Hello,

I'm fairly new to this so apologies if this is a dense question! I'm sure this has been asked before but I've searched the forums and can't find any posts answering it.

I have a very simple asp.net site with 4 pages that contain static content. I want to use DNN to start extending the existing site to add stuff like blogs, forums and news. These questions are a bit of a brain dump but they go something like:

1. Would I add references to the DNN bin directory to my existing project or move my existing project to the DNN web project?
2. How would I then go about adding something like the news module to my existing default page? Obviously at the moment the admin\host editors aren't available on my site so how would I get them to appear?
3. Where I have pages with entirely static content do they have to have any relation with DNN, i.e. do they have to be rendered via the html control or can I simply link to the static page?
4. Are there any consequences on having a site with DNN pages and "standard" static html pages? For example linking between pages or other issues with urls?

I appreciate the questions are slightly random but if you can give me any help at all I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks,
Paul

1. usually you setup a new DNN portal and integrate the existing static content without its navigation into Text/HTML modules inside the new web site
2. add additional functionality by creating additional pages and adding DotNetNuke modules onto the pages. Navigation (Menu, breadcrumb, sitemap) gets extended automatically
3. you can also link to external HTML pages (see the option at the  far bottom of the page settings), but you loose all corpotate design and navigation features.
4. see 3.