DNN Creative Magazine for DotNetNuke

DotNetNuke Core Reports Module - 7 Videos

andyadmin — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 10:00:00 GMT

In this DotNetNuke training series we demonstrate some of the vast capabilities of the Core DNN Reports module.

We will walk you through step by step how to create some simple SQL queries and use simple HTML mark-up to create several useful and interesting reports, from here you will be able to expand on and adapt these reports to your site needs.

We create the following reports:

A list of all tables and columns within the DotNetNuke Database
A list of users and their last activity date
The number of users per security role
The keywords, description and site map priority of all public pages (with page view and page settings links)
Number of pages (tabs) created per user with links to a list of pages created by a specific user.

The videos contain:

Part 1 - Introduction, Installation, Creating a DNN Database Structure Report
Part 2 - Table Prefix and Creating a ‘Last User Activity’ Report
Part 3 - Creating the DotNetNuke SEO Report Stage 1
Part 4 - HTML Template Visualizers and Creating the DotNetNuke SEO Report Stage 2
Part 5 - TabID’s and Completing the DotNetNuke SEO Report
Part 6 - Introduction To Dynamic Reports and Creating the ‘Content by User’ Report
Part 7 - URL Parameters and Completing the ‘Content by Specific User’ Report

DotNetNuke 6 - A Second Look (2 Videos)

andyadmin — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:00:00 GMT

DotNetNuke 6 is about to be released, in this video we will be taking a look at the DNN 6 RC. Following on from our 'First Look Videos', We'll walk you through the major changes in this latest release. The DNN 6 Release Candidate includes all of the new features planned for the final stable version and features the all new 'Dark Knight' default skin.

This video contains:

Introduction
The new pop up styling
The admin control menus
The modules admin menu
The DotNetNuke extensions gallery
Installing a free skin from the DNN forge
Purchasing an extension from Snowcovered
The ‘purchased extensions’ tab
A look at the newly styled available and installed extensions pages
The all new module actions menu

Keeping Your DotNetNuke Site Alive (2 Videos)

andyadmin — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 10:05:00 GMT

In this tutorial we demonstrate how to reduce your DotNetNuke site load time and show you how to take advantage of the services offered by keepaliveforever.com

One of the most common complaints from Webmasters who use DotNetNuke and various other ASP.NET Applications is the long initial load time after a period of inactivity.

In order to keep your site constantly running, there are two easy ways around this: either run a keepalive service on your local computer, or, use a cloud-based KeepAlive service.

Video 1 - Registering your site and how to interpret site statistics

Explanation of the ASP.NET worker process
Registering on keepaliveforever.com
Instructing the service to monitor your website
Testing keepaliveforever can access your site
How to view your site statistics
How to interpret your site statistics

Video 2 - Visit Status, Content Monitoring

Understanding the visit status
Introduction to content monitoring
How to check for content that should be on the page
Receiving the ‘your website is down’ email
Interpreting the email
Interpreting the visit failure reports
How to check for content that should not be on the page

Creating a DotNetNuke jQuery Announcements Slider (Video Tutorial))

andyadmin — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 10:00:00 GMT

In this tuotorial, we demonstrate how to convert the standard DotNetNuke Announcements module into a jQuery Animated Content Slider. We show you how to adapt the announcements module layout template code and how to implement the jQuery files and CSS.

The jQuery animation allows you to present your announcements in a visually impressive and intuitive way. See the DNN jQuery Announcements Slider in action.

In this tutorial we cover:

Video 1 - Preparing the Announcements Module and adding the jQuery Files

Creating a new page on your DNN website to contain the slider
Adding the Announcements Module to the page
How to create new announcements
How to add the required files to your skin folder

Time Length: 6min 23sec

Video 2 - Adding the jQuery and CSS Styles

Opening the demo code
Adapting the Announcements module template code
How to add the jQuery scripts to your skin ASCX file.
How to add the slider control code to your skin ASCX file.
How to add the required CSS styles into your skin.css file
Making the page live
Testing the jQuery Announcements module.

Time Length: 7min 30secs

Total Time Length: 13min 53secs

Creating a DotNetNuke jQuery Announcements Slider (Video 1 of 2)

andyadmin — Thu, 19 May 2011 10:00:00 GMT

This video tutorial is the first in a series showing you how to convert the standard DotNetNuke Announcements module into a jQuery Animated Content Slider. We show you how to adapt the announcements module layout template code and how to implement the jQuery files and CSS.

The jQuery animation allows you to present your announcements in a visually impressive and intuitive way. See the DNN jQuery Announcements Slider in action.

In this first tutorial we cover:

Video 1 - Preparing the Announcements Module and adding the jQuery Files

Creating a new page on your DNN website to contain the slider
Adding the Announcements Module to the page
How to create new announcements
How to add the required files to your skin folder

Time Length: 6min 23sec

How to Build a Website with DotNetNuke (6 Videos)

andyadmin — Wed, 18 May 2011 10:00:00 GMT

How to build a feature rich website using DotNetNuke with a selection of core DNN modules. We cover installing and configuring the HTML, Links, Forum, Blog, FAQs, Documents, Feedback, and Form and List modules.

The videos contain:

Part 1 - Setting up the Site and Creating the First Page
Part 2 - Creating a ‘Contact Us’ and a ‘Frequently Asked Questions’ Page
Part 3 - How to use the ‘Documents’ Module and Menu Management
Part 4 - Creating the 'Executive Blog' Page and Using the Blog Module
Part 5 - Creating the 'Community Forums' Page using the Forum Module
Part 6 - Creating the 'Request a Quote' Page using the Form and List Module

Total time length: 55 min 27 secs

Advanced DotNetNuke Debugging - Video 4 & 5 of 5 (Complete)

andyadmin — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 09:45:00 GMT

An expert level tutorial on how to debug and troubleshoot a DotNetNuke website, we cover profiling, stack tracing, packet tracing, reverse compiling and more.

