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Project: Content Management-Based Membership Association Site
Duration: 2+ Years Team Size: 1 Type: Outsourced

Technical Environment: DotNetNuke (3.x)

Brief Description: Brief Description: This site hosts a community of over 900 members participating in 35 SIGs.The project was done in partnership with an advertising, design and marketing communications firm. Their expertise in human factors, usability and information architecture was called upon in the design of the site. Stout's expertise in custom content management systems was called upon in the implementation.

Based on the templates provided by our partner, Stout implemented a CMS that included:

  • a browsable catalog showcasing member products
  • members only pages and information
  • discussion forums for SIGs and special member topics
  • public and private calendars
  • order forms for events, services and related items
  • multiple languages
  • custom coded DNN modules
  • custom coded DNN skins

An additional feature of the engagement was the production of semi-annual CDROM catalog from Web catalog. The vendor product catalog contains over 2000 items.

Stout provides ongoing maintenance for the site. Recently, Stout enhanced the site to accommodate two multi-byte language versions of the site: Japanese and Mandarin.

The following additional DotNetNuke modules were used:

  • Links skin object: (custom coded, based on DNN Links module) to handle menu display.
  • Articles/Categories Module : (customized open source, Efficion Consulting) to display articles, press releases and news. Modified to handle multiple languages.
  • MMLinks: (open source, Delisoft) to display multilingual content on pages and to control the display of SIG lists based on user security roles.
  • DSLocaleSelectorPA: (open source, Delisoft) to control the selection of user language.
  • Enterprise Events: (open source, customized) to display calendars, event lists and SIG calendars. Customized to support multiple languages.
  • XMOD, XMODDetailView: (commercial, DNNDev.com) to create and manage catalog listings.
  • SQLGridSelectedView: (open source, TressleWorks.ca) to select, format and display data from the database. Needed to create custom, drill-down catalog listings that XMOD would not handle
  • ActiveForums: (commercial, ActiveForums) to create SIG discussion areas.
  • BulkReg: (commercial, DNNWorks) used to import initial users and assign accounts, passwords and security roles

Buzzwords: .NET, C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server, MS Access, LINQ, Windows Forms, WPF, Web Services, Payflow Pro, DAL, Google Analytics