Best free (or cheap) ASP.NET based CMS for a club/association?

Posted by marc_s on Super User See other posts from Super User or by marc_s
Published on 2009-11-22T18:26:59Z Indexed on 2010/05/04 0:28 UTC
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I've been looking for a simple, intuitive ASP.NET based CMS to handle my club/association site.

It should be

  • based on ASP.NET so I can add some extra specific pages
  • offer a membership system, e.g. I want to be able to define members which can e.g. comment posts, while anonymous users can only read (no active participation)
  • have features like news, forums, blogs, picture gallery
  • be simple and easy to use

I've been looking at

  • GraffitiCMS: so far my favorite, but it has no forum, and no membership system, and no future, it seems - no development whatsoever in over a year :-(
  • Sitefinity: had extreme trouble even getting it installed, and when it's finally up and running, I find it overly complicated and not intuitive at all
  • Umbraco: same problem - hard to install, hard to get up and running, the intro videos on their site are only available to paying subscribers (what's up with that deal???).....
  • DotNetNuke: seems like a major overkill
  • Community Server: seems like a major overkill - and seems to be more and more commercial, only

Any others I've missed that I should have definitely looked at ??

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