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Chapter 1: What is DotNetNuke?
From company intranets to mom and pop shops to local chapters of the 4H club, most organizations are looking to have a presence on the World Wide Web. Open-source web portals answer this demand by providing easy to install and use websites that are not only extremely functional but also free. Whether it is to sell services or to have a place to meet, web portals play an important part of communications on the Web.

In this chapter, we will first discuss what web portals are and what successful web portals have in common. We will explore different types of open-source web portals and discuss why we selected DotNetNuke for our project over other available portals. In addition, we will cover the benefits gained by using an established program as a framework and the benefits of DotNetNuke specifically. We will then introduce Coffee Connections, our fictional client. We will get a brief overview of Coffee Connections, determine the specific requirements for its website and gather the requirements using user stories. This will give you a general overview of what to expect from this book and how to best use it depending on your role and experience with web portals and Visual Basic .NET.

• Chapter 1: Table of Contents:
  
  • Open Source Web Portals 
    • What Is a Web Portal?
    • Common Portal Features
    • Why DotNetNuke?
      • PHP-Nuke
      • Metadot
      • Rainbow
      • DotNetNuke
    • Benefits of Using an Established Program
  • DotNetNuke Community
    • Core Team
    • The DotNetNuke Discussion Forum
    • The Bug Tracker
    • DotNetNuke Project Roadmap Team
  • The License Agreement
  • Coffee Connections
    • Determining Client Needs
      • What is a User Story?
      • Advantages of Using User Stories
      • Coffee Connections User Stories
  • Summary

   

BOOK DETAILS   Paperback, 280 pages Released: March 2005 ISBN: 1904811272 Authors: Daniel N Egan

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
1: What Is DotNetNuke
2: Installing DotNetNuke
3: Users, Roles, and Pages
4: Standard DotNetNuke Modules
5: Host and Admin Tools
6: Understanding the DotNetNuke Core Architecture
7: Creating Custom Modules
8: Creating DotNetNuke Skins
9: Enhancing Your Portal
10: Deploying Your DotNetNuke Portal
11: Creating Multiple Portals
12: Implementing the Provider Model in DotNetNuke
Index
 

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