Question 1 : Yes, it is a permissions problem you have. After adding a page, go into the page settings by clicking on 'edit' in the control panel. This will load up the page settings.

Find the permissions section and grant permissions to 'all users' 'view' permission for the page, then click on 'update' (at the bottom). This will grant all (anonymous) users the ability to view the page. This will make it appear in the menu.

Question 2 : All portals are stored in a flat structure - there is no hierarchy. Each portal has a row in the 'Portals' table, and each tab belongs to a portal. The difference between a child portal and a parent portal is simply the portal alias, or unique domain/path that identifies the portal.
So you could have 3 portals:
portal1.com
portal2.com
portal1.com/portal3
In this case portal1.com and portal2.com are 'parent' portals, and portal1.com/portal3 is a 'child' portal, simply because the unique path (portal alias) of the portal is a child directory of another portal. Apart from that, there is no relationship between the two. 'Child' portal was perhaps a inaccurate term to use back when the functionality was introduced, 'directory' portal might have been better as it doesn't imply a relationship.

A host portal is just one of the portals (usually 0) which is designated as the host portal. It doesn't have a lot of significance in day-to-day use.

you may create a child site Site1/site2, AFAIK WebMatrix does not provide UI for assigning multiple aliases to the same web site, which you would need to use DNN with multiple parent portals.

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Cheers from Germany,
Sebastian Leupold

   

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