Do you want to develop web sites without the help of a programmer? Lucky for you there’s DotNetNuke, a content management system that allows you to build and maintain dynamic web sites just by using a web browser. "DotNetNuke For Dummies" helps you get down to business and shows you how to create a user-friendly web site. You’ll find out how you can build and manage a flexible, versatile site with all the advantages an open-source application offers, use convenient modules, build a community, and save some money at the same time.This plain-English guide lets you discover how to: install, run, and troubleshoot DotNetNuke; change and customize portal settings; add and manage pages on your site; make your site look professional; deliver contents with Text/HTML; add news feeds, online surveys, and banners; interact with visitors through blogging, feedback comments, and forums; create an e-business; and, customize the look of your site with exciting components. This book features cool new modules that will meet every web site’s need, both commercial and personal.

With "DotNetNuke For Dummies", you’ll get up to speed with this wonderful online tool and create your own corner of the world wide web!

Get up to speed on DotNetNuke 4.4

Get down to business and create a site your customers can use

Power to the people who aren?t programmers! That?s what DotNetNuke is all about, and this book gets you plugged in. You?ll find out how you can create and manage a flexible, versatile Web site with all the advantages an open?source application offers, use the convenient modules, build a community, and save some cash in the process.

• Install DotNetNuke

• Control access by using roles

• Use modules and skins

• Enable users to add content

• Take advantage of open?source support

• Monitor your site?s statistics

Lorraine Young, Philip Beadle, and Chris Paterra are founding members of the DotNetNuke core team. Scott Willhite is on the DotNetNuke board of directors.

Do you want to develop Web sites without the help of a programmer? Lucky for you there?s DotNetNuke, a content management system that allows you to build and maintain dynamic Web sites just by using a Web browser.

DotNetNuke For Dummies helps you get down to business and shows you how to create a user-friendly Web site. You?ll find out how you can build and manage a flexible, versatile site with all the advantages an open-source application offers, use convenient modules, build a community, and save some money at the same time. This plain-English guide lets you discover how to:

• Install, run, and troubleshoot DotNetNuke
• Change and customize portal settings
• Add and manage pages on your site
• Make your site look professional
• Deliver contents with Text/HTML
• Add news feeds, online surveys, and banners
• Interact with visitors through blogging, feedback comments, and forums
• Create an e-business
• Customize the look of your site with exciting components

This book features cool new modules that will meet every Web site?s need, both commercial and personal. With DotNetNuke For Dummies, you?ll get up to speed with this wonderful online tool and create your own corner of the World Wide Web!

Do you want to develop Web sites without the help of a programmer? Lucky for you there’s DotNetNuke, a content management system that allows you to build and maintain dynamic Web sites just by using a Web browser.

DotNetNuke For Dummies helps you get down to business and shows you how to create a user-friendly Web site. You’ll find out how you can build and manage a flexible, versatile site with all the advantages an open-source application offers, use convenient modules, build a community, and save some money at the same time. This plain-English guide lets you discover how to:

• Install, run, and troubleshoot DotNetNuke
• Change and customize portal settings
• Add and manage pages on your site
• Make your site look professional
• Deliver contents with Text/HTML
• Add news feeds, online surveys, and banners
• Interact with visitors through blogging, feedback comments, and forums
• Create an e-business
• Customize the look of your site with exciting components

This book features cool new modules that will meet every Web site’s need, both commercial and personal. With DotNetNuke For Dummies, you’ll get up to speed with this wonderful online tool and create your own corner of the World Wide Web!

Discover the fun and easy way to build and manage websites and portals using DotNetNuke 4.0, the popular, ASP-based open source portal and content delivery tool.  This engaging guide covers everything you need to deploy a DotNetNuke web portal, including installing the portal on multiple operating systems such as Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server. You’ll find out about :

• DotNetNuke terms and technologies
• Install DotNetNuke
• Working effectively with pages
• Managing modules
• Role-based security
• Changing the look and feel of your site in minutes
• Working with standard modules
• Free and commercially available modules
• Working With Portals
• Administrator Responsibilities
• Host User Responsibilities
• Community resources for helping you reach your portal deployment goals

You don’t need to be a network administrator, web developer, or graphic artist to leverage the power of DNN. All you need is a little help from DonNetNuke 4.0 For Dummies.

