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While we believe technology should never dictate your strategy, the reality of legacy or existing architecture often plays a major part in guiding the direction of designing cohesive software experiences. We build with intention with an aim for organizational growth, collaboration, and operational health, no matter the tech stack.

Open source projects come with many pros, such as cost-effectiveness, flexibility and customization, and community collaboration, but they also can run into some challenging cons like lack of dedicated support, strain on maintainers and volunteers, as well as the amount of time it takes to design, develop, and test to release changes and improvements.

When working within a CMS system that gives a lot of freedom, it is important to instill guardrails and best practices to keep designs and content consistent and usable. Using design and content best practices together is the key to making pages more compelling and overall effective.

DNN Platform is a web application platform for .NET Framework which was started in late 2002 (under the name DotNetNuke). Engage has a long history of supporting and building on DNN and has created decades of connections with businesses that have built web-based solutions upon DNN. When you consider your organization’s investment in DNN, are you concerned about if you’re getting enough out of it? Let Engage’s experts help you explore what DNN is best for, what to expect from DNN in the future, and what other options you may want to consider.

One big benefit of DNN is its theme architecture which allows for the separation of presentation and content, giving web designers the ability to develop the structure and look and feel of the website. DNN comes with a couple of themes out of the box to get you started, however these are rarely the right fit and are generic on purpose. There are also many commercial themes, with pre-made design concepts and templates, but their “one-size-fits-all” approach often fails to deliver a good experience for a specific audience or are too off-brand.

DNN Platform is an open source web application platform with a strong security focus. Learn steps to take to ensure it stays secure over the long run.

DevOps is an approach to creating software which works to reduce the gap between coding and deploying, allowing the same team which created the code to deploy and monitor the application, generally through automating much of that deployment and monitoring process. In order to achieve the strong outcomes associated with teams practicing DevOps, the DORA Core model highlights building capabilities in the following categories: Climate of Learning, Fast Flow, and Fast Feedback.

DNN Platform (open-source) 10.3.2 is the latest stable version of the DNN CMS. It was officially released on May 5, 2026. Evoq is on 9.13.10, which was released on November 3, 2025 and is based on DNN platform 9.13.9.

We’ve been patiently waiting for the next major release of DNN, and it is finally here (DNN 10.0.0 was published on April 9)! This update will be more disruptive than others in the past, as the maintainers have taken this opportunity to remove features that have been deprecated since DNN 8, going back to January 2016. In addition to clearing some accumulated clutter from years past, DNN 10 offers a number of improvements for both administrators and developers.

Within your DNN site, each module has a menu for MODULE SETTINGS.  You access the module settings by going into edit mode and then on the module, hover over the gear wheel of the module and click on settings. Learn more about the different settings and what you do with them.

In order to edit existing content, you need to have editing access to the site.  That will either be an Administrator role or a specific content editor type role.  If you need editing access, you will have to reach out to your site's manager. Step 1 - Login Step 2 - Navigate to the page you want to edit, then click on the edit pencil icon in the lower left corner

DNN has the ability to assign roles to users, to create business-specific roles, and show/hide content based on those roles.  The three basic roles are Administrators, Registered Users, and Subscribers.  Administrators are your web experts who need access to the back end of things.  There is also Host/SuperUser access, which should be reserved for the website builder and expert developers.

We are going to cover Page Settings, Page Appearance and Page Permissions within DNN platform. The Licensed version, Evoq, has slightly different options, but the basics are the same. To access a page's settings, you can hover over the CONTENT icon and then click on Pages.

How do you add new content to a page?  DNN has two methods depending on if you are creating something from scratch or if you have a pattern that you want to mimic.   From scratch - you would choose the "ADD NEW MODULE" option Mimic a pattern - pick "ADD EXISTING MODULE" Here are the steps to do both.

DNN is a secure website platform, but no CMS stays secure without regular updates. A cautionary tale and what you can do to protect your website from being hacked.

Engage Software commemorates 20 years of growth, innovation and leadership.

Engage offers a primer on sharing DNN modules.

Web design experts, Brian Dukes and Anthony Overkamp, lead sessions from theming, to building secure ASP.NET applications at DNN Summit 2019.

DNN co-founder, Joe Brinkman, joins the development team at Engage Software. In addition to working with our clients, Joe will also help bring two new Engage products to market in 2019.

19th Anniversary celebration: continued growth in our client-base, skillset, product offerings, and partnerships.

The organizers of DNNCon have announced they are going to be holding the conference in Baltimore, MD. The event will take place on April 1-2, 2016. Here at Engage, we are very excited -- this will be the first DNNCon since November 2014.

A review of the latest report from BuiltWith®, the popular website profiler, reveals that the greatest migration of CMSs to the DNN platform is from Joomla to DNN, which may explain why you are reading this blog post. The answer to the question "How do I migrate from Joomla DNN" -- as is the case with most good questions -- is "It depends."

In 2008, Engage released our first commercial module, Engage: Publish, to a wonderful reception from the DNN community. Soon after, Engage created several more top-selling modules – committing nearly 7,000 man hours to their development. We were very successful at creating solutions that met system integrators’ needs and, hopefully, exceeded their expectations.

Today DotNetNuke has undergone a dramatic and long-awaited brand relaunch. DotNetNuke is now a thing of the past, enter DNN Platform, Evoq Content and Evoq Social. DNN Corporation Co-Founder and CTO, Shaun Walker, shares his insights.

At Engage Software, we are often asked about DNN upgrades, so I thought I would write out how to do a simple DNN upgrade as well as provide guidance on the suggested DNN upgrade path.

The folks at DNN Social competitor NewsGator have released the results of a survey of 200 of their existing clients at Fortune 1000 companies. The results, while biased, are intriguing.

This year’s winner of the CMS Critic People’s Choice Award for Best CMS for Small to Midsize Business is... DotNetNuke!

Engage is a top-tier technology firm. Though we're among the very best DotNetNuke developers in the world, our passion doesn't end at coding. We love being partners to our clients. We love to think alongside them about getting the best results from their projects. We love calling on our past experiences as marketers, business owners and ad agency creatives. And sometimes for all our efforts and all our energy we get emails like this one... 

True Value Company, one of the world's largest retailer-owned hardware cooperatives, has built an agile business platform for its network of thousands of individual stores using DotNetNuke® as a foundation. Leveraging DotNetNuke and an easy-to-use site management front-end built by Engage Software, each local store owner can instantly provision and update a customized website tailored to meet the needs of that store, while taking advantage of national marketing efforts and content. More than 3,000 individual store websites are now running on a single instance of DotNetNuke, making the job of coordinating branding, product information, seasonal content and marketing promotions simple and effective for True Value's central marketing team.