Initialize DotNetAge

Start DotNetAge installation

Open web browser and type the DotNetAge installation path in address bar.

Get host password

Open the DotNetAge in your  web browser by default the host password is empty it generate on the installation home page first run.The DotNetAge will auto redirect to installation home page when your web site is new.Then open the web.config file of the DotNetAge installation root path.Get the password use for host logon.

Select the web site template

The website template is for a particular application, would constitute specific pages within the site, function, widgets, pictures and other resources to make good a pre-installed package. Of course, after the release of the template, you can still customize the web site for your needs, and also you can publish your site into a new site template by DotNetAge.

DotNetAge provides several templates to choice:

Name	Description
Blog	The blog template helping you to create a full features blog site.The key features of this template: Supports all features of DotNetAge. Supports WYSAWYG rich content editing. Supports Wiki and Html post format. Supports Pingback and Trackback. Supports real time theme editing. Supports multiple post categories Supports tags. Supports friendly url auto generation. Offers 13 widgets for you to custom your blog UI such as Archives, BlogRoll, Category Navigator, PostBoll, TagCloud and more.
Blogs	The blog template helping you to create a multiple blogs site.The key features of this template: Supports all features of DotNetAge. Supports social networking. Supports WYSAWYG rich content editing. Supports Wiki and Html post format. Supports Pingback and Trackback. Supports real time theme editing. Supports multiple post categories Supports tags. Supports friendly url auto generation. Offers 13 widgets for you to custom your blog UI such as Archives, BlogRoll, Category Navigator, PostBoll, TagCloud and more.
Community	The community template helping you to create a forums.The key features of this template: Supports all features of DotNetAge. Supports WYSAWYG rich content editing. Supports BBCode and Html post format. Supports New/Edit/Delete/Move/Reply/Quote post. Supports attachments Supports real time theme editing. Supports hierarchical forum structure. Supports moderate threads. Supports moderate forums and groups. Supports ranking.
Company	The company template can help you to create a small bussiness website for your company.
Core	The core template only install the DotNetAge core ( including personal web site, publising application plugin and community application plugin) but do not initizial any data.You must customize the pages,features and content by manual.
Enterprise	The Enterprise portal template can help you to create a full features portal for your enterprise that allows your stuffs create their peronsonal web site,create the forums for enterprise.
Library	The library template could helping you to create a document library website. Supports all features of DotNetAge. Supports hierarchical article/post categories.(MSDN like). High performance and supports large quantity articles and documents. Supports load categories on demand. Supports drag and drop the categories in management console. Supports Wiki and Html post format. Supports Pingback and Trackback. Supports real time theme editing. Supports multiple post categories Supports rating and tags. Supports friendly url auto generation.

Click “Next” and Finish install.

Using the default administrator account to login the DotNetAge.

Enjoy!