8. DotNetNuke 6.x Basics - Creating a Blog for Your Site Using the Core DNN Blog Module

In this collection of tutorials we show you how to build a website with DotNetNuke 6. We will cover the basics of setting up a range of different free standard DNN Modules.

We will create and configure the following pages:

• About Us - Text/HTML Module
• Contact Us - Feedback Module
• Frequently Asked Questions - FAQs Module
• Documents - Document Manager Module
• Executive Blog - DNN Blog Module
• Community Forums - Forum Module
• Links - Links Module
• Request a Quote - Form and List Module
• We also show you all the basic DotNetNuke administration techniques you will need to further develop your DNN website.

In this tutorial, we walk you through how to add a Blog to your DotNetNuke 6.x website.

We demonstrate how to create the Blog and create your first post, and we then organise and set containers for the various sub-modules to create a good looking Blog page.

This video contains:

• Introduction
• Creating a page using the ‘add’ feature in the pages menu
• Preparing the page
• Adding the DotNetNuke Blog module to the page
• Changing the page skin to give us a left hand column
• Organising the various Blog modules into their ideal panes
• Creating your Blog
• Creating your first post
• Renaming the Blog modules and setting their containers
• How to hide the Blog admin module from the public