In this chapter, we have successfully created three controls to allow our users to express their opinions about various content areas of our site. We built a tagging control that allows us to take in tag keywords as well as display all the tags for various levels of our site from specific records all the way out to the entire site. We built a rating control that allows us to configure many options per system object for individual ratings which are then averaged across all ratings and displayed as a general score. Finally, we created a commenting control so that our users could express very specific opinions regarding any of our content items.

With these new user controls, we have created new avenues of interest for our users. We now have the ability to allow users to touch just about anything in our system. In addition to allowing users to provide input, we have also created another avenue of interest for our users who enjoy reading and seeing other users' inputs. We have come a long...