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6/10/2011 11:58 AM
 
I am working on a site in DNN for the first time. I am running 5.6.2 on IIS7 Windows 2008. I would like to know how to create a microsite within a site, where once you click on a navigation link to a certain page, the navigation menu changes to a new set of pages within that microsite, basically so that it has 2 independent navigation menus. I may have the terminology wrong on this but just looking for how to set something like this up in DNN 5.

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6/10/2011 5:07 PM
 
Child (http://www.domain.com/siteA)  and Parent (http://siteA.domain.com) Portals can be created by a host account. Logged in as a host navigate to Host>Portals.  Here you can create the needed portal (microsite).

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6/10/2011 5:19 PM
 
U, Chris points out one approach to doing it within DNN (using Portals) but if you want the same Administrator user to be able to manage both "sites" you would likely want to take a different approach.

This would likely include creating a new Skin, that points to a different location within the navigation, basically setting up the Menu in the second skin to only show Children of a specific portion of your hierarchy, in order to achieve the Microsite effect.

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6/10/2011 5:48 PM
 
Yeah I would prefer to avoid creating separate portals and subdomains. Probably something more like this: www.domain.com and www.domain.com/microsite with the /microsite having a different navigation bar/menu. Does that require a separate skin being set up to achieve it?

I also would like to be able to turn off the nav bar altogether page by page, so that some pages are purely content, without navigation. Is that possible as well?

 
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