Dummy's Guide to Postnuke
or
How to Run Your Website

Version 1.1 February 2004 for Postnuke v.726
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Table of Contents

1. Welcome to your website
  1.1 Purpose of this guide
  1.2 Purpose of a Website

2. How a website works
  2.1 What is a browser?
  2.2 Hosted on a server
  2.3 Domain Name
  2.4 HTML
  2.5 CMS

3. What is Postnuke?
  3.1 Postnuke version .726 (beta)
  3.2 What is Open Source?

4. Overview of the parts of a Postnuke Website
  4.1 Blocks
  4.2 Modules
  4.3 Themes

5. Blocks Installed on your site
  5.1 Main Menu
  5.2 Who's Online
  5.3 Tracker
  5.4 Admin Messages
  5.5 Calendar/Events
  5.6 Links
  5.7 Credits
  5.8 Login
  5.9 Incoming

6. Becoming a Member
  6.1 Members (users) vs. non-members vs. anonymous visitors
  6.2 Registration
  6.3 Recovering a Lost Password
  6.4 Login/Logout
  6.5 My Account

7. The Administration Menu (installed Modules)
  7.1 Settings
  7.2 The Modules and Blocks 'menu'
  7.3 User Management
    7.3.1 User Administration
    7.3.2 Groups
  7.4 News Management
    7.4.1 Topics
    7.4.2 Add Story
    7.4.3 Submit News
  7.5 Admin Messages
  7.6 Web Links
  7.7 Private Messages
  7.8 The Modules you probably don't need care about
    7.8.1 Censor
    7.8.2 Comments
    7.8.3 FAQ
    7.8.4 Permissions
    7.8.5 Polls
  7.9 Third Party Modules You *may* have installed
    7.9.1 Content Express
    7.9.2 PNphpBB2
    7.9.3 phpbible
    7.9.4 pnBloodhound
    7.9.5 PostCalendar
    7.9.6 UpDownload
    7.9.7 pnEmployee
    7.9.8 pnTresMailer

8. Extending, Expanding, or changing your website
  8.1 Installing a new Module
  8.2 Installing a new Block
  8.3 Custom Development

9. Use (and reuse) of this document
  9.1 Copyright Notice

Appendix One: phpBible Documentation

Appendix Two: pnEmployee Documentation

Appendix Three: GNU Free Documentation License

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