9. DotNetNuke 6.x Basics - Setting Up a Forum and Creating a Community Section

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 show you how to create a community forum page and configure the basic settings of the DotNetNuke forum.

We combine the Forum and the blog pages of your new DotNetNuke site to create a community section.

This video contains:

• Introduction
• Adding the Forum Module to a page
• About forum groups and forums
• How to access the forum admin
• Where to add new forums and forum groups
• Creating your first forum post
• Creating a community page
• Moving the forum and blog to be children of the community page
• How to make a page redirect to another
• How to use the DotNetNuke core links module