Using the Community Administration Menu

The CSK is equipped with a powerful administrative interface named the Community Administration Menu. It is an excellent tool that allows you to control and change your community without changing a single line of code. It is organized into multiple administrative sections that control various aspects of the community website. However, the Community Administration Menu has a few weaknesses:

• You cannot add or remove new users through the Community Administration Menu. The administrator can edit existing users through the Community Administration Menu | Edit Users section. A new user can register through the Register link in the main page (we discussed this inChapter 2).

• You cannot edit the list of quotes.

• You cannot administer the advertising banners.

These limitations can be overcome in four main ways:

• Manually editing external configuration files (XML configuration files, Web.Config).

• Editing or adding skin files. Skin files permit changing the layout...