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Updated October 2006

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

The announcements module is useful for directing the visitors of your website to the latest content that you have created. Typically you will see the announcements module in use on the home page of a website.

Announcements consist of a title and description with the option of linking to a file, page, or a URL.

The videos cover:

• Video 1 – Introduction, adding the various announcement types
• Video 2 – Configuring the announcement module settings, editing, deleting

Total Time Length: 19mins

DotNetNuke Announcements Module

Continuing our series on How to build a DotNetNuke website, we expand on the previous tutorial (Styling and formatting in the Text/HTML module) and add content to the Home and Portfolio pages of the Vortex Music website.
The first three videos of this tutorial focus on the Home page, in particular working with the Text/HTML module and the FCKEditor. We demonstrate the best practices when working with the Text/HTML module as well as working with images, uploading files and formatting the text.

The second half of the tutorial (6 videos) focuses on the portfolio page. We demonstrate how to programme the skin.css file and the FCKEditor so that you can quickly and easily create the Portfolio credits list. This page is created using just CSS, no tables are used and no images or formatting are placed in the source code of the page. The Portfolio page is styled completely using the skin.css file.

This tutorial outlines what not to do when working with the Text/HTML module. We then outline the methods that you should use when adding content to the Text/HTML module.

This is a list of practices we have come across when beginners first use the Text/HTML module which you should try to avoid.

Continuing our series on How to build a DotNetNuke website, we are now going to explore adding content to the Vortex Music website.

This tutorial focuses on the methods you can use to add content to your website using the Text/HTML module.

In particular using the FCKEditor in combination with calling classes from the skin.css file to format the text and images within the Text/HTML module.

The video tutorials demonstrate step by step how you can create CSS classes to format your images and text.

The videos cover:

• Video 1 – Introduction and practices to avoid
• Video 2 – First CSS styling and setting up the FCKEditor
• Video 3 – CSS styles for images and quotes
• Video 4 – CSS styles for images with captions
• Video 5 – FCKEditor and setting up a styles list
• Video 6 – Using the FCKEditor to call styles from the skin CSS file

Total Time Length: 61min

We demonstrate how you can create the following layouts without using any additional containers or tables...

This DotNetNuke® Video Tutorial demonstrates the DotNetNuke® Core News Feed (RSS) module, covering:

• Adding the module to a page
• Selecting an RSS feed to display from moreover.com
• Adding an RSS feed to the module
• Uploading an XSL transformation style sheet to format the RSS feed
  

Time length: 6:01 min
Download Size: 4.4MB

This DotNetNuke® Video Tutorial demonstrates:

• Adding the module to a page
• How to add an image
• How to upload an image
• Setting alternate text
• Width & Height
• Displaying an image without the container
• Scaling an image and file size

Time length: 5:26 min
Download Size: 4.7MB