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Charlie K.
CEO
Information Technology and Services
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
What do you like best about Evoq Content?
I have been using DNN since 2007 to create and manage multiple websites. It is a powerful and comprehensive tool which enables non-developers to build highly functional web sites. It has limitations and frustrations but it has remained my "go to" platform for the past seven years. I appear to be in good company as there are
Using DNN, I can produce a modern, subscription, website in a weekend. My site will contain an elegant skin, a graphic rotator, the ability for people to register, basic social media functions, a menu that changes as different users log in, a newsletter broadcasting ability, lots of content, pop-up windows, blogs and articles. That's a lot of functionality for free and for someone who is not a professional web developer. You can see an example of such a site at agilethinking.com. This site is built on the free edition of DNN Community supplemented by both free and purchased modules.
In considering DNN, it is important to realize that there is a large community of module developers. There are many free modules available (http://dotnetnuke.codeplex.com/) and a large number of paid ones as well (http://store.dnnsoftware.com/). A bit of web research will enable you to identify the reliable and creative developers whose modules make this platform especially flexible and powerful.
In short, DNN enables you to create a professional, highly interactive site without the need to write code. You can control the look and feel through the skin you use and enhance the functionality through purchased modules.
If you are more technical there are several rapid development tools available that will allow you to create your own custom modules (for example XMod Pro ) and if you are a developer (or hire one) you can code custom modules in C# or Visual Basic.
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What do you dislike about Evoq Content?
DNN started out as an open source project but like other open source products now has commercial versions. While the company has made good on its promise to continue developing the Community edition, the support often feels haphazard and spotty. Some bugs persist for a long time.
Some open source products seem to have a more active and welcoming user community than you will find at DNN. Within the DNN community, there is a bias toward developers. If you know how to code and are comfortable with .NET and Microsoft servers you'll be fine. If you, like me, are less technical you may find that some aspects of DNN are frustrating. This is not to suggest that the hurdles are insurmountable but some things you may want to do require you to change files on the server rather than being able to manage them from within DNN.
There is help available. If you are on your own, you can subscribe to DNN Creative or DNN Hero both of which produce instructional videos on a regular basis. A company like Managed.com will install, host and provide excellent service for your DNN site, And there are many consulting companies that will help you as well for a fee.
If you are comfortable managing your own server, you will have few problems. If not, you may need to seek help if you want to do more than the basics. However, even the basics will provide you with excellent functionality, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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Verified User in Information Technology and Services
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
What do you like best about Evoq Content?
Evoq Content (DNN as its known by for its open-source counterpart that it is based off of) is a very powerful open sourced CMS solution for anyone that is familiar with the .NET stack. Extending the framework through modules is straight forward, skin creation is relatively easy and aided through the use of skin objects, and a healthy user community base to reach out to for guidance or support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike about Evoq Content?
Evoq has been becoming slightly more bloated over the years, and uses a lot of system resources on the server side even when idle. It can also be very chatty with the database. The development team has been working as of late to improve the performance and hogging of resources though. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
AH
Verified User in Higher Education
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
What do you like best about Evoq Content?
I like how easy it is to use. The interface looks good. Building skins is very easy. We are able to host an unlimited amount of portals. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike about Evoq Content?
Lots of bugs are constantly discovered and added to the product through upgrades. We have used it for many years and have never had a bug free experience. Features are often broken or not working correctly in every update. Their tech support is very responsive though. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
AP
Verified User in Package/Freight Delivery
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
What do you like best about Evoq Content?
The support that the online community and Microsoft offers is good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike about Evoq Content?
Getting the site up and running, and then learning the back end interface is not as easy as other CMS systems such as Wordpress. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
AI
Verified User in Industrial Automation
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
What do you like best about Evoq Content?
Other than the fact that it is a CMS, there isn't much to like. It is just better than hand-coding.
I suppose because you can add and edit content using their rich-text window, that's something to like. But when you compare it to other CMSs on the market vs the price, that rich-text entry and edit is just a barrier to entry in this segment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike about Evoq Content?
