DotNetNuke 7 Basic Training - Setting Up Your Website

The host user account, sometimes called the superuser is the most important user account for your DotNetNuke website. When you log in as the host user you will have permission to change anything and everything in your DNN website.

If your DotNetNuke site has been set up with a default or easy to guess host password, it is important that we change this to a more secure password.

The site name will appear in several different places on your site, it will be on display in many of the emails that DotNetNuke sends out and also in any search results in search engines such as Google.

It is important to change the copyright information at the bottom of each page. As you begin to develop and add content to your site you will want people to know that you own all copyright.

This information will be used by google and other search engines to accompany your site url in user search results, it will also be used by search engines to help them index your site.

DotNetNuke 7 gives you the ability to simply ‘drag and drop’ your company logo into the website.

DNN 7 includes several different user registration modes, here you can choose the ideal user registration mode for your website.

The default homepage of your site can be changed to a different page.

The default installation of DotNetNuke 7 includes demonstration pages and content, here we walk through how to remove this content.