Thank you very much for your reply Mandeep and Lance

the site right now has nothing DNN related to it - it has databases/database driven and it is a site written in ASP which is why they want to use DNN and not , say, Joomla - so it would be like installing a clean new DNN site - and I picture using a database extension/module to sync it up? Right now I am unsure - if DNN comes first or the databases come first - do I point DNN to the database or do I point the database at DNN

 Lance - I have no idea the nature of the databases

I appreciate your reply

 Rob

PS - I cant seem to be able to reply to your answers - how do I reply? - hence the part 2 post