Day Of DNN Chicago

Building a Site with DotNetNuke the Right Way

DotNetNuke is a powerful platform for building feature rich websites with fairly quick results. Not only do you have all the great features included with DotNetNuke immediately at your disposal, but you also have an arsenal of thousands of modules and skins to easily extend your website.

In this session you will learn how all of these various modules interact within your site. You will understand how to evaluate module usage and skin objects in order to better optimize each page. We will also review various skin packages and highlight what makes some skins better than others. At the end of this session you will have a better understanding of what affects site performance and be able to make decisions that can greatly improve your DotNetNuke website.

Building Social Communities with DotNetNuke

How can you make your site more "social"? Do you want to improve communication with your customers? Would you like to add more capabilities to your existing community? Are social tools a good fit for your site, your users and for you? We will look at what capabilities exist today within DotNetNuke along with administrative and maintenance tasks that you should consider. We will also review what modules and widgets you can easily add to your existing site. Then we will show how you can interact with other popular social networking tools. Finally, we will walkthrough how you can leverage DotNetNuke and various modules to build your own social networking site.