Advertising the Books

We need to add some books to our site. To keep things simple, we'll add a single book. This doesn't change the fact that we do need a Books section. Here are the steps you need to follow:

1. Make another trip to the Community Administration Menu and add a new section with the following:

Name	Value
Section Name	Books
Section Title	My Books
Section Menu Title	MY BOOKS
Section Description	Interesting details, downloads and other information related to my books.
Section Type	Book Section

2. In the Appearance tab, set the HTML of Section Page Header like this:

<B>Knowledge is power</B>, and very often knowledge comes through books. It is a great pleasure for me to share what I know with my fellow programmers, especially when I'm not doing it for free:) My books are in the area of Microsoft .NET programming, and databases. Please click on any of the links below to find more details about a particular book.

3. Click Add Section. The Books section will appear as in the following image:

4. Click the Add Book link to add a new book:

Name	Value
Book Title	Beginning ASP.NET E-Commerce, 2nd Edition
Author	Cristian Darie, Karli Watson
ISBN	1590592549
Purchase Link	http://www.cristiandarie.ro/eCommerceBook2.html
Price	39.99
Book Brief Description	The excellent feedback we received for the first edition inspired us to produce an even better book for those of you starting to build e-commerce solutions with ASP.NET, VB.NET and SQL Server.
Book Full Description	The second edition features improved code, more theory, more code, and more tips & tricks about how to build effective e-commerce sites! The book was also updated for latest versions of .NET and Visual Studio .NET.

5. The results are as follows:

Unlike with the image in the HTML page (which we added as a community image to the database), here the image file was automatically added to the database as a section image.

Hey, we now have a Books section! Authenticated users can even add comments by default on the books, but you are always free to change the security options. Don't forget that you can also enable ratings!

Forum

The final section we're adding is the forum, which is probably the feature that makes this website a true community website. Here's the path to make it live:

1. Make another trip to the Community Administration Menu and add a new section:

Name	Value
Section Name	Forum
Section Title	Forum
Section Menu Title	FORUM
Section Description	Feel free to discuss about any decent topics here
Section Type	Discuss Section

2. In the Security tab, add Community-Authenticated to Add Roles. This will allow any authenticated user, not only the administrators, to post to the forum.

3. Press the Add Section button. Congratulations, you have a forum on the website!

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Created: March 27, 2003
Revised: July 29, 2004

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