, please read the fine print on the developer's website and packaging if any. When DotNetNuke was first released it was very easy to spot which website where made within its framework. As the years went by and new version where released, it became harder to spot the dotnetnuke creations. What made this possible was the ability to use different templates across one website, so you really no longer needed to stick to one style for one web space.

If you are a bit worried about what all of this means you need not be. You really do not need to be a very technical person, to use this system. You will be glad to know that there are help menus within the dotnetnuke system to help you whenever you become stuck.