I’ve been using SharePoint for almost 10 years and have enjoyed the ability to add and modify webparts pretty easily.  I’m researching DNN as analternative and things that I find very simple in SharePoint don’t seem as easily apparent.  What I’m trying to do, at the moment, is to create a contacts list with some custom fields for my family.  Example:

First Name
Last Name
Full Name (i.e. calculatedfield=First Name + Last Name)
Address
Phone number
Birthday
Anniversary Date
Relationship (Mother, Father,Brother Son, etc. etc.)
Link to “Full Name” – I use this to build relationships between the records

In SharePoint I can use either the built in “contacts” or “event” lists and add the additional fields I’d like.  I haven’t found a module yet that supports this…  I’d appreciate any suggestions around this question and in general, how to create custom lists inDNN.

Thanks, Ed.

PS - I'm using the newest version of DNN, installed on Windows Server 2008 and SQL Express 2008 R2