Dotnetnuke™ For Dummies®

Chapter 1. Maximize Your Web Potential

In This Chapter

• Discovering member and security roles

• Getting to know content modules and design

• Collaborating with DotNetNuke: Permissions and special roles

• Finding help is only a hyperlink away!

DotNetNuke revolutionizes common notions of consumer-oriented Web publishing by putting enormous power, affordably, into the hands of regular people. Whereas most tools for creating Web sites just let you type a little text and change a few colors and graphics, DotNetNuke makes it possible for anyone to secure private information, host interactive content, and transact real business.

One of the great things about the Internet is that it levels the playing field when it comes to competing with the big boys. Whether you are a private individual, a sole proprietor, or a small business owner, an interactive Web site that engages your audience can project an image of professionalism previously achievable only by a much larger company. However, the inverse of that statement is also true: Many Web sites of large companies, even international conglomerates, are so woefully sleep-inducing that nobody will remember where they are, much less care to return to them.

If the Internet is teaching us one thing, it's that value is vastly increased through interaction. That means that your Web site should not only share your own information, but make it possible for others who share interest in that information to expand upon it, comment on it, rate it, add to it, subscribe ...