Christmas is right around the corner and it is time to to make sure that Christmas wish list to Santa is ready to send, if not already on its way. Here is my list to Santa for DotNetNuke.

The next few months will be hectic as I reach into every trick I can to start building what I consider my masterpiece. Built on DNN and Telerik controls hopefully this will become a standard.

From http://xkcd.com/936/

One would think that by now, articles on this subject would be common but yet again and again I get asked, 'Can you build a Flash site for me?'. I still see sites that are a) built in flash and / or b) have image-heavy design, which is super irritating. Not to point fingers, but I've found that the most these sites tend to be for design agencies (showing off their skills) and for some reason bars and restaurants. There are millions of reasons why sites built in flash or image heavy are bad, here are my top 7.

Top 7 Reasons to build a text-based site

20% of the users disable Flash plug-ins, these movies takes forever to download (and so does the plug-in that plays it). Users are more-and-more moving towards mobile devices to visit website (the iPhone cannot read flash - and most likely never will) Many large corporations block installing flash on browsers. Journalists and members of the trade cannot easily copy information about your business if it's image-based or in flash,...

    Many of the best CMS systems allow site owners to modify the looks with skins or themes. CMS systems try to take a seperation of presentaiton and logic approach to building systems. Skins are the presentaiton layer and as such many times are geared at designers. After all everyone wants a pretty web site and they dont care (sometimes) how it looks/works underneath the hood, so to speak.     Hiring someone to create a CMS skin/theme can sometimes be a crapshoot. Will they use the right colors or make a nice use of my logo?  Will they capture my business the best in the design? Wouldn't it be great if lots of designers would compete to give you the best design they could? Well here is the solution! CMS Theme Market! ...

Recently had the good fortune of talking with Johnathan at Nerdwerx. Looking over his blog found this really interesting on CMS systems that makes a lot of sense for people looking for any type of CMS.

http://kickasterisk.com/why-web-design-agencies-want-to-sell-you-a-custom-cms