It is very hard to use, and features and capability are always behind the CMS pack, let alone the user interface. It is hard so say what I dislike the most because I dislike almost all of it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
UT
Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
What do you like best about Evoq Content?
The user interface and UX as a whole is easy to use, even from a beginner's level Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike about Evoq Content?
Some features have long loading times and require a lot of clicks to get to, but overall does not affect the experience much Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
AG
Verified User in Government Administration
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
What do you like best about Evoq Content?
I like the simplicity the best because it makes it incredibly easy to upgrade content. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike about Evoq Content?
I dislike the simplicity just as much if not more than I dislike it. The way it is set up does not allow for the use of certain modules that are not approved by their network. It also does not like to always save your work when you finish. Also, when copying and pasting from a word document into the website, it completely messes up the formatting making one go back and spend more time reformatting the text. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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Anup K.
Director - Customer Experience & Results, Co Founder
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
What do you like best about Evoq Content?
1. Very modularized. Easy to build modules and deploy.
2. Most of enterprise CMS features are already built in.
3. Good for Dotnet based companies Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike about Evoq Content?
1. Very hardware intensive.. does not work on most of the SHared hosting. Requires VPS hosting. Minimum startup RAM is 1500MB.
2. Steep learning curve
3. Would have been great if the text editor was more powerful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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Matthew P.
Multimedia Special Projects Coordinator
Hospitality
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
What do you like best about Evoq Content?
Easy to switch to source code editor. Editor UI makes sense and is easy to understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike about Evoq Content?
Templates and modules can be cumbersome to work with, compared to other CMS. WYSIWYG editor is finicky. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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Marten v.
Senior Software Engineer Technical Lead
Information Technology and Services
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
What do you like best about Evoq Content?
1) The ease with which I can make a custom type. I was previously making modules using Christoc, which was fine, but now I specify a content type and make it instantly in the cloud.
2) This is a truly headless CMS, though using it as such takes a bit of setup. By making API calls, I will be able to skip making visualizers and keep my content completely separate from having to make pages.
3) For when I do need to make pages, the visualizers are a nifty way of showing this content - they are using the Shopify Liquid Content templating system which is a fully featured (if at times slightly odd) templating engine.
4) The DNN support is amazing, so different from other CMS' I have used in the past. I have bothered these poor people with so many questions and they have always been great.
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What do you dislike about Evoq Content?
These dislikes are temporary, solved by the product maturing to the stage where they allow unwashed peasants like myself into their content by direct API call.
1) Cost of being bleeding edge, I do not have an API key so I cannot use the EVOQ content without a visualizer right now. That ability drops with the 9.1.1 release, due out this week.
2) No inherent way to import content out of the gate. They have an import export tool coming but because of timing I will have to whip up something myself. When I get the key they have an example made with excel that I can use.
3) Minor gripe. I want objects to be able to reference themselves. As an example, if I was building a menu, I do not want a content type for level 1 another for level 2 etc - I want a content type menu-item which can have children of itself. Then I can easily build a menu. As I say, minor gripe but it has made me use the old DDRMenu module instead because I don't want a splattering of Content types for different menu levels. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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Nelson H.
Systems Administrator
Retail
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
What do you like best about Evoq Content?
note: the likelihood of recommendation is dependent upon the size of the environment in question. I have a "leaning" towards DNN being more applicable to smaller, one node(web head), environments. A very capable content management system for smaller environments, for sure.
It's quite easy to manage modules and specific page content. I have to admit, from a systems administrative perspective, I do not manage the content as other departments do, however. I deploy code through DNN and perform basic operations through the DNN portal, in conjunction with deployments, but our marketing team is much more involved in day-to-day management of the DNN content. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike about Evoq Content?
From my perspective and past experience, DNN management of a web farm of IIS servers is, to put it simply, a bit buggy. We have had, and still do have, consistent issues with having massive syncing between web heads after making small changes on the DNN portal. These result in negative customer experiences. To DNN supports credit, we have worked quite extensively on this issue, and I need to pick that case up again, as I set it aside some time ago to move onto other "fires". Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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