Video 4 - Managed Stack Explorer

Managed Stack Explorer vs DotTrace
How to get Managed Stack Explorer
Exploring Processes
Exploring Threads
Exploring Stack Traces
Identifying the Problem

Video 5 - WireShark

What is WireShark?
How do you get a copy of it?
Starting up WireShark
The problem: A broken flash module
Our first Wire-Tap
Converting Packets to Streams
Exploring the Flash Module's Stream
Identifying the Flash Module's Problem

How to Build a Website with DotNetNuke - Video 4

andyadmin — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 09:41:00 GMT

Video 4 - Creating the 'Executive Blog' Page and Using the Blog Module

Creating the ‘Executive Blog’ Page
Installing the Blog module
Configuring the Blog module
Writing a sample blog

Time Length: 8min 36secs

How to Build a Website with DotNetNuke - Video 2 & 3

andyadmin — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 10:00:00 GMT

How to install core modules in DotNetNuke
How to install the Feedback Module for the Contact Us page
Configuring the Feedback Module
How to create a 'Frequently Asked Questions' Page
Installing the FAQs Module
How to add questions and answers to the FAQs module
How to improve the look of the FAQs module

Time Length: 9min 04secs

Video 3 - How to use the ‘Documents’ Module and Menu Management

Creating a Documents Page
Installing the Documents Module
Using the Documents Module
Creating the 'Resources' Page
Configuring the 'Frequently Asked Questions' Page as a Child Page using the Ribbon Bar
Configuring the 'Documents' Page as a Child Page using Page Settings
How to configure the 'Resources' Page to redirect to the 'Frequently Asked Questions' Page.

Time Length: 9min 59secs

Advanced DotNetNuke Debugging - Video 3

andyadmin — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 03:31:00 GMT

An expert level tutorial on how to debug and troubleshoot a DotNetNuke website, we cover profiling, stack tracing, packet tracing, reverse compiling and more.

Video 3 - DotTrace

How to get DotTrace
Running DotTrace
Profiling IIS
A word of Warning
Collecting Performance Data
Understanding the Thread Tree and Call Tree
Exploring the Call Tree
Diagnosing the Performance Issue

Time Length: 4min 46secs

Advanced DotNetNuke Debugging - Video 1 & 2

andyadmin — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 09:00:00 GMT

An expert level tutorial on how to debug and troubleshoot a DotNetNuke website, we cover profiling, stack tracing, packet tracing, reverse compiling and more.

Video 1 - Introduction to Profilers

Introduction
What are Profilers?
Two Kinds of Profilers
How to use Profilers to find Problems
Two common types of performance problems
Common Profiler Tools

Time Length: 2min 39secs

Video 2 - SQL Profiler

How to get SQL Profiler
Running SQL Profiler
Connecting to a Database Server
Recreating the Performance Problem
Understanding SQL Profiler's Data

Time Length: 4min 08secs

How to Build a Website with DotNetNuke - Video 1

andyadmin — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 10:00:00 GMT

Logging in for the first time
How to change the Admin User name and password
Changing the Host User's credentials
Configuring the website to send email
How to give your website a name
How to change the website logo
Choosing your user registration mode
Creating the 'About Us' Page
Configuring a page to be visible to all users

Time Length: 9min 37secs

Issue 64 - DotNetNuke Forum Module and SiteMaps

andyadmin — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 09:03:00 GMT

January 2011

Welcome to Issue 64 of DNN Creative Magazine

In this issue we explore in detail the core DotNetNuke forum module and the search engine SiteMap feature in DotNetNuke.

We demonstrate step by step how to use and fully configure the core DotNetNuke forum module. The forum module allows users to have conversations in the form of posted messages and is a great way to build a community on your website as well as provide daily new content for the search engines to index.

The core forum module has many possible configurations, these include creating public, private / subscription and moderated forums, allowing attachments, pinning and locking posts, emailing replies and managing user settings such as rankings, avatars, word filters and creating polls.

This module should cover most of your requirements for a forum in your DotNetNuke website.

Next we demonstrate how to use the DotNetNuke Search Engine Sitemap. This feature in DotNetNuke allows you to automatically create a XML Sitemap which can be submitted to search engines such as Google.

A sitemap provides the search engines with an index of the pages from your website that they may not otherwise discover using their search bots and includes information such as the page URLs, date when a page was last updated and the importance of that page in relation to the other pages on your website.

Sitemaps help to ensure a search engine can fully index your website and are an essential tool for any webmaster. We walk you through how to automatically create a site map using DotNetNuke and also how to submit the sitemap to Google using the Google Webmaster tools.

This issue comes complete with 11 videos.

Core Modules:	DotNetNuke Core Forum Module (9 videos - 86mins)
	DotNetNuke Search Engine SiteMap (2 videos - 21mins)

View issue 64 to download all of the videos in one zip file

DNN Creative Magazine for DotNetNuke Web Designers
Covering DotNetNuke module video reviews, video tutorials, mp3 interviews, resources and web design tips for working with DotNetNuke.

In 64 issues we have created 674 videos!

