Building Portals, Intranets, and Corporate Web Sites Using Microsoft Servers

Content Management Options

Content management products run the gamut from simple and inexpensive (or even free) to complex, powerful, and expensive. So it is within the Microsoft product pantheon, which provides three choices for content management.

First, you can continue in the tradition of custom content management and create your own system by building .NET controls along with a database repository to store the underlying content. This is the best choice if you are being paid by the hour and have an unlimited budget and schedule. You can tailor the system to fit your unique requirements.

The downside to the custom CMS is the same as for any other custom solution. It requires a significant amount of resources to design, build, and maintain ...