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Building an Awesome Community Web Site

Some time ago I started playing with the idea of organizing an Open Source project to build a CMS.

It generated a lot of interest, but the “expectations” seemed overwhelming to me. NETOOP is not dead, I still plan to build it but I intend to build version one myself (On MVC) and release it as FREE source.

In the mean time, I’m planning what content to build for 2010 and have decided to do a collection of projects based on building a great community site.

I’m going to write the code and record videos detailing the implementation or the parts.

I hope YOU will suggest and discuss features with me here on my blog! I will release the code as FREE/MSPL at different milestones.

The “design” that I’m starting with is live at www.MMARingside.org

MMSRS_001

It’s currently deployed on .NET 3.5 on Web Forms.

  • I’ll be updating to ASP.NET 4 very soon.
  • I will be doing a MVC version.
  • As much code as possible will be modular and transportable.

The first features I’ll be working on are…….

  • Add ASP.NET Membership System
  • Add Roles
  • Add CUSTOM Profile System
  • Add Daily Notice Admin Editor (Admin Only, Rich Text Editor)

Please share your thoughts and feature ideas and don’t worry if MMA is not your thing.

I just chose a sports application so we could have fun with rich media features !!!!!

 

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» Comments

  1. florim maxhuni avatar

    Cool design and look forward the publication of videos.

    florim maxhuni — January 5, 2010 12:44 PM
  2. Cris avatar

    I'm still waiting for it. Happy to hear it is not dead.

    Cris — January 5, 2010 1:02 PM
  3. Esteban avatar

    Go Joe!

    Always a pleasure reading your blog.

    Regards,

    Esteban.

    Esteban — January 5, 2010 1:49 PM
  4. Anthony Grace avatar

    Why not leave is as Web Forms??

    Anthony Grace — January 5, 2010 5:47 PM
  5. Scott avatar

    Artisteer templates ftw!

    Scott — January 5, 2010 6:15 PM
  6. Adil avatar

    Thank You very much

    Adil — January 5, 2010 7:20 PM
  7. Mohammed M avatar

    Great to hear that one of my suggestions if it possible to add support of dynamic controls (Modls, plugins,..)

    so when I complete my personal project Dynamic survey I could convert it into Model that could integrated into this community site.

    and good luck with that

    Mohammed M — January 5, 2010 10:51 PM
  8. Hima avatar

    Nice idea . All the best

    Hima — January 6, 2010 1:38 AM
  9. Umer Rasheed avatar

    I like the idea of porting it to MVC :-) all the best and have fun

    Umer Rasheed — January 6, 2010 5:07 AM
  10. Ann| link building service avatar

    awesome stuff porting to MVC is neat

    Ann| link building service — January 6, 2010 7:39 AM
  11. Shoriful Islam avatar

    hmm nice idea, how could someone play with u?

    Shoriful Islam — January 6, 2010 8:06 AM
  12. kw avatar

    Will you also have the completed web forms site available for download after/before you port it to MVC? I am still trying to get skilled with the web forms. When the web forms version of this is completed it would great a great source for ideas

    kw — January 6, 2010 9:12 AM
  13. WarNov avatar

    I really like the idea of creating the MVC version. When will you start it?

    WarNov — January 6, 2010 9:37 AM
  14. EvanLarsen avatar

    Blood red! very nice touch.

    Could you add globalization/localization to your site? that would be totally cool because I'm trying to build something similar in MVC but I've never done anything with Glob/Loc and would like to see your take on it.

    Awsome looking site, btw

    EvanLarsen — January 6, 2010 10:12 AM
  15. Salman Farsi avatar

    Hi,

    I would like to code with you for MVC version. I hope it reduces your burdon and time to complete.

    Regards

    Salman Farsi — January 7, 2010 1:30 AM
  16. Visual C# Kicks avatar

    Looking forward to it, I like the red design

    Visual C# Kicks — January 7, 2010 3:45 PM
  17. Joey Samonte avatar

    I thought it was dead too, I hope you can focus on discussing on the design of the domain model. :)

    Joey Samonte — January 7, 2010 9:11 PM
  18. nitin avatar

    it would be nice if u could add support for other DBs like SQLite (for small websites). Mojoportal supports it too

    regards,

    nitin

    nitin — January 8, 2010 4:04 AM
  19. gurjeet avatar

    Thats really coo, I will wait for the source code of this app and will try to contribute.....

    gurjeet — January 8, 2010 6:44 AM
  20. AHMED avatar

    the project you are going to built is a mazing and i'm a begginer to asp.net and i found the best way to learn is to find a project to build.

    i'm following u, you are the best :)

    AHMED — January 10, 2010 1:52 AM
  21. JonW avatar

    Let a pro do the web design (or use a free template)

    - possible work with someone from sitepoint or smashing magazine

    (like using UX pattern; user acceptance testing etc)

    * Preferable use a css framework!

    - yui grids (suggested)

    - google blueprint (alternative)

    * use Yslow (web performance rules) to test the site (and fix the common asp.net perf. problems)

    * use tinyMCE (or other) as texteditor

    - incorporate image uploading with editor

    - prefarable multiple file upload at once ( existing with flash OR even build one using silverlight :D )

    like this one www.codeproject.com/.../FlashUpload.asp

    * use a pluggable javascript framework ( Jquery as instep) or even preferable an interface approach to use dependecy injection

    - use CDN on javascript (possible MS och alternative g**gle ;-) or an interface dep. injection approach on that also)

    .......

    Or stop reinventing the wheel and use an existing wheel and possible extend it.. like Umbraco

    (more webstandard approach than dot net nuke) ;-)

    JonW — January 10, 2010 12:42 PM
  22. Hasan avatar

    Nice Idea!! Joe

    Hasan — January 12, 2010 3:11 AM
  23. Casey Binks avatar

    Thanks Joe!!! it is really helping us to read more about asp 4

    Casey Binks — January 13, 2010 7:37 AM
  24. Predators FC avatar

    wow this is a really good place for information, you just got bookmarked =]

    Predators FC — January 15, 2010 2:49 PM

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