Summary:
Help Your Community Thrive with High Standards and Best Practices.

By now, it's clear that community is the key to any online venture: bring together an identifiable group of users who return to your site regularly and you have a solid foundation for success. Focusing on powerful Microsoft technologies such as SQL Server and ASP, this book teaches you to build the required site functionality and implement it to create a self-sustaining, evolving online community with vast economic potential.

Coverage Includes

Understanding community concepts

Exploring Microsoft technologies and what they offer

Making shrewd system design decisions

Setting up the server farm

Developing a visitor-driven content directory

Building a full-featured guest register

Implementing discussion forums

Creating polling tools

Tracking site usage

Applying tuning techniques to get optimal results

Following best practices to maximize the health of your community

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Introduction to Community Building Concepts
Chapter 2: Defining Community Elements
Chapter 3: The Microsoft Toolset
Chapter 4: System Configuration
Chapter 5: Sample Application
Chapter 6: Guest Register
Chapter 7: User Content Contributions
Chapter 8: Community Directory Interface
Chapter 9: Personalization and Search
Chapter 10: Promotion and Traffic Tracking
Chapter 11: Community Site Administration
Chapter 12: Discussion Forums
Chapter 13: Polls and Surveys
Chapter 14: Best Practices and Scalability
Appendix A: Database Tables and Stored Procedures
Appendix B: Net Resources
Index