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Working With Web Engine

The Web Engine framework has been developed by Wickerlight Engineering and DotNetNuke Corporation.  Developing your website on the Web Engine platform is valuable partnership between your company and Wickerlight Engineering. Wickerlight will work with you and your team to develop your ideas into tangible, flexible and easy to use web pages as well as manage your content.

Your company can be involved as much or as little as you wish in the development process. You have the option to use your own graphic designers, existing code, content, or development staff.

What Does Web Engine Do

Web Engine is a website development tool that can reduce the resources required for the development of your web project by using powerful code blocks, called “modules”.  The underlying technology is ASP.NET and it can significantly reduce maintenance and the upfront cost of website ownership while allowing you to grow your website at a pace that fits your business model.

Common maintenance tasks are made easier by the use of WYSIWYG ("What You See Is What You Get") interfaces.  For example: if you wanted to change a picture on your website, you login to your website and easily upload a new image and modifying the page.  If you can use Microsoft Word, you can use Web Engine.

Web Engine is also a powerful CMS that allows you to take advantage of content based tools like blogs, forums, articles, or events modules.  Using these different modules will allow you to generate fresh content for visitors and optimize that content for search engines.  Web Engine’s built-in SEO (Search Engine Optimization) support allows you to concentrate on creating and modifying your content.  Web Engine's automatic search tools will use your content to follow SEO best practice standards to help bring in more visitors to your site and improve your ranking in the top search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN.

Web Engine also has a powerful traffic analytics package that lets you analyze your websites performance on the internet.  You can view total visits, visits by geographic location, visitors per day, visitors by hour, how traffic gets to your website and what they do while on your site.

Check out the Module Road Map for a full list of modules.
 
Key Concepts
The Power Is In The Framework
 
Web Engine is a versatile web authoring tool.  It allows for the creation of powerful websites in a fraction of the effort.  A new website is created by using the established Web Engine framework and customizing every piece to meet the needs of your business, your customers and your staff.
 
What Is A Module?
 
A module is a self-contained component of a web-engine website.  Each module is well defined and tested to meet the needs of its users.
  • Blogs
  • Forums
  • Newsletters
  • Articles
See the full list of modules. 
 
Skin your module
 
Most modules are skinnable, which allows you to customize the look and feel (colors, layout, fonts, etc) of the module to fuse with the overall ascetic of your website.  Existing modules are NOT closed for further development.  If you have functionality that is not met by the existing module set, a new module can be created or old modules can be modified to meet the demand.
 
Content Management
 
The Web Engine CMS is designed to simplify the publication of Web content to Web sites.  In particular it allows content creators to submit content without requiring technical knowledge of HTML or the uploading of files.
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