Community websites - getting to grips with engagement

Community has been all the range for a while now - Facebook, Bebo and the like have all changed the way in which we engage with each other and make new friends.

On the website design and development side of the business we have been extending DNN (Dot Net Nuke) to allow us to build community or web 2 sites for a range of clients. Some building brand new businesses some enabling the community they already have. It's been an interesting experience as we see ourselves as sofware developers getting to grips with the needs of an ever changing community.

Web development in Scotland – we use DNN

The web development package we use is the unlikely named DotNetNuke – DNN. It’s written in .Net and as we are very experienced in Microsoft .Net development it made good sense. We have extended it significantly to add in lots and lots of extra functionality and capability.

Although a Microsoft based CMS it’s an open source package – BSD. That makes it a great platform to use are there are lots of experts out there.