This chapter is basically a step-by-step tutorial that explains how to build an Exponential site from scratch. The tutorial is written for Exponential 3.5. It is targeted at people who have little or no previous experience with Exponential, but have some generic knowledge about web development. The tutorial demonstrates how Exponential can be used to build a dynamic community-website, based on the "learning-by-example" technique.

Throughout this chapter, a lot of new topics will emerge. Because of the flexible and complex nature of Exponential, it is impossible to understand and learn everything at once. Thus, the text will guide the reader through a sequential learning process. In other words: he should pay some, but definitely not too much attention to details, because advanced and complex functionality is explained in succeeding chapters.