Web Development
We develop all our websites using the DotNetNuke website platform or Content Management System (CMS) that allows our clients the ease and flexibility to edit and extend their own websites. We have found that it is critical for our clients to have easy ways to add pages, images, blog posts, and more to their website without our intervention. Using the DotNetNuke framework, we can build simple or sophisticated websites and then hand the controls over to you. There is no special software you have to buy, and learning it is easy.
Since 2004 we have committed to produce our websites using
DotNetNuke and it’s been a resounding success.
We leverage this open source content management system to provide you an inexpensive way to not only get started with your website, but to grow it out. It’s modular nature will allow you to implement technology that previously would have been very costly for a fraction of the price. You are no longer required to learn complex programming or HTML to update your own website. It’s as easy as logging on to your email and typing a message to create a new page on your website!
Contact us today to get started!
Support
We support, build and develop on DotNetNuke (also known as “DNN”). This also means that it doesn’t matter if we built it, or someone else did – we can help. We can convert your existing website to DotNetNuke and help you implement your own website. Because of our commitment to DotNetNuke and our level of expertise – we can get the job done for you.
Content Management System
DotNetNuke lets you create and edit content for your website allowing you to keep the site alive with up-to-date content and information. It is the perfect WYSIWYG (What You See is What You Get) website building tool that lets you rapidly create and manage your website. You have complete control of your web content and can add/edit/delete product information, build a new site section, alter your branding or launch a new marketing initiative in minutes. A set of primary modules are included with DotNetNuke and provide the basic functionality required to create an e-commerce system, and intranet, a public web site or a custom web application.
Lakeside Web Development is currently running DNN version 6.1.3.
Some of the more popular modules include:
HTML Editor
• Update content on your website instantly using only your web browser.
• Familiar Microsoft Word interface
• Upload photos from your computer
• Create links to other pages on your site
• bold, italic, underline, and more!
BLOG
• Write, publish, and syndicate your articles and news releases.
• Post easily with the Rich Text Editor
• Create multiple blogs/categories
• Allow visitors to post comments
• RSS syndication
USER ACCOUNTS / LOGIN
• Powerful user management and security features.
• Let visitors create accounts
• Control access to pages and modules
• Validate users by email and CAPTCHA
• Powerful role-based security
SEARCH
• Your site content is indexed and made searchable for you automatically every time you update your website.
• Website content is indexed automatically
• Relevance scores shown in search results
• A must-have for any professional website!
EVENT CALENDAR
• Publish events on your website and manage user sign-ups/enrollment and payment.
• One-time and recurring appointments
• Export appointments to Outlook/iCal
• Manage and enforce user attendance
• And more…
FORUM / DISCUSSION BOARD
• Build an online community and communicate with your visitors.
• Unlimited Groups, Forums, and Threads
• Email notifications, RSS syndication
• Attach files/photos to individual threads
• Much more…
NEWS / RSS READER
• Display syndicated news and other RSS feeds on your website.
• Display content from any valid RSS feed
• Customize the feed with templates
• Show titles only, or the full content
DOCUMENTS
• Upload files/documents and display them on your website.
• Upload files using your web browser
• Track # of downloads for each document
• Assign files to categories
• Change sort/display order
FAQ
• Help your visitors find answers to frequently asked questions.
• Unlimited question/answer pairs
• Easy editing with the Rich Text Editor
DNN STORE
The DNN Store out of the box allows you to sell products using either Authorize.Net or PayPal.
Features include categories, products (list and details), mini cart (with integrated controls), full shopping cart (including multiple ship/bill to addresses/recipients), reviews (including a review admin for approving reviews), order history (customer and admin viewable), and provider based gateways.
Some additional third party modules are available for a small fee that further extends the powerful platform. The most popular modules that we use on a regular basis include:
LIVE CONTENT (see our DNN Skins page for an example)
Live Content is the ultimate content presentation solution for DotNetNuke.
It can show Pictures, Videos, DNN Modules, Audio, Content, Flash, and External Content. It supports Multilingual Content, AJAX Uploads, Automatic Video Encoding, Automatic Thumbnails, Dynamic Image Resizing, Themes, Templates, and much more...
Live Content is also integrated with YouTube, Amazon S3, and Google Analytics.
LIVE WRAPPER
Live Wrapper is a DotNetNuke Module. Wrap not only Modules but Videos, Audio, Content, Flash, Snippets, and Frames (External Content). Break free from your skin's panes limitation and create flexible layouts with multilingual content.
FORM MASTER
This is a form creation module for the DotNetNuke® Content Management System. It allows an average user to create a wide variety of input forms comprising all the common Input Controls available for any web page quickly and easily. As needs become more complex, Form Master provides the advanced user with the flexibility and tools to include a high degree of functionality in one complete package.