Whether you've never programmed your own Web site before or you are an experienced ASP.NET developer, you'll find DotNetNuke and this book have something to offer you. You'll get started with invaluable hands-on insight for installing DotNetNuke on the server and then move on to developing and administering portals created with DotNetNuke. Written by the creator and programmers of the DotNetNuke project, the book discusses operating a DotNetNuke portal.

You'll see how DotNetNuke gives you a flexible architecture for rapidly developing Web applications and you'll find ways to extend the portal framework by developing modules that plug into DotNetNuke. Step-by-step instructions to administer DotNetNuke in various real-world scenarios will help you save time developing your own DotNetNuke ASP.NET sites.

What you will learn from this book:

• How to easily develop a dynamic content managed Web site Management of user membership and permissions
• Other features you can add to a DotNetNuke site including discussion forums, RSS feeds, calendars, and more
• How to instantly change your Web site user interface with skins Techniques for hosting multiple Web sites from a single account with the multiple portal capability

Who this book is for:

 Web developers or administrators who have never used ASP or ASP.NET can use this book to create their first ASP.NET portal site with no programming skill required.

Experienced ASP.NET developers can use this to create ASP.NET sites quickly and efficiently using DotNetNuke.

Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day.

They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education for new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.

DotNetNuke is a free, open-source evolution of Microsoft's IBuySpy Portal Solution Kit. DotNetNuke began life as a framework for constructing data-driven intranet and Internet portal applications. It has now become an advanced web content management system with all tools you need to manage a dynamic and interactive data-driven website.

The first part of this book gets you working with basic DotNetNuke sites, guiding you through the features and giving you the confidence to create and manage your own site. After that, you will journey to the heart of DotNetNuke, and learn about its core architecture. From there, you will learn how to customize DotNetNuke sites through skinning and creating custom modules.

Finally, you will learn how to enhance your site with forums, create multiple sites, and deploy your sites to a web host. You will master each of these topics as you leap into the development of a DotNetNuke 3.0 site.

What you will learn from this book: * Installing and configuring DotNetNuke * Using the standard modules * Understanding the core architecture of DotNetNuke * Extending DotNetNuke by creating powerful custom modules * Creating your own skin using a HTML Editor * The new Whidbey-style Provider Model * Where and how to host and deploy your site

Who this book is written for: This book has been written for both the beginner wanting to set up a website and also ASP.NET developers with a grasp of VB.NET and access to Visual Studio .NET. No prior knowledge of DotNetNuke is assumed.

From the Publisher

A practical guide to creating and maintaining your own website with DotNetNuke, the free, open source evolution of Microsoft's IBuySpy Portal Create and manage your own website with DotNetNuke Customize and enhance your site with skins and custom modules Extend your site with forums and the best of third-party add-ons Complete coverage of setup, administration, and development

*Written by the DotNetNuke creators and core development team, this updated bestseller covers the new DotNetNuke 4.0 for ASP.NET 2.0
*In less than a year, the DotNetNuke user base has more than doubled and it is expected to triple in size over the next twelve months
*Coverage includes new features such as support of Web farms and using DotNetNuke in shared hosting settings such as GoDaddy and Pipex
*Includes a chapter about the evolution of this open source product, Microsoft's support and role, and lessons learned in open source projects
*Addresses installation and portal administration, host administration, developing DotNetNuke modules, designing a DotNetNuke portal with skins, and scaling DotNetNuke