DotNetNuke Core Forum Module - 9 Videos

andyadmin — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 09:00:00 GMT

In this tutorial we walk you through how to install and configure the core DotNetNuke Forum Module. The Forum Module can be configured in several different ways to suit your requirements. Features include forum moderation, quick reply, attachments, post ranking, avatars and polls. We show you how to setup a forum using several different configurations.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - Introduction to the DotNetNuke Core Forum Module
Video 2 - Forum General Settings and Options Configuration
Video 3 - Forum Email, Creating Groups, User Settings
Video 4 - Forum User Settings, Creating Private / Subscriber Forums
Video 5 - Forum Moderation, Forum Polls
Video 6 - Forum General, Community, File, RSS, SEO Settings
Video 7 - Configuring the Forum User Settings
Video 8 - Forum Content Configuration
Video 9 - Forum Email Configuration

Total Time Length: 85min 31secs

DotNetNuke Search Engine Sitemap - 2 Videos

andyadmin — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 08:57:00 GMT

In this tutorial we provide a detailed demonstration of how to implement and use the Core DotNetNuke Search Engine Sitemap Module. This module is very useful to achieve good correct search engine listings, we show you step by step how to create your site map and set correct and automatic page level priorities. The Sitemap module allows you to submit your sitemap to Google, Bing and Yahoo.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - DotNetNuke Search Engine SiteMap Configuration
Video 2 - How to Submit a Sitemap to Google, Bing and Yahoo!

Total Time Length: 20min 49secs

Issue 63 - Smith Shopping Cart and InteractiveWebs Advanced Login

andyadmin — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 10:06:00 GMT

December 2010

Welcome to Issue 63 of DNN Creative Magazine

In this issue we focus on how DotNetNuke can be used to enhance or create a business.

To begin we provide video tutorials on Ecommerce and the Smith-Consulting Shopping Cart module. This module has all of the key features that you would expect from a store module, but it is also user friendly for setup and also usability for your customers.

The module allows you to create unlimited products, sell downloadable or physical goods, provide custom shipping, credit card processing, discounts, affiliate tracking and more.

Following this in the next set of video tutorials we demonstrate in detail the Advanced Login module by InteractiveWebs. This module features a Facebook connector, jQuery Popup, Skin Login and Region data import tool and allows you to customize the look and feel over the login and user registration process giving your DotNetNuke websites a professional user experience.

To finish, in our podcast this month we discuss the ways that we have encountered using DotNetNuke to run or enhance the running of a business. From simple subscription based websites through to large scale websites with 3000 child portals and 38,000 employees sharing documents. We discuss how DotNetNuke can benefit your business with its built-in functionality as well as the DotNetNuke community and the resources from third party developers for custom modules.

This issue comes complete with 13 videos.

Premium Modules:	DotNetNuke Smith Shopping Cart (8 videos - 73 mins)
	InteractiveWebs Advanced Login Module (5 videos - 48 mins)
Podcasts:	How DotNetNuke Enhances Business (28mins)

View issue 63 to download all of the videos in one zip file

DotNetNuke Smith Shopping Cart - 8 Videos

andyadmin — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:21:00 GMT

In this tutorial we walk you through how to install and use the Smith Consulting Shopping Cart module. This module is a fully featured DotNetNuke store module capable of all the usual store features and more. The module design focuses on ease of use for both the store administrator and the store users. We show you how to setup a store with Smith Cart and how to add products, categories and related products. We also cover the other features Smith Cart offers including affiliate tracking.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - Introduction, Installation, Initial Setup
Video 2 - How to Setup the Default Country, Tax and How to Customize the Checkout
Video 3 - Configuring the Confirmation Pages and Working with Categories
Video 4 -Adding Products
Video 5 - Categorizing Products and SEO
Video 6 - Testing the Checkout Procedure and Adding the Category Menu Module
Video 7 - Adding the Mini Cart, Featured Products and My Account Modules to a Page
Video 8 - Configuring Customer Reviews and Affiliate Tracking

Total Time Length: 73min 06secs

InteractiveWebs DotNetNuke Advanced Login Module - 5 Videos

andyadmin — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:19:00 GMT

In this tutorial we provide a detailed demonstration of how to implement the DotNetNuke Advanced Login Module by InteractiveWebs. The Advanced Login Module features a Facebook connector, jQuery Popup, Skin Login and Region data import tool. You can also redirect users to specific pages based on their security role or block users based on their IP address. We show you step by step how to install and setup these powerful features.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - How to Install Advanced Login and Facebook Authentication
Video 2 - Configuring the Advanced Login Module
Video 3 - Enabling Popup Login, Email Templates, Configuring Facebook Login
Video 4 - Configuring the Advanced Login Module as the Default Login in DotNetNuke
Video 5 - Popup Login for Login Skin Tokens, Look and Feel, Redirection

Total Time Length: 48min 12secs

DotNetNuke Podcast, How DotNetNuke Enhances Business

andyadmin — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:12:00 GMT

This is a 28 minute podcast discussion between Lee Sykes (DNNCreative) and David Finley from InteractiveWebs.com. In this Podcast we begin to discuss how DotNetNuke can enhance businesses, we talk about DotNetNuke’s vast array of features and how to use them to your advantage.

This podcast covers the following subjects:

Ways that you have encountered using DotNetNuke to run or enhance the running of a business
Key elements of DotNetNuke for a business website
Login and registration
Management of users and setting up subscription access
Advantages of digital content and setup costs of an online business
Time to create is very quick
Landing pages
Form modules
DotNetNuke custom profile properties
Sharing profile data between modules
Bulk email messages
Schedule process and automatic occurrence of events
Automation of daily tasks
DotNetNuke subscription tools
MLM companies and 3000 DotNetNuke child portals with auto templates
Custom module development
Document management and sharing for business
Airline industries with 38,000 employees using a portal website
DotNetNuke community and module developers

Issue 62 - Evotiva DNNBackup and DNN Garden DDR Menu for DotNetNuke

andyadmin — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 10:55:00 GMT

November 2010

Welcome to Issue 62 of DNN Creative Magazine

In this issue we cover in detail how to achieve reliable and comprehensive DotNetNuke backups and show you how to implement and customize DNN Garden’s free DDR Menu for DotNetNuke

To begin, we walk you through how to install and use the advanced Evotiva DNNBackup module, this module is not only capable of performing complete file and database backups but it can be scheduled to perform any of its varied backup types on a regular basis including file backups, database backups, DNN log truncation and database shrinking.

