1.1 INTRODUCTION TO THE PROJECT
DNN is the leading Web Content Management Platform (or CMS) for Microsoft, powering over 700,000 production web sites worldwide. The flexible DNN open source CMS platform also functions as a web application development framework. Depending on your role within your organization, DNN provides powerful benefits to support your Web initiatives.
DotNetNuke started it's days as IBuySpy - an open source Content Management System written by Shaun Walker - from Perpetual Motion in Canada.
Shaun had been involved in the writing of an open source product that allowed non savvy people the ability to manage their websites, and provided a platform for developers who were using Microsoft as a development platform, the ability to extend this product further.
It was the preferred open source project on the asp.net website, a Microsoft resource centre for anyone who works in the Microsoft .NET framework.
Just before Christmas in 2002, DotNetNuke 1.0 was released and an invitation for anyone interested in participating in this project in a group/team environment to express interest and from there the DotNetNuke Core Team began it's days.
There are still some website running DotNetNuke 1 - although the earliest I have heard to date are 1.07 as of January 2005. And it's a big site, so even back 2 years ago, DotNetNuke was ahead of it's time.
It was, as far as I can see, it took part of it's name from the open source PHP product - PHPNuke - a Linux based, application written in PHP (those who use Microsoft would be familiar with ASP - Active Server Pages) But using the Microsoft .NET platform it became DotNetNuke.
DotNetNuke Community Edition
The DotNetNuke content management system is intended to allow management of websites without much technical language, and to be extensible through a large number of third-party apps to provide functionality not included in the DotNetNuke core modules (see modules ).Skins can be