Chapter 2. Touring a Community Starter Kit Website

It’s time to make a trip to the moon. Touring the Lunar .NET community, the sample community website that ships with the Community Starter Kit (CSK), will help you learn about the features and functionality bundled in the starter kit. The first step towards creating your own community website based on the CSK is to get accustomed to its functionality.

Lunar .NET implements almost all the functionality supported by the starter kit engine. After this tour, you might find that the CSK includes everything you need for your own website and more.

Chapters 3, 4, and 5 will teach you how to create a community website by reusing what you already have. In the later chapters, you’ll learn how to extend the CSK by creating new modules.

In this chapter, we aim to:

• Analyze the general features provided by all major CSK modules

• Learn how to create and edit new user accounts

• Look at how each CSK module works

Overview of the Community Starter Kit

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