Backups can be automatically transferred to a remote location such as an FTP server, Amazon S3 server or Rackspace Cloudfiles, plus a backup can be restored to a new server without the need for a DotNetNuke installation by following the simple restore wizard.

Following this we provide a detailed tutorial on how to implement and style the DDR Menu in your DotNetNuke skins. The DDR Menu is a free SEO friendly menu system from DNN Garden. The DDR menu comes with 6 different menu styles including the Treeview menu, the Superfish menu, the Accordion menu, the Dropdown menu, the Artisteer menu and the Mega menu.

Following this we continue our tutorials on DotNetMushrooms Rapid Application Development software, we show you how to implement the jsTree control within your DNM applications to create impressive jQuery tree style menu systems.

Finally we introduce the next two instalments in our new series of podcasts with David Finley from interactivewebs.com. In the first podcast we talk about the trials and tribulations of email in DotNetNuke, we discuss SMTP and how to configure SMTP in DotNetNuke. We then move on to discuss all the different mapping technologies available and their potential within a DNN installation.

In our second podcast this month we discuss in detail the importance of complete and reliable backup systems for all DotNetNuke websites, beginning with a few horror stories from Lee we discuss and provide advice on all the different site backup strategies available for DotNetNuke and the advantages / disadvantages of backup systems provided by hosting companies.

This issue comes complete with 13 videos.

Premium Modules:	Evotiva DNNBackup Module for DotNetNuke (7 videos - 62 mins)
Skinning:	DNN Garden - DDR Menu for DotNetNuke (6 videos - 56 mins)
Module Development Series:	Making use of the jsTree Control in DotNetMushroom RAD
Podcasts:	DotNetNuke Podcast, Email and Mapping in DotNetNuke (37mins)
	DotNetNuke Podcast, DNN Backup Methods and Advice (24mins)

View issue 62 to download all of the videos in one zip file

Evotiva DNNBackup Module for DotNetNuke - 7 Videos

andyadmin — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 10:49:00 GMT

In this tutorial we walk you through how to install and use the DNNBackup module from Evotiva. This module is an impressive backup and restore utility boasting features such as automatic backups to remote servers such as FTP, Amazon S3 and Rackspace Cloudfiles. It can also operate on shared servers such as GoDaddy, WebHost4Life, DiscountASP and PowerDNN. In this tutorial we show you how to create detailed backup schedules and we demonstrate how to restore your backup to a new DotNetNuke installation using the DNNBackup Restore Pack.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - Introduction, How to Download and Install the DNNBackup Module
Video 2 - How to Configure Database and File System Backups
Video 3 - General Settings and FTP Setup
Video 4 - Setting up Scheduling
Video 5 - Setting up a New Localhost Website Ready for Website Restoration
Video 6 - Restoring to a New Website from a DNN Backup
Video 7 - Restoring the File System from a DNN Backup

Total Time Length: 62min 22secs

DNN Garden - DDR Menu for DotNetNuke - 6 Videos

andyadmin — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 10:49:00 GMT

In this tutorial we provide a detailed demonstration of how to implement and customize the DDR Menu by DNN Garden. The DDR Menu comes complete with 6 different menu styles such as TreeView and Mega-Menu. The menus can simply be installed as a direct replacement for the standard DNN Solpart or DNN Nav menus to aid in search engine optimization. We show you how to achieve the best from each menu and how to fully customize the Mega menu styling to match your skin.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - Introduction, Downloading, Installation and Skin Setup
Video 2 - Adding the DDR Menu to a Skin and How to Change Animation Settings
Video 3 - Implementing the DDR Treeview Menu
Video 4 - Implementing the DDR Superfish and Mega Menu
Video 5 - Styling the DDR Mega Menu
Video 6 - Styling the Mega Menu and Using the Menu Module

Total Time Length: 55min 38secs

DotNetNuke Podcast, DNN Backup Methods and Advice

andyadmin — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 10:46:00 GMT

This is a 24 minute podcast discussion between Lee Sykes (DNNCreative) and David Finley from InteractiveWebs.com recorded on the 30th of October 2010. In this Podcast we talk through the importance of comprehensive and reliable website backups. There are several different backup options available to a DotNetNuke webmaster and we have a detailed look into each method and talk about the advantages and reliability of each.

This podcast covers the following subjects:

Backups
The importance of a backup
Lees horror story
Check that the backup works
How to backup your DotNetNuke files and folders
How to backup your DotNetNuke SQL database
How to automate your backups with DotNetNuke hosting
Plesk and hosting control panels
Microsoft backup service
Semantic backup services
Backing up to the cloud, Amazon S3
Evotiva DNNBackup module
Papayas Auto Upgrade module

Total time: 23min 33secs

DotNetNuke Podcast, Email and Mapping in DotNetNuke

andyadmin — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 10:34:00 GMT

This is a 37 minute podcast discussion between Lee Sykes (DNNCreative) and David Finley from InteractiveWebs.com recorded on the 18th of October 2010. In this Podcast we discuss the complicated subject of email and SMTP inside and outside of DotNetNuke, we then talk about implementing mapping into your DNN website.

