Rob, again I respect your opinion. I admitted that I had issues with other asp.net applications but perhaps it wasn't as bad as you guys have had with DNN. While I agree communication and documentation is a bit lacking, I also look at the starter kit which was well documented and had a few helpful pinned threads and have found that this so called easy to start app was the one people were having the most trouble with. It is also dificult to cover the many environments people are using. Hopefully when we are down to one code base again this will help at least a little bit.

I do have to completely disagree that there is no such thing as inexperience or un-knowing and we all have to keep in mind that regardless of how well you communicate something there can be problems. I like to look at a few things covered in the forum doc I wrote which people are still asking question on and many others besides me believe it was communicated well. (First time dnn and/or asp.net users found it useful too). 

All that said, do I think we can improve all of this including documentation and the installation process in general? Yes, I do. Do I think someone is retarded for not being able to install dnn? No, I don't.

On my downloads page - I've got a 21mb 26 minute WMV file that explains about Child Portals - and Parent Portals - I saw and have seen this issue come up before and meant to do this video a while ago - so you can log in and download it..

Nina Meiers