I’m writing a DotNetNuke Book! “DotNetNuke, A User’s Guide”

So this has been in the works for a few months but I’ve managed to withhold blogging about it until the contract was signed for fear of cursing myself and losing the deal. I, along with a coworker at Engage Software Patrick Renner, will be writing a DotNetNuke book over the next several months.

The title of the book is tentatively slated to be DotNetNuke, A User’s Guide and will be published under the DotNetNuke series of books from Wrox.

The goal for this book is to provide the ultimate starters’ guide for DotNetNuke. It will provide guidance for users to form a solid foundation for the creation and maintenance of a website running on the DotNetNuke platform. The first half of the book will introduce the reader to the concepts of website construction, content management systems, site administration and how these are managed in DNN. The second half of the book provides detailed instructions for how to apply the concepts presented in the first half to real world web site use cases.

We think this is definitely a book that can be utilized by a wide range of users to get familiar with the creation and management of a DotNetNuke website, without requiring that the users have the technical knowledge of a software developer.

We had our mug shots taken for the cover of the book this morning, and I finished signing the contracts this afternoon. They would have been signed earlier in the month had I not been out of the country for two weeks. We are going to be ramping up our first few chapters tomorrow with a kickoff meeting after work.

I will definitely be blogging throughout the book writing process if you’re interested in seeing how it all developers.