Web Design

This tutorial walks you through how to create a favicon from scratch, how to create a favicon from an existing image and how to attach the favicon.ico file to your DotNetNuke website.

Favicons are a good way to make your site stand out from a long list of bookmarked pages. If your website has a logo, you should be using it to the best of its potential and placing your branding wherever possible. Favcons make your pages easier to find in bookmark listings and browser tabs, and you give your customers a familiar image to look for.

This tutorial shows you how to setup the authentication settings in DotNetNuke.

The authentication settings cover the various configuration options available for the Login Page of DotNetNuke. We demonstrate how to enable CAPTCHA in the standard DotNetNuke login page, as well as how to setup the login using Windows LiveID and OpenID.

The videos cover:

• Video 1 - Introduction, CAPTCHA, Windows LiveID Application
• Video 2 - How to Setup and Test Windows LiveID Login in DotNetNuke
• Video 3 - How to enable a LiveID Register Link, Configuring OpenID
• Video 4 - How to configure OpenID in DotNetNuke
• Video 5 - How to create an OpenID signup page

Total Time Length: 40mins

This tutorial demonstrates how to setup the DotNetNuke Core Search.

We walk you through configuring the DotNetNuke Core Search step by step, beginning with how to ensure that DotNetNuke indexes your website, the content that it should index and how to schedule a regular index of your website.

The videos contain:

• Video 1 - Using the DNN Core Search, Re-indexing Content
• Video 2 - Increasing Search Effectiveness, Configuring the Search Results Module
• Video 3 - Configuring the DotNetNuke Search Skin Object, Google AdSense Affiliate ID’s
• Video 4 - Configuring the Search Skin Object, Configuring the Search Input Module

Total Time Length: 32min

This tutorial outlines how to setup a Podcast website using DotNetNuke. We demonstrate how we setup the podcasts on dotnetnukepodcast.com right through to submitting your podcast to the iTunes store.

The videos contain:

• Video 1 - Dotnetnukepodcast.com, Configuring the Ventrian News Articles Module
• Video 2 - Feedburner.com, Creating an RSS feed
• Video 3 - Promoting the RSS feed using the iTunes Player

Total Time Length: 22min

This tutorial demonstrates how you can use the styles drop down list in the FCK editor to format the text.

Using the styles drop down list allows you to quickly apply CSS classes from your skin.css file and should help to ensure that administrators do not use bad practices for styling text, such as using font tags.

The videos contain:

• Video 1 - Styling the Background of the Style Dropdown List in the FCK Editor
• Video 2 - List of Available Styles for the FCK Editor
• Video 3 - Dynamic Styles in the FCK Editor
• Video 4 - How to Create Custom Styles
• Video 5 - Creating Class Styles in the Style Dropdown List
• Video 6 - How to Customise Block Quotes with Different Classes

Total Time Length: 48mins

This tutorial demonstrates how to create your own HTML templates for the FCK Editor in DotNetNuke.

HTML templates are really useful for adding repetitive content into a page; they can give you a starting point when adding content to the page, you do not need to start from scratch, you can simply select a template as a starting point and then edit the content within the template. This will help to reduce errors created by content editors.

The videos contain:

• Video 1 - Introduction, the FCKtemplates.xml file
• Video 2 - How to Create a Custom HTML Template

Total Time Length: 16mins

This tutorial outlines the functions in the FCK Editor Toolbar.

The tutorial shows how each of the FCK Editor Toolbar functions work, ranging from basic text editing, such as copy and paste techniques, through to creating various types of links such as anchor links. All options in the toolbar are demonstrated including the advanced functions for each button. This tutorial also comes with a PDF document which outlines all of the keyboard shortcuts used within the FCK editor.

The videos cover:

• Video 1 - Introduction, FCK Editor Basics, Toolbar buttons
• Video 2 - Copy and Paste Functions, Removing Formatting
• Video 3 - Text Formatting, Lists, Indents Text Alignment, Links
• Video 4 - Working with Links
• Video 5 - Working with Links and Images
• Video 6 - Working with Images, Flash and Tables
• Video 7 - Working with Tables, Insert, Formatting Text

Total Time Length: 54mins

In this tutorial we demonstrate how to administer Skins and Containers in DotNetNuke through the use of SQL queries.

In particular we demonstrate how to change the container of a module displayed on all or several pages, how to change the container of a module to a new container based on the name of the old container, and how to change the skin of a page to a new skin based on the name of the old skin.

The videos cover:

• Video 1 - How to Change Module Containers Using SQL
• Video 2 - How to Change Module Containers Based On The Container Name Using SQL
• Video 3 - How to Change a Page Skin Based On The Skin Name Using SQL

Total Time Length: 24mins

In this tutorial we demonstrate how to use the SQL core DotNetNuke module.

This module is only available to the host user on your DotNetNuke installation and it allows you to execute SQL queries and scripts from within your DotNetNuke installation.

Although we thoroughly recommend you use SQL Server to build and check your queries, the DotNetNuke SQL module is useful if you already have a good understanding of using SQL within your DotNetNuke installation.

The video covers:

• Introduction
• How to access the DotNetNuke SQL Module
• Overview of the SQL Module
• How to load a SQL file into the DotNetNuke SQL Module
• How to edit and execute a SQL query in the DotNetNuke SQL Module

Time length: 5mins

In this tutorial we demonstrate how to quickly administrate modules on a page through the use of SQL queries.

We demonstrate how to move and delete modules from one content pane to another using several techniques and introduce you to using ‘SELECT’, ‘UPDATE’ and ‘DELETE’ SQL queries.

Following this we demonstrate how you can use SQL queries to copy existing modules to a page. This is for modules that are not set to display on all pages, and is the equivalent of using the admin control panel and selecting ‘Add Existing Module’.

The videos cover:

• Video 1 - Introduction, Deleting Modules Using SQL
• Video 2 - Deleting Modules from a Page, Moving Modules to a New Content Pane in a Page
• Video 3 - How to Move Modules on All Pages to New Content Panes
• Video 4 - How to Copy an Existing Module to a Page using SQL
• Video 5 - Using 'INSERT' queries to Copy Modules

Total Time Length: 35mins