This podcast covers the following subjects:

Email Setup
Typical email problems in DotNetNuke
What is SMTP?
SMTP mail servers
How you would typically experience SMTP servers outside of DNN
What is POP3 / Exchange / Webmail?
What traps are there with SMTP servers?
- Relay
- IP lockdown
- Send Limits
- No relay
- Domain lockdown
- SSL
- Ports and restrictions
How does Google and Hotmail play with this?
What do you need to know to configure SMTP in DNN?
How to configure SMTP in DNN
Traps with SMTP in DNN
Admin email address
Locked domain
External domain limits or blocks
Administrator email settings configuration
Maps in DotNetNuke
Introduction to Google Maps
How maps can be useful for data research
How maps can be useful for business and sales teams
Map modules in DotNetNuke
GeoSprawl DotNetNuke Locator module
ZLDNN Advanced Biz Map module
Google Earth
Business data analysis
Data mapped to suburbs
Tally of all people in suburbs and 3D chart developed
Immediately could see where largest registered number of users were on the map
Telco provider able to plot footprint of tower and users
Enables tracking of where next towers need to be built
Locations of handsets at various times of days

Total time: 36min 55secs

Making use of the jsTree Control in DotNetMushroom RAD for DotNetNuke

andyadmin — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 10:30:00 GMT

In this tutorial we show you how to utilize DNM RAD’s abilities to utilize the inbuilt jsTree control to create functional jQuery based tree menus.

Issue 61 - DotNetNuke Mapping Special, Geosprawl Locator and ZLDNN BizMap Module

andyadmin — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 06:18:00 GMT

October 2010

Welcome to Issue 61 of DNN Creative Magazine

This issue is the beginning of Volume 6, so it's our 5th birthday! We would like to say a special thank you to all of you who have supported us over the past 5 years, it means a lot to us.

In this issue we demonstrate two advanced mapping modules available for DotNetNuke.

To begin, we walk you through how to implement and customize ReachOutsides’ GeoSprawl DotNetNuke Locator Module and demonstrate its potential within a DNN portal. We show you how to add several locations onto a map and give your users the power to search for their closest locations to a specified address or postcode, this is ideal for businesses with multiple store locations.

GeoSprawl Locator can be customized to suit all types of business needs, we show you how to customize the layout, display and styling of the module and explain how to customize specific map functions.

Next we take a detailed look at the ZLDNN Biz Map Module, we demonstrate the modules extensive features such as Google Maps integration and how to implement advanced features such as GeoRSS feeds into map layers. ZLDNN BizMap comes packed with four different integrated modules and we walk you through how to install, configure and use each one.

After following these specialised mapping tutorials you will have a good idea of all the features available and how they can benefit your website and your visitors.

Following this we continue our tutorials on DotNetMushrooms Rapid Application Development software, we show you how to implement pre-defined and custom lists for use in a DNM RAD application, this technique saves a large amount of development time by removing the need to create forms and tables to input list data.

Finally we introduce the first in a new series of Podcasts, we invite David Finley from InteractiveWebs.com to talk about the amazing new technology called Microsoft Pivot and the DotNetNuke Pivot module. We then move on to the latest news from the DNN community including the recent ASP.NET security scare.

This issue comes complete with 10 videos.

Premium Modules:	GeoSprawl DotNetNuke Locator Module (5 videos - 41 mins)
	ZLDNN Advanced Biz Map For DotNetNuke (5 videos - 44 mins)
Module Development Series:	Working with Lists in DotNetMushroom RAD
Podcasts:	DotNetNuke, Microsoft Pivot and DNN News (34mins)

View issue 61 to download all of the videos in one zip file

GeoSprawl DotNetNuke Locator Module - 5 Videos

andyadmin — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 06:15:00 GMT

In this tutorial we walk you through how to install and customize the GeoSprawl DNN Locator Module by ReachOutside. This powerful module allows you to place multiple locations such as business branches or offices on a map and a user can search for the nearest locations to a specified address and even get driving directions. We show you step by step how to implement these useful features into your DotNetNuke website.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - Introduction, Overview and How to get a Maps API Key
Video 2 - Customizing the Search Box, Custom Fields, Adding a New Location
Video 3 - Filtering Search Results and Configuring the Search Results Page
Video 4 - Configuring the Search Results Page and How to Implement Advanced Search
Video 5 - Configuring the Advanced Search Function

Total Time Length: 40min 56secs

ZLDNN Advanced Biz Map For DotNetNuke- 5 Videos

andyadmin — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 06:13:00 GMT

In this tutorial we provide a detailed demonstration of the Advanced BizMap Module by ZLDNN. We show you step by step how to install and get the module up and running, we then demonstrate how to implement more advanced features such as layers, GeoRSS feed layers and how to define a maps center based on latitude and longitude data.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - Introduction, Installation, How to Add a New Map and Configuring Map Settings
Video 2 - Working with BizMap Markers, Defining Latitude and Longitude, Driving Directions
Video 3 - Defining the Map Center, Working With Layers
Video 4 - How to Use the GeoRSS Feed Feature and Using the Map View Module
Video 5 - Using the Map List Module and the Marker List Module

Total Time Length: 43min 56secs

Working with Lists in DotNetMushroom RAD for DotNetNuke

andyadmin — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 06:10:00 GMT

In this tutorial we show you how to utilize DNM RAD’s abilities to utilize pre-defined and custom lists for use within an application, this technique can save you hours of time that would otherwise have been spent creating tables and forms for entering list data.

DotNetNuke, Microsoft Pivot and DNN News

andyadmin — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 06:05:00 GMT

This is a 34 minute podcast discussion between Lee Sykes (DNNCreative) and David Finley from InteractiveWebs.com recorded on the 24th of September 2010. In this Podcast we discuss what has been happening with DNNCreative, David talks about the potential of the new Microsoft Pivot technology and we discuss the latest news from the DotNetNuke Community including the recent ASP.NET vulnerability.

