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Building Websites with the ASP.NET Community Starter Kit

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Building Websites with the ASP.NET Community Starter Kit

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Overview of this book

Microsoft's ASP.NET Community Starter Kit (CSK) is a powerful, freely available application that allows you to quickly create a fully featured community-driven website, complete with article and news management, downloads, forums, and user handling. Supported and tested by thousands of developers in the ASP.NET community across the world, the Community Starter Kit offers you the luxury of a scalable and extensible architecture, and the ability to brand your own site. This book will take you inside the Community Starter Kit, allowing you to harness its power for easily creating your own websites. The book is structured to help you understand, implement and extend the Community Starter Kit: Understand how the Community Starter Kit works. Build the skills to implement your own site. Develop the confidence to extend the system for your own needs. With this book, you will learn how to: Install and configure the CSK Find your way around the CSKs towering range of features Create and administer community websites Become familiar with the common CSK ASP.NET controls Customize your CSK site Discover the secrets of the CSK core architecture Explore the inner workings of CSK modules Extend the CSK by creating new modules Customize existing modules with Web controls Add an RSS feed to share your content with others Deploy your CSK website This book is for ASP.NET developers with a sound grasp of C# and access to Visual Studio .NET. This book uses the Visual Studio. NET version of the ASP.NET Community Starter Kit available from http://www.asp.net/StarterKits/
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
TrixBox Made Easy
Credits
About the Authors
Introduction
CSK Controls

Chapter 5. Customizing your Website

Packed with the knowledge from the previous chapters, we’re finally ready to build a complete and functional community website from scratch with a personalized look and feel.

Let’s first establish what functionality we want for the new website and how it should look. To make things easier and reuse the layout of an already existing website, we’ll create my personal community website. We aim to have it look like my current website, http://www.CristianDarie.ro:

Building this website with the CSK will make use of all the colorful but extremely powerful features of the CSK. The website we’re building needs to have the following features:

  • Home

  • About Me

  • My Books

  • Forum

We make use of CSK’s security features to allow only authenticated users to post messages on the forum or to add comments in the My Books section. This also opens the possibility of sending newsletters to people that ask to receive them.

In case you were wondering, CSK doesn’t have support for multiple...