Chapter 9. Standard Stuff You Can Customize

In This Chapter

  • Enabling Search on your site

  • Personalizing your e-mail notifications

  • Changing your Terms of Use policy

  • Changing your default language

In this chapter, you find out how to customize some of the features of DNN. This includes setting up how you want your users to be able to search your site. You can do things like limit the size of the words they can search for and allow them to search for numbers. We also talk about the Language Editor and how you can use it to modify all sorts of messages and e-mails.

DNN has a huge worldwide following and a large number of non-English–speaking users, so DNN developed a system that allows the users to see some parts of DNN sites in their own language. Any piece of text that is part of DNN and not "content" can be switched to one of about 50 languages. Let's get down to it and see how to customize your DNN Web site!

Finding Things with Search Input and Search Results

Internet surfers are an impatient bunch. They want information and answers, and they want them now. If they can't find things easily on your Web site, they will probably go elsewhere for them. These quick clickers appreciate having access to an intelligent search function to hunt out what they seek. Aren't you lucky that DNN includes just what you need to provide easy searching?

DNN has a built-in search function that searches all the content of your Web site. This is a skin element that is included in most site skins. The standard DNN ...

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