This podcast covers the following subjects:

It has been a while
David interviewing Lee, background and what has been happening
DNN Creative background
DotNetNuke businesses and opportunities
Low cost entry into the market
Our 5th birthday
Microsoft Pivot background and explanation
Resources and free videos to view on Pivot
Exploration and manipulation of data
Navigating data as a web rather than page to page, deep diving, finding trends
Interactivewebs.com DotNetNuke Pivot module
Displaying data from a DotNetNuke website
Security roles, portals, logins, countries of registered users
Building a Pivot card and displaying with images
Potential for building Pivot views such as sales
Useful information for advertising with Google Adwords
Important ASP.NET security vulnerability

Total time: 34min 12secs

Issue 60 - DNN Nucleus Skin Designer, Papayas Auto Upgrade and Survey Module

andyadmin — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 05:56:00 GMT

September 2010

Welcome to Issue 60 of DNN Creative Magazine

In this issue we demonstrate the many useful features of the DotNetNuke Nucleus Skin Designer and explain in detail the steps necessary to create your own custom skin.

Nucleus is a new method for creating your own custom skins and containers which allows you to create unique DotNetNuke skins with little or no knowledge of HTML or skin design. Nucleus allows you to design the skin live within your DotNetNuke website which makes it ideal for beginners to skinning and professionals who need to quickly create skin designs for their clients.

We begin by walking you through the installation of the Reactor module and we demonstrate how to fully customize the included ‘Reactor’ skin to your specific requirements. We show you how to create and apply containers from within the Nucleus Skin Designer to compliment the newly customized skin.

Following this we walk you through how to install and use the DotNetNuke core Survey Module. This module has a variety of different features such as the ability to create single or multiple answer questions using radio buttons and checkboxes, you can create public or private surveys and export all of the survey results to a CSV file for use in MS Excel. We demonstrate all of these features by showing you how to create two different surveys.

Next we demonstrate the powerful features of the Papayas Auto Upgrade Module for DotNetNuke. This module is capable of performing a quick automatic upgrade of your DotNetNuke installation with a few clicks, the module also includes a powerful backup feature and an emergency restore function. We show you how to upgrade, restore and even perform an emergency restore on your DotNetNuke installation.

To finish, we continue the series of articles on DotNetMushroom Rapid Application Developer (RAD), where we demonstrate how to create an events calendar.

This issue comes complete with 11 videos.

Skinning:	DotNetNuke Nucleus Skin Designer Tutorial (5 videos - 52 mins)
Premium Modules:	How to use Papayas Auto Upgrade for DotNetNuke (3 videos - 31 mins)
Core Modules:	How to Setup and Use the DotNetNuke Survey Module (3 videos - 24 mins)
Module Development Series:	Creating an Events Calendar for DotNetNuke using DotNetMushroom RAD

View issue 60 to download all of the videos in one zip file

DotNetNuke Nucleus Skin Designer Tutorial - 5 Videos

andyadmin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:20:00 GMT

In this tutorial we review and walk you through the Nucleus Skin Designer for DotNetNuke. We adapt the included Reactor skin and show you how to create a custom skin to your own requirements, No HTML knowledge required, ideal for beginners!

The videos contain:

Video 1 - Introduction, Installing the Module, Applying a Nucleus Skin
Video 2 - The Nucleus Menu, Adding and Removing Optional Tokens, Styling a Skin
Video 3 - Using the Nucleus Skin Designer Inspector, Styling the Nav Menu
Video 4 - Designing Containers with Nucleus Skin Designer
Video 5 - Designing and Applying Containers to a DNN Skin

Total Time Length: 51min 31secs

How to Setup and Use the DotNetNuke Survey Module - 3 Videos

andyadmin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:00:00 GMT

In this tutorial we walk you through step by step how to install, deploy and use the DotNetNuke core Survey Module. We show you how to create two different surveys including single and multiple answer questions, we then demonstrate how to export the results and how to make the survey private.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - Introduction, Installing the Survey Module and Creating Questions
Video 2 - Editing Questions, Changing Survey Settings and Creating a Private Survey
Video 3 - Clearing Survey Results, The Correct Answer Option

Total Time Length: 24min 7secs

How to use Papayas Auto Upgrade for DotNetNuke - 3 Videos

andyadmin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:55:00 GMT

In this tutorial we walk you through the features of the DNNAutoUpgrade module from Papayas, we provide a detailed demonstration of how to automatically upgrade your version of DotNetNuke and then show you how to roll back to a previous backup, as well as perform an emergency restore.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - Introduction, Installing the Module, Overview of Settings
Video 2 - Upgrading DotNetNuke to Latest Version, Restoring to a Previous Version
Video 3 - How to Perform an Emergency Restore, Upgrade from DNN 4.x

Total Time Length: 31min 18secs

Creating an Events Calendar for DotNetNuke using DotNetMushroom RAD

andyadmin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:50:00 GMT

In this tutorial we walk you through how to create a Calendar Application for your DotNetNuke website using DotNetMushroom Rapid Application Developer.

The calendar application will have the ability to add events via a form and then display them in a calendar.

Issue 59 - DotNetNuke Telerik RAD Editor, Introduction and Customization

creativehost — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 10:15:00 GMT

August 2010

Welcome to Issue 59 of DNN Creative Magazine

In this issue we demonstrate how to use and fully customize the new Telerik RAD Editor available in DotNetNuke 5.

The Telerik RAD Editor now replaces the FCK Editor as the default HTML and text editor in DotNetNuke 5. We walk you through its large feature set and show you how to fully customize the editor to suit your own needs.

We show you how to change important settings such as how to instruct the editor to use paragraph tags when you press the enter key rather than break tags. We walk you through how to disable and remove certain buttons and how to use CSS styles for easily styling the text and images in the Telerik RAD Editor.

