What .net CMS with forum, eCommerce and multilanguage support would you reccomend?

We use Kentico for most of our clients. They have a free edition that has a few limits on it of course, but still does a lot.

We use Kentico for most of our clients. They have a free edition that has a few limits on it of course, but still does a lot. It's quite extensible and all .

Net based. A good amount of the source code comes with the most basic versions, and full source code is available for purchase. There is a steap learning curve if you really want to customize it as a web developer.

But it is really easy for the end-user to learn. We have clients that don't know the difference between a Word DOC and a PDF that end up putting some fairly professionally looking content even though they have no idea how they're doing it. :) Our "training" meetings usually last about an hour or two tops, with usually about 3 or 4 follow-up phone calls.

The rest they pretty much run with themselves while we collect hosting fees...

Ektron CMS .net" rel="nofollow">400.net 7.6 is pretty good -- excellent general CMS, great social networking and multilingual support, and now coming out with eCommerce. It's also a lot cheaper than most of the alternatives. Oh yeah, it's .

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Found this thread (very useful), and eventually ended up at CMSMatrix. A CMS search engine that includes detailed features for each CMS, and you can compare up to 10 side by side.

I agree. I've used that matrix several times, it is a fantastic resource. – Mike at KBS Apr 21 '10 at 16:45.

DotNetNuke - it's the most widely used . Net CMS and has a huge community of coders that modify it.

2 As the poster said, DNN is a pain so he's probably not going to use it. It's not really flexible in multilanguage either, at this moment. – Casper Oct 1 '08 at 14:10.

If you want to go insane, try DNN. I am insane now, and went for mojoPortal instead. It seems to cover your requirements and it is a breeze to set up.

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The author specifically complained about DNN; I'm guess they've heard of it and rejected it as an option already. – Jon Adams Nov 26 '11 at 13:25.

Sitefinity has a fully functional Community Edition. This product is completely free. The only limitation is workflow is not included (meaning you can't roll-back to previous versions of a page or implement an approval process for content).

There is also a "Powered by Sitefinity" logo that will appear at the bottom of your web site. Other than that, the product is fully functional and there are no hidden 500 page or 10 user limitations you'll smack into given time. You can use Sitefinity Community Edition for personal OR commercial web sites.

Some additional information can be found here: sitefinity.com/support/forums/support-fo... Sitefinity doesn't currently have a plug-n-play eCommerce solution. There are a number of efforts building on this front though. Several developers have been able to plug their own eCommerce systems into Sitefinity.

I like what I have seen in SiteFinity thus far as I've been evaluating it. But the lack of any kind of e-commerce capabilities is really bizarre to me, and a serious gap that should be plugged. It is the one reason why I'm considering some other solution instead.

– Mike at KBS Apr 21 '10 at 16:48 There is a Sitefinity Partner that has a very full featured e-commerce module - mallsoft.com/ecommerce. Your point is still well taken though. – Gabe Apr 22 '10 at 15:44.

I vote for Umbraco, they just released a new version with Life Editing and more nifty things! I worked with Umbraco for 2 years now and I'm very pleased with it!

Kooboo is a relatively new player in the CMS arena. In my opinion, Kooboo is best-suited as a developer application platform. It isn't the kind of CMS that you install and just drop a whole bunch of content in.It seems to work best, at this stage anyway, as a basic starting-point for customized applications created by developers.

Cuyahago project is a great CMS project. It has the best architecture design you can find among open source CMSs. You should take a look before make a decision.

Take a look at sitecore.net , they have stunning support, awesome architecture from the ground up and fully . NET with no external dependencies and supports multilingual options natively.

I wanted to try out AxCMS.net for some time, but didn't have the time so far. It seems to have everything you need.

The only CMS I've heard good things about is SiteFinity from Telerik. My company evaluated it temporarily but decided to go with Joomla instead, primarily due to cost concerns. However, we do use the Telerik RAD Controls within one of our projects and I must say I'm extremely impressed with them.

I would, however, avoid the Ektron CMS. We've had nothing but bad experiences with it, one after another. Their customer support is atrocious, I've had co-workers spend multiple hours at a time on hold, and rarely have we gotten answers from the first level support guys.

The web interface is slow and buggy, un-usable in IE(I know that isn't really saying a whole lot). The document management system handles Word documents in the most bizarre fashion. There is no easy way to just straight up replace a document.

However, this is possible with every other file type hosted on our server (PDFs, PPT, etc...). Every single one of our programmers and content editors despises that CMS. So much so that our IT Manager has made the decision to replace all our Ektron based websites with Joomla.

Yes, it was actually cheaper to hire a PHP developer and move all the content by hand (due to the completely different content structure) from Ektron to Joomla, than it was to continue using Ektron. Beware and stay away.

IMO, You should go with dotnetnuke. Because you can do DotNetNuke Development very easily because you are .net developer. I can also help you with your stuff as I am programmer too...

As the poster said, DNN is a pain so he's probably not going to use it. It's not really flexible in multilanguage either, at this moment. " -@Casper – Jon Adams Sep 21 '11 at 23:18.

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