Dotnetnuke™ For Dummies®

Chapter 6. Adding Bells and Whistles to Your Site

In This Chapter

• Remembering dates with events

• Subscribing with news feeds (RSS)

• Going ad hoc with User Defined Tables

• Sharing spreadsheets and data with XML/XSL

• Creating online surveys

• Leveraging partnerships with the Banners module

• Seeing who's at home with UsersOnline

There are a lot of sites out there on the World Wide Web today. We haven't quite managed to count them all, but there are millions! Standing out among the crowd can sometimes be difficult. Luckily the modules included with DNN let you add some special touches to your Web site.

The modules covered in this chapter offer interesting, attractive, and useful ways to do it. This chapter shows you how to use seven modules that are included with DNN. These modules require a small amount of configuration but aren't at all complicated.

The Events and User Defined Tables modules present content in an interest and interactive layout. The News Feeds module and XML/XML modules display data created outside of DNN. The Survey module lets you create online surveys, and the UsersOnline module displays information and statistics on your user membership. Read on to find out how to make your Web site stand out with these great modules.

This chapter also explains how to add vendor accounts to your Web site. Vendors are companies that have advertising banners or messages on your Web site. The Administrator manages the vendor account, the uploading of banners, and has access to banner reports.

Keeping ...