DNN or Dot Net Nuke

DNN or Dot Net Nuke is supposed to be sort of an intranet in a box.

It is supposed to make updating your site easy, even if you don't have experience making web pages.

Well what it does is

1. make updating the site easy as far as new pages and text changes
2. creates havoc when you eventually move to a new version of DNN
3. Usually you end up with an ugly site that isn't so friendly with the search engines
4. You end driving your web designer or programmer nuts, since things he can do really easily are extremely difficult in DNN
5. Every other thing you need to do has to be in the DNN way, instead of the more common, ordinary way and every time you turn around you have to buy and install a module. The modules are not user friendly to setup or use, so back to number 4.

In the end you save money if you want to update an ugly site yourself without a web designer.

If you have a web site that keeps growing and getting more and more features, you probably will end up spending alot more money to pay a programmer or web guy to make things work the DNN way, which is just plain much harder than it should be.