Community Starter Kit-Overview

Community Starter Kit supports many different types of content, including articles, photo repositories, and event lists. In addition, it also supports a large number of optional features (these features are standard on many community sites), including advertising, arbitration, upload Configuration
Amount, comments, comments, user votes, content change notifications, automatic conversion, subject, Web box, union, press releases, appearance and security.

An advertisement is processed by two adrotator controls with a standard size (468 bytes-60
Pixel), and the other has a 125 pixel-125 pixel banner. If you enable the arbitration function for a region, the content of this region must be approved by the reviewer to be displayed on this site. You can set an upload quota for each user to limit
Number of images and files that can be uploaded to the site. Community Starter Kit also supports the uploading quota for the entire community. This allows the ISP to host many communities in a single box without occupying all available disk space for a site. /

You can choose to enable the user rating and comment function for a specific type of content (book or article. Users can evaluate content items (the rating can be from 1 to 5). If they want to, they can also enter a comment to replace the rating, or both add a rating and a comment.

Community Starter Kit supports creating and reporting user voting. Therefore, you can use a development language such as "Which one do you like for. Net ?" Or "what is the name of the first drummer of the Qi Yi spacecraft choir ?" And so on. You can also automatically notify users when there is new content in a region. You can even specify
Function to automatically remove foul language from submitted content and comments without any intervention.

Community Starter Kit has an option that allows you to create a topic list so that you can classify the content when adding the contributed content. Therefore, the topics of. NET Framework-based news sites can be ASP. NET, hosted C ++, and Web services.

Community Starter Kit allows you to enable various web
Box to add the content to be highlighted in the blank area of the page. For example, you can use a web box to display the most popular or up-to-date articles, links, downloads, or photos on the home page. You can also use the reference web box to display random references on the page.

Community Starter Kit supports two mechanisms for copying content: Service subscription and Web Service boxes. By using the service subscription mechanism, you can aggregate another Community Starter
The content of the kit site area is displayed on your site. For example, you can subscribe to the discussion area of another community site and display it on your own site as if they were your own discussion area. Like a web box, the Web service box displays extracted information in the blank area. However, the Web service box can obtain content from other sites. You can subscribe to another Community Starter Kit site that uses its content as an XML Web Service, or subscribe to the RSS service, as shown in figure
Http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/rss/recent.xml. You can use the XML Web Service and SOAP protocol (instead of the current RSS Protocol) to publish any region of the site as a community service. The published region can be used as a service subscription or
Web service box.

You can send press releases to community members. The press release component supports both templates and embedded special tags. You can use these tags to include fields such as username, fullname, and password, and content-specific fields such as newarticles, newbooks, and newdownloads.

The Community Starter Kit engine supports appearance, themes, and other concepts, and allows you to completely change the appearance of a site by selecting another topic from the Management page. The appearance and topic will be discussed later in this article.

Community Starter Kit supports a wide range of security systems that classify members by their roles: Anonymous, authenticated, reviewed, and administrator, you can also classify roles according to your custom roles. You can also protect the security of any area of the site so that only a specific type of users can view, add, edit, or delete content.

Figure 2 community Web site example

 

Figure 2 illustrates many Community functions supported by Community Starter Kit. This community is a fictitious user group Named Ballard. Net, which uses a professional topic. Note that the user vote is displayed on the top of the page, and the community service supply box title ". Net Tips & tricks" is located in the bottom right corner of the page.