Next we show you how to change the default text editor that is used in DotNetNuke. This allows you to easily switch to using the FCK Editor or the Telerik RAD Editor, so you can easily choose your favourite text editor in DotNetNuke.

Following this we continue the Open Web Studio tutorials, this month we demonstrate how to implement the vast features of the jQuery User Interface library into your Open Web Studio applications, and we show you how to insert a date picker, auto complete input boxes and a tab system.

To finish, we continue the series of articles on DotNetMushroom Rapid Application Developer (RAD), where we demonstrate how to create charts and display them within your DotNetNuke portals.

This issue comes complete with 16 videos.

Administrators:	DotNetNuke Telerik RAD Editor Introduction (6 videos - 67 mins)
	How to Configure the Telerik RAD Editor in DotNetNuke (6 videos - 62 mins)
	How to Change the Default Text Editor in DotNetNuke (2 videos - 23 mins)
Module Development Series:	Getting Started With jQuery UI in OWS (3 videos - 28 mins)
	Creating Charts Using DNM RAD 1.3 for DotNetNuke

View issue 59 to download all of the videos in one zip file

DotNetNuke Telerik RAD Editor Introduction - 6 Videos

creativehost — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 09:57:00 GMT

In this tutorial we walk you through every feature of the new Telerik RAD Editor, which is now the default editor in DotNetNuke v5. The Telerik RAD editor comes packed full of features such as the image editor, the document manager, a spell checker and an XHTML validation function, we demonstrate each feature before showing you how to fully customize the editor in the next tutorial.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - Introduction, Break Tags vs. Paragraph Tags, Spell Checking, Cut and Paste
Video 2 - Inserting and Editing Images and Media, Working with Documents
Video 3 - Inserting Flash and mp3 Files, Using the Template Manager
Video 4 - Working with Hyperlinks
Video 5 - Formatting Text and Working with Lists
Video 6 - Creating Tables and Image Maps, Stripping Formatting

Total Time Length: 66min 31secs

How to Configure the Telerik RAD Editor in DotNetNuke - 6 Videos

creativehost — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 09:47:00 GMT

In this tutorial we demonstrate how to configure and fully customize the Telerik RADEditor.

Including how to customize the Telerik RAD Editor to your DNN portal requirements. How to remove buttons, how to set the Telerik RAD Editor to use paragraph p tags instead of break br tags, creating custom configuration files, and adding new CSS classes.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - Introduction, Creating a Custom Configuration File
Video 2 - Overview of Editor Settings and Creating a New Toolbar Configuration File
Video 3 - Customising the Telerik RAD Toolbar and Installing an Example Skin
Video 4 - Configuring How the Editor Displays Content
Video 5 - Adding CSS Styles to the RAD Editor - Good Practice
Video 6 - Adding CSS Styles to Wrap Text Around Images

Total Time Length: 61min 58secs

How to Change the Default Text Editor in DotNetNuke - 1 Video

creativehost — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 09:37:00 GMT

In this tutorial we demonstrate how to change the default DotNetNuke text editor from the Telerik RAD Editor back to the previous FCK Editor. Although the Telerik RAD Editor has lots of useful new features, there are some features in the FCK Editor which are still useful such as displaying toolbars related to a users security role and configuring the FCKEditor functions on a portal, module and page basis.

This video tutorial shows you how to easily switch between the Telerik RAD Editor and the FCK Editor and vice versa.

Getting Started With jQuery UI in OWS - 3 Videos

creativehost — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 09:27:00 GMT

In this tutorial we walk you through step by step how to implement jQuery user interface components into your Open Web Studio applications.

We show you how to add a date picker, an intelligent auto complete text box and a tabbed interface.

The vast jQuery library of components allows you to easily provide any web application with an extremely rich user interface.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - Introduction and Preparing a Control Header
Video 2 - Navigating the jQuery Websites and Implementing a Date Picker
Video 3 - How to Implement the Auto Complete and Tabs Components

Total Time Length: 27min 56secs

Creating Charts Using DNM RAD 1.3 for DotNetNuke

creativehost — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 09:19:00 GMT

In this tutorial we show you how to create charts using DotNetMushroom Rapid Application Developer.

The new version of DNM RAD provides a simple to use but advanced control to create charts in a DNM RAD application. We walk you through step by step how to create the source tables followed by a line chart, a bar chart and a pie chart.

Issue 58 - Taxonomy and Folksonomy, New Features in DNN v5

andyadmin — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 07:30:00 GMT

July 2010

Welcome to Issue 58 of DNN Creative Magazine

In this issue we demonstrate how to use the new Taxonomy (Categories) and Folksonomy (User Tags) features introduced from DotNetNuke 5.4 onwards.

These new features allow you to categorize and tag both pages and modules within your DotNetNuke portal. We show you the considerations to make when categorizing the content on your website and how to implement categories and tags within your DotNetNuke site. We also show you how to configure the display of the new tags skin object.

Complimenting the Taxonomy and Folksonomy tutorial we show you how to use the Content List module. This module allows you to display a list of content related to how the content has been tagged.

Following this we demonstrate the new features that have been added to the User Profile section of DotNetNuke from version 5.4 onwards, this covers two new modules: View Profile and Messaging Modules. The View Profile module allows a user to view their own profile and the messaging module allows users to send and receive private messages to other registered users.

Next we show you how to use the new Ribbon Bar Admin Control Panel that is now available with DotNetNuke v5.4 onwards. The Ribbon Bar is an enhanced version of the admin control panel which provides a more efficient way for administrators to manage their DotNetNuke websites.

Following this we continue the Open Web Studio tutorials, this month we demonstrate some advanced techniques for customizing the user experience in your DotNetNuke portal. We take advantage of security controls for managing how your users access and use your portals.

