Guys

 

To assist my career, any of you built an Intranet? I know HTML and have dabbled with Sharepoint(tricky though!), but what software have you used?

 

Any links to any demo's if any?

 

Cheers

 

Mark. :duffer:

what will the intranet be used for buddy as what is the existing architecture, then i will get back to you or pm me.

Intranet is a usually single portal for employees of a company to do more efficient business processes that otherwise would be done with paper based systems. For example purchase approval can be really sped up by using signed adobe acrobat documents. Someone submits a capex approval with a PDF and the people who have to approve it pick up the PDF and digitally sign it and get it approved much quicker.

Also an Intranet can have health & safety and new employee information. They are very good if you work for a company that makes stuff and have ISO quality procedures.

 

Its a good chance to get managers on your side with IT initiatives. I am working on a Intranet for my company.

 

A lot of Intranets get neglected and fall apart over time if people in the business dont get or see any value from it for themselves.

An Intranet is just a company internal site so could really be anything you want. I have done a few but the most recent was using an opensource portal software called DOtNetNuke. We modified it to suit our needs so it was good as building a portal from scratch is a lotta work, especially if you want proper content management...

 

DNN is free...

 

HTH

Just make sure the company you do the Intranet for really knows what it wants from it, instead of it becoming a white elephant. The last two companies Ive worked for wanted an Intranet, because it was the thing to have.

They had no idea that it would involve a change in working culture and how procedures would have to be changed.

Therefore both projects failedin the long run, because the business didnt want to change the way the they did things. In the end they became little more that glorified telephone lists.

This applies regardless of the technology used.

HTH. :)

I'm a big fan of microsoft active server pages (ASP). Use them a lot in our intranet with many pages built up from content in access (or sometimes oracle) databases. Makes it very easy to update the content and keep the site fresh. I've written pages that query our call management system that have saved call centre supervisors hours of data compilation.

 

Have to agree with Bigbscan though - you've got to have a definate idea of what people want

 

David

most companies now are moving from asp to .NET because .NET provides more functionality etc. Remember ASP was an afterthought by MS, where .NET is an application suite in it's own right.

 

ASP still works, but can't stand up to the power of .NET.

 

Many people think that building an INtranet is all about pages and content. This is not true, it is more about business process and ensuring people get to see what they need to see rather than everyone seeing everything. This is where .NET comes in with it's content management.....

 

.NET is the new ASP and will be for years to come.

most companies now are moving from asp to .NET because .NET provides more functionality etc. Remember ASP was an afterthought by MS, where .NET is an application suite in it's own right.

 

ASP still works, but can't stand up to the power of .NET.

 

Many people think that building an INtranet is all about pages and content. This is not true, it is more about business process and ensuring people get to see what they need to see rather than everyone seeing everything. This is where .NET comes in with it's content management.....

 

.NET is the new ASP and will be for years to come.

You obviously have no idea, HTML is the way forward, everyone likes updating countless pages. Dont mess with any of that CSS rubbish either, far too much like time saving :tongue:

 

IMHO i would play around with .NET as it has been said before, it is mighty powerful !

I am a LAMP developer - Linux, Apache, MySql and PHP. PHP works really well with MySQL database server. And my LAMP server will thrash the pants of a Microsoft IIS server any day. And its all free.

 

But i am tempted to try .NET with a err borrowed copy of .NET studio. But then i am on the Microsoft treadmill and have to use all there products. So i would need a server with many GB of memory in a £4000 server for all these elephant services and applications to run. But with LAMP i can run it all on a £250 server from ebay - Proliant DL580 with 4 x Xeon 700mhz and 1GB of RAM.

An Intranet is just an internal network that uses Internet type protocols/applications/services etc. eg http/webservers

You obviously have no idea, HTML is the way forward, everyone likes updating countless pages. Dont mess with any of that CSS rubbish either, far too much like time saving :tongue:

 

IMHO i would play around with .NET as it has been said before, it is mighty powerful !

 

 

 

native HTML is fine for home web sites etc but you will find that content management sites use a portal, although still utulising HTML to create some pages but the application is .NET based. All of the biggest sites are portal based..i.e http://www.microsoft.com...

I am a LAMP developer - Linux, Apache, MySql and PHP. PHP works really well with MySQL database server. And my LAMP server will thrash the pants of a Microsoft IIS server any day. And its all free.

 

But i am tempted to try .NET with a err borrowed copy of .NET studio. But then i am on the Microsoft treadmill and have to use all there products. So i would need a server with many GB of memory in a £4000 server for all these elephant services and applications to run. But with LAMP i can run it all on a £250 server from ebay - Proliant DL580 with 4 x Xeon 700mhz and 1GB of RAM.

 

A misconception. I have run IIS and portal sites on a spec lower than above, while using SQL 2000 enterprise as the DB and IIS etc...

 

as I said above...MS have the edge and the biggest share of the large sites...

A misconception. I have run IIS and portal sites on a spec lower than above, while using SQL 2000 enterprise as the DB and IIS etc...

 

as I said above...MS have the edge and the biggest share of the large sites...

 

... most security holes & most frequent patching reigime too ... ;)

oh I agree, but lowest TCO....

Im not a zealous Microsoft basher. It's horses for courses. Work needed a new server so i got a Dell Poweredge 2850 with Windows 2003. Im a Linux fan. But my IT juniors dont have a clue with Linux. So fileserver, VPN is Windows 2003. But i do have a Linux server for doing all of the web and database stuff.

 

And i document what i do. Tis the tyranny of IT people that they walk away from systems no one else have a clue what to do with.

Yep, I agree, IT guys generally hate doing doco...it is pretty much all I do now since I took up the consultancy role...never mind eh!!!

Thanks for the info guys, isnt .NET a little tricky to learn? I'm not 100% sure exactly what it is but I come from 8 years of support/management background and always shyed away from programming.

 

M.

it is more difficult than say Frontpage etc but you get more from ML but other languages as well...

I have built a website using Frontpage so thats relatively straight forward.

 

So how do I get my hands on a copy of .NET? Is there a trial version?

 

it is more difficult than say Frontpage etc but you get more from ML but other languages as well...

this is an expensive suite of software...I had a copy somewhere in ISO format...will see if I can dig it out...