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Building Websites with DotNetNuke 5

By : Ian lackey, Michael Washington
Book Image

Building Websites with DotNetNuke 5

By: Ian lackey, Michael Washington

Overview of this book

<p>DotNetNuke is an open source Content Management System and web application framework. It has taken the Microsoft world by storm and now at version 5, its community has grown to over 200,000 users. Revised and updated for DotNetNuke 5, this renowned book is your indispensable guide to creating content-rich websites with DotNetNuke, as quickly as possible.<br /><br />With this book in hand, you will be able to get your DotNetNuke website up and running. Concisely written and with clear explanations, this book covers installation, administration, deployment, site creation and all of the basic built-in DotNetNuke modules. For developers, it also covers the core architecture and custom modules, including module development using Linq to SQL and Silverlight, to give you the skills to customize and extend your site.<br /><br />The book starts off by giving you a deep understanding of working with basic DotNetNuke sites, guiding you through the features and giving you the confidence to create and manage your site. After that, you will journey to the heart of DotNetNuke, and learn about its core architecture. Always concise, relevant and practical, you will find out what makes DotNetNuke tick, and from there, you will be ready to customize DotNetNuke. Developers will enjoy the detailed walk-through of creating new custom modules. Special emphasis is given to using Linq to SQL and Silverlight to invigorate your module development.<br /><br />You will master all of this as you leap into the development of a DotNetNuke 5 site!</p>
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Building Websites with DotNetNuke 5
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
Preface

Using the Site Wizard


The Site Wizard will allow you to customize your site by walking you through an easy to understand step-by-step process. To access this wizard, sign in as an administrator and navigate to the Site Wizard page under the Admin menu.

You will now be at the first step in the Site Wizard. The first page simply displays an overview of the purpose of the site wizard. Clicking the Next button will take you to the next step. This page asks you if you would like to apply a template to your site. If you did not do this when the site was set up, you can accomplish this now. If you already have content on your site, it will ask you how you want to deal with duplicate entries. For example, if you already have a home page with modules and the template has a home page with modules, how would you like to resolve this conflict? You have the following three choices:

  1. 1. Ignore: This will ignore any items that already exist on your site.

  2. 2. Replace: This will replace anything on your...