atakanozban.com

The source code for my personal portfolio website: an ASP.NET MVC 5 site with a small custom admin panel for managing projects, affiliate links, social icons and the site wallpaper, plus English/Turkish localization.

Features

• Public site: home, about, my projects (with an image/iframe carousel per project), affiliate links, dynamic social icons in the footer, and a changeable background wallpaper.
• Admin panel (/admin) protected by Forms Authentication:
  • My Projects: create/edit posts with EN/TR translations and a media manager (upload images or embed iframes, drag-free reordering via a sort order field).
  • Affiliate Links: create/edit links with a logo, title, description and EN/TR translations.
  • Social Icons: manage the icon row shown in the site footer (Font Awesome classes + URLs).
  • Wallpaper: upload a new background image for the whole site, or reset to the default.
  • Image uploads everywhere support both the regular file picker and pasting an image straight from the clipboard (Ctrl+V).
• English / Turkish localization via .resx resource files and a culture cookie.

Tech stack

• ASP.NET MVC 5 / .NET Framework 4.7.2
• Entity Framework 6 (Code First, but with automatic migrations disabled — see Database setup below)
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Bootstrap 5.3.3 and Font Awesome 6 (loaded from CDN)

Prerequisites

• Windows with Visual Studio 2019+ (the ".NET desktop development" / "ASP.NET and web development" workload) or MSBuild + IIS/IIS Express
• SQL Server (LocalDB, SQL Server Express, or a full instance)
• (Optional) An FTP/hosting environment if you want to deploy it somewhere other than IIS Express

Getting started

1. Clone and restore packages

git clone <this-repo-url>
cd atakanozbancom

Open atakanozbancom.sln in Visual Studio. NuGet packages will restore automatically on build (or run nuget restore atakanozbancom.sln from a Developer Command Prompt).

2. Database setup

This project uses EF6 Code First with Database.SetInitializer<Context>(null), meaning Entity Framework will never create or alter tables for you — the schema is managed by hand.

1. Create an empty database (SQL Server Management Studio, Azure Data Studio, or sqlcmd):

   CREATE DATABASE atakanozbancomdb;
   

2. Run database/schema.sql against that database. It creates every table the app needs (admins, projects, affiliate links, social icons, site settings) and inserts one seed admin account (admin / change-this-password).

3. Change that seed password (see Security notes — logins currently compare passwords as plain text, so don't reuse a real password here).

3. Configure Web.config

Open Web.config and update the connectionStrings section to point at your SQL Server instance:

<connectionStrings>
  <add name="Context" connectionString="Data Source=YOUR_SERVER\INSTANCE;Initial Catalog=atakanozbancomdb;Integrated Security=true;" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
</connectionStrings>

Then generate your own <machineKey /> (see the comment above <customErrors> in Web.config for a couple of ways to do this) and paste it into <system.web>. This keeps authentication cookies and ViewState valid across app restarts/deployments — don't skip it, and don't reuse a sample key you find online.

4. Run it

Press F5 in Visual Studio (or Ctrl+F5 to skip the debugger). The site starts at the URL shown in the IIS Express system tray icon / Visual Studio's toolbar. Log in at /login with the admin account you created above, then manage content from /admin.

Project structure

Controllers/            MVC controllers (public site + admin panel)
Models/classes/         Entity Framework models, view models, helpers
Views/                  Razor views, organized by controller
App_GlobalResources/    English (.resx) and Turkish (.tr-TR.resx) translation strings
App_Start/              Routing, bundling and filter configuration
Content/uploads/        User-uploaded images (logos, project media, wallpaper) — gitignored
database/schema.sql     Full database schema + seed admin account
web_atakanozbancom/     Static assets (CSS/JS/images) for the public site

Uploaded content

Anything uploaded through the admin panel (project media, affiliate link logos, the wallpaper) is written to folders under Content/uploads/. Those folders are tracked with a .gitkeep placeholder but their contents are gitignored, since uploaded files are runtime data, not source code.

Security notes

This project was open-sourced as a personal portfolio/reference, not as a hardened multi-tenant product. A few things worth knowing if you deploy your own copy or build on it:

• Passwords are stored and compared in plain text (loginController). If you plan to expose this beyond your own local use, replace this with a proper password hash (e.g. BCrypt/PBKDF2) before going live.
• The admin panel already includes [Authorize] on every management action and [ValidateAntiForgeryToken] on every state-changing POST, so it's protected against CSRF once you're logged in — but access is still gated by a single shared admin login rather than per-user accounts/roles.
• File uploads are restricted to an image extension allowlist (.jpg, .jpeg, .png, .webp, .gif) — SVG is intentionally excluded since it can carry executable script.
• User-entered descriptions are HTML-encoded before rendering; a small [text](https://...) markdown-style syntax is the only way to add links, via DescriptionFormatter.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.