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Building Websites with the ASP.NET Community Starter Kit

Preparing the Folder Structure and the Page Skin

Even though we'll deal with creating the new theme later, we'll prepare its folder structure by following these steps:

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That's it! The Blue folder will be the playground later when implementing the personalized look for our website. First, we'll add some substance to the website by adding a number of new sections.

Adding Information

We'll populate the website as follows....

Start your engines!

Having a New Home

By default, when creating a new community, the Home section is an HTML Page section without any functionality and without the possibility of changing its appearance. However, if you choose Apply Sample Content when creating the community, the home section is automatically configured as a Parent section.

We will change the Home section to a Parent section. Among other features, this means that we'll get the useful listing of Child sections. Let's do this as follows:

Name

Value

Section Name Home
Section Title Home
Section Menu Title HOME
Section Description Welcome!
Section Type Parent Section

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Note that we make use of a style (Home_Header) that doesn't exist in the current Default.css file. Later, when building the layout, we'll create the new styles and modify some of the existing ones.

5. In the Appearance tab, you can also set the meta-description and keywords, helping the website to rank higher in search engine results. Here's an example:

Name

Value

Section Meta Description Cristian Darie's personal home page
Section Meta Keywords ASP.NET, Community Starter Kit, CSK, C#, programming, SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL

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We'll take care of improving the looks later; but for now the functionality is there. After adding new sections, their links will be listed in the home page, instead of the boring This section has no child sections message.

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