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I was wondering, is StartupNation using ExpressionEngine, Drupal, or another well known CMS?

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Partner at YoungGoGetter.com

Given Microsoft`s heavy presence here, I`m guessing the site uses something proprietary of Microsoft`s that probably costs a gazillion dollars to license. Were you looking for an open-source engine with similar capabilities?

-Paula

It`s all ASP.

Custom "homegrown" CMS on Microsoft platform (Windows, ASP, .NET, SQLServer database),

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Oleg Issers | StartupNation.com Web Team

50% of computer programming is trial and error. The other 50% is copy and paste.

I`m a php guy, and have always been a Wordpress/Vanilla fanboy, like what
we use on YGG, but I`m thinking about switching platforms.

Interesting that you`re using a custom ASP CMS (acronym overload). Have
you ever taken a look at Community Server? They seem to be backed by
Microsoft as well:

http://communityserver.org/

I`m leaning towards Drupal, seems to be the most promising.

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Partner at YoungGoGetter.com

Drupal is good. Have you ever looked at Ruby on Rails as well?

What about Joomla? Any good?

I am somewhat familiar with CommunityServer.  It`s a good product if you want to get a community-based website launched quickly "out of the box". 

CS uses all the same technologies that StartupNation is built on - Windows, SQL Server, ASP.NET.

We`ve considered it at one point, but didn`t feel it was the best fit for all the content here at StartupNation. 

 

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Oleg Issers | StartupNation.com Web Team

50% of computer programming is trial and error. The other 50% is copy and paste.

I`ve never dabbled with Ruby, Nikole.

I demoed Joomla a few months ago and was impressed by it`s feature set, but wasn`t blown away.  Seeing the roster of sites that use Drupal was the main selling point on making me consider it:

www.popsugar.com
www.theonion.com
www.typophile.com


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Partner at YoungGoGetter.com

Hersh -- my experience with Joomla is that getting it to produce valid code is such a chore you might as well program your own CMS from scratch. I personally don`t like it. But, if you`re up to the challenge, the back-office interface is very nice.

I prefer Textpattern for smaller sites: http://textpattern.com

Plone is a CMS geared for very large sites. I haven`t used it myself so I can`t vouch for it, but it seems to have an excellent track record: http://plone.org/

-Paula