Building Websites with VB.NET and DotNetNuke 3.0

Key Features

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

Book Description

DotNetNukeDotNetNuke is a free, open source evolution of Microsoft''s celebrated ASP.NET reference implementation, the IBuySpy Portal Solution Kit. DotNetNuke began life as a framework for constructing data-driven intranet and Internet portal applications. It has now developed into an advanced web content management system with tools to manage a dynamic and interactive data-driven website. If you work with ASP.NET and VB.NET, and want an interactive website, with forums, news and image management, where visitors can register, participate and contribute to your site, then DotNetNuke is the ideal solution for you. This book is your indispensable guide to creating content-rich websites with DotNetNuke 3.0, as quickly as possible. The first part of this book gives 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 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. Enhancing your site with forums and ecommerce functionality, creating multiple sites and deploying your site round off the book. You will master each of these topics as you leap into the development of a DotNetNuke 3.0 site.

What you will learn

This book will give you the skills to create and manage DotNetNuke websites as quickly as possible. You will:

Install and configure DotNetNuke

Use the standard modules

Understand the core architecture of DotNetNuke

Explore the inner workings of DotNetNuke modules

Extend DotNetNuke with by creating powerful custom modules

Create your own skin using a HTML Editor

Learn about the new Whidbey style Provider Model

Find out about where and how to host and deploy your site

Who this book is 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. The new features of DotNetNuke 3.0 are discussed extensively, so even if you have worked with previous versions of DotNetNuke, you will find something new.