* DotNetNuke (DNN) is an ASP-based open source portal and content management delivery tool that now has over 200,000 users and is expected to grow to over 600,000 users in the next year; the ASP team at Microsoft is now helping to promote DNN
* Shows DNN newcomers step by step how to install and deploy rich interactive portals using the latest DNN version
* Topics covered include installing DNN on multiple operating systems, working with pages and modules, creating portals, using skins, administering DNN, and handling host user responsibilities
* Includes a technical review and foreword by Shaun Walker, creator of DNN

• DotNetNuke (DNN) is an ASP-based open source portal and content management delivery tool that now has over 200,000 users and is expected to grow to over 600,000 users in the next year; the ASP team at Microsoft is now helping to promote DNN
• Shows DNN newcomers step by step how to install and deploy rich interactive portals using the latest DNN version
• Topics covered include installing DNN on multiple operating systems, working with pages and modules, creating portals, using skins, administering DNN, and handling host user responsibilities
• Includes a technical review and foreword by Shaun Walker, creator of DNN

• DotNetNuke (DNN) is an ASP-based open source portal and content management delivery tool that now has over 200,000 users and is expected to grow to over 600,000 users in the next year; the ASP team at Microsoft is now helping to promote DNN
• Shows DNN newcomers step by step how to install and deploy rich interactive portals using the latest DNN version
• Topics covered include installing DNN on multiple operating systems, working with pages and modules, creating portals, using skins, administering DNN, and handling host user responsibilities
• Includes a technical review and foreword by Shaun Walker, creator of DNN

DotNetNuke (DNN) is an ASP-based open source portal and content management delivery tool that now has over 100,000 users and is expected to grow to more than 500,000 users in the next year; the ASP team at Microsoft is now helping to promote DNN

Shows DNN newcomers step by step how to install and deploy rich interactive portals using the latest DNN version

Topics covered include installing DNN on multiple operating systems, working with pages and modules, creating portals, using skins, administering DNN, and handling host user responsibilities

Includes a technical review and foreword by Shaun Walker, creator of DNN

A good way to start
This is a good start. It gives you a good basic overview, and it’s easier than hitting the forums or printing out all the white papers. I’ve kind of avoided the ’For Dummies’ titles in the past, but I’ve had good luck with them recently. And this is definitely a title I’ve had good luck with. It’s already kind of outdated, but that’s the nature of technology.

This book does provide a very solid introduction, and it really does give you everything you need to start a basic site.

I don’t agree with the reviewer who said this book is oriented toward programmers. It’s not at all! If you have even a cursory understanding of how the web works, you’ll have a site up and running in no time.

Having used DNN for a few months now, however, I’m seeking something that has more meat. Unfortunately, DNN is free, and you get what you pay for. It’s good and getting better, but it’s not as slick or bug free as I’d like. So... Once you get your site up and running, you’ll probably wish you were a programmer so you’d know how to fix all the dumb quirks you’ll discover.

See you in the DNN Forum!

DotNetNuke for Dummies
This is one really great book for anyone getting started with DotNetNuke. All of the most important information is covered very clearly and concisely.

DotNetNuke beginer
The first week of January, I asked my web host to create a web site for my race car team that I could design and update myself. They use DotNetNuke. I knew nothing about running a web site. I had no idea what a "skin" was or how to use a "container." "DotNetNuke for Dummies" turned me into a web designer. [...]

Not written for non-programmers, really
The problem with "Dummies" and similar books written by people who are experts in their areas is that they’ve forgotten what it’s like not to be a beginner. Consequently, they’re often filled with jargon that goes unexplained, processes that leave out steps, and things that just make you go "huh?"

This book is no exception to that. While there is a lot of useful information, there are some puzzling gaps that will leave you scratching your head. It assumes more knowledge than the authors let on.

This book, like many others in this series, would serve the reader much better if they were written by real writers in association with the real experts. A writer with a real command of the presentation of information would know when to dig deeper and ask more questions when a process isn’t clear to the uninitiated reader.

Great for DNN Site Admins
If you are looking for a book to give to your end users on "how to use DNN" and are not looking for programming knowledge, this is the book for you. I would recommend every person that has to edit a page in DNN to read this book in order to understand it’s capabilities and the power that DNN has to offer.