What Are Tags in DNN?
DNN stands for "DotNetNuke." DotNetNuke is an open source project on the Microsoft platform. It is a well-established web content management platform. As of July 2011, it powers more than 700,000 production web sites across the globe. DNN's open source CMS platform furthermore functions as a framework for web application development. DNNDaily is a website dedicated to providing information and links about news and blog posts produced DNN's Director of Training Programs, Chris Hammond. This website provides users with tags to facilitate the searching of posts.
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Tags
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On the front page of DNNDaily, users are faced with a large selection of tags. Tags are words used to capture the content of an article or post. For example, the tag "delete" links users to information on how to delete users in DotNetNuke. Tags are useful because they can significantly shorten the amount of time a user spends looking for a particular piece of information. It can also present users with additional helpful information they would not have come across if they had simply searched for the piece of information.
Sizes
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Some tagging systems rank their tags according to the amount of content associated with them. They do this by presenting tags with more content associated with them, using a larger font. DNNDaily uses this technique. As of July 2011, the tags "DNN" and "DotNetNuke" are the largest. This is not surprising, since most articles provided by this website are likely to mention the name of the project they are about.
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Examples
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Tags are listed in alphabetical order, starting with those based on numbers. A short list of tag examples includes "admin," "design," "development," "forum," "Paris," "news," "loading," "soft delete," "opensource," "users," "version," "travel," "presentations" and "user group."
Content
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When users click on a tag, they are confronted with a list of the articles and blog posts associated with the tag. The tag "Paris," for example, brings users to an article written by Christ Hammond about a Day of DotNetNuke planned to take place in Paris. The tag "soft delete" presents users with an article on the difference between soft deletes and hard deletes, and how to hard delete a user in DotNetNuke.
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