To finish, we continue the series of articles on DotNetMushroom Rapid Application Developer (RAD), where we demonstrate how to implement a DotNetNuke user registration module using DNM RAD.

This issue comes complete with 13 videos.

Administrators:	Taxonomy and Folksonomy in DotNetNuke (4 videos - 34 mins)
	DotNetNuke User Profile Features v5.4 (2 videos - 15 mins)
	DotNetNuke Ribbon Bar Admin Control Panel (2 videos - 23 mins)
Core Modules:	DotNetNuke Content List Module (1 video - 8 mins)
Module Development Series:	OWS Advanced Techniques: User Access and Security (4 videos - 32 mins)
	How to Implement a DotNetNuke User Registration Module Using DNM RAD

View issue 58 to download all of the videos in one zip file

Taxonomy (Categories) and Folksonomy (User Tags) in DotNetNuke - 4 Videos

andyadmin — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 06:47:00 GMT

In this tutorial we show you how to setup and use the new Taxonomy (Categories) and Folksonomy (User Tags) features in DotNetNuke. We walk you through step by step how to categorize the content within your DotNetNuke portals and how to set up the Tags skin object and configure how the categories and tags are displayed on your pages.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - How to Create a Vocabulary with Terms (Categories)
Video 2 - Simple Vocabularies, Assigning Tags to Pages and Modules, Tag Search
Video 3 - Folksonomy - User Tagging and Working with Scope
Video 4 - Working with the Tags skin object

Total Time Length: 33min 52secs

DotNetNuke User Profile v5.4 - 2 Videos

andyadmin — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 06:44:00 GMT

In this tutorial we show you how to use the new View Profile and Messaging features in the new User Profile section of DotNetNuke. We walk you through how to upload a photo to a user profile and how to send private messages to users in a DNN portal.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - The User Profile Page
Video 2 - The Private Messaging System

Total Time Length: 15min 4secs

DotNetNuke Ribbon Bar Admin Control Panel - 2 Videos

andyadmin — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 06:36:00 GMT

In this tutorial we demonstrate how to use the new Ribbon Bar Admin Control Panel. We walk through all of the features, including how to add, edit, delete and move a page, select a skin for the page, select if the page should be included in the menu and also the option to disable the menu.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - Introduction and Explanation of the Current Page Tab Functions
Video 2 - Functions for the Current Page, Admin and Host Tabs

Total Time Length: 22min 31secs

DotNetNuke Content List Module - 1 Video

andyadmin — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 06:32:00 GMT

In this tutorial we walk you through step by step how to use the DotNetNuke Content List module. We show you how to display tagged content from a page or module as a list in the Content List Module.

The video contains:

Video 1 – Introduction

Time Length: 7min 49secs

OWS User Access and Security for DotNetNuke - 4 Videos

andyadmin — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 06:30:00 GMT

In this tutorial we show you some advanced DotNetNuke Open Web Studio techniques for customizing the user experience in your DNN portal. We demonstrate several security controls for managing user access plus how to encrypt and decrypt query strings.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - Creating and Preparing a New OWS Configuration, Compiling User Details for Registering to the Target Portal
Video 2 - How to Automatically Register and Login a Current User Into Another Portal Through a HTML Link
Video 3 - Preparing the Target Portal to Accept the New User from the Source Portal
Video 4 - Authenticating the New User and Testing the Results

Total Time Length: 31min 30secs

DotNetNuke User Registration Module Using DNM RAD

andyadmin — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 06:27:00 GMT

In this tutorial we explain in detail how to create a user registration module using DotNetMushroom RAD. We show you how to create a User Registration Form in DNM RAD and automatically insert these user credentials into the DotNetNuke Users table.

Issue 57 - DotNetNuke Gallery Module and OWS Skin Objects

andyadmin — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 10:54:00 GMT

June 2010

Welcome to Issue 57 of DNN Creative Magazine

In this issue we show you how to use the DotNetNuke Core Gallery Module. The Gallery module allows you to upload files and present them within albums. You can upload images as well as media files such as music and video files.

The Gallery module has many features available such as multiple albums, bulk upload, categorization, slideshow, display templates, voting, downloads, watermark and private gallery. This is a useful module for displaying images and media within your DotNetNuke portal with options for customizing the display to suit your exact requirements. We walk you through step by step how to install, use and fully configure the DotNetNuke Gallery module.

Following this we continue the Open Web Studio tutorials, this month we demonstrate how to create a Skin Object from an OWS configuration. We show you how to create a menu and a feedback form using OWS and how to display those OWS applications as Skin Objects within a DotNetNuke skin.

To finish, we continue the series of articles on DotNetMushroom Rapid Application Developer (RAD), where we demonstrate some of the new features available in the latest version of DNM RAD, these include: Creating a new data source, creating a linked table, creating a direct query and the new colour coding editor.

This issue comes complete with 9 videos.

Core Modules:	DotNetNuke Gallery Module (7 videos - 57 mins)
Module Development Series:	How to Create a Skin Object from an OWS Configuration (2 videos - 18 mins)
	New Features in DNM 01.20.00

View issue 57 to download all of the videos in one zip file

DotNetNuke Gallery Module - 7 Videos

andyadmin — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 10:18:00 GMT

In this tutorial we cover the Installation of the DotNetNuke Core Gallery Module and show you how to configure it correctly.

We walk you through how to use all of the features in the Gallery module including creating albums, uploading files, bulk uploads, the slideshow, media files, watermarks, templates, and more.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - Introduction to the DNN Gallery Module, Installation and Basic Configuration
Video 2 - How to Upload Images and Configure Their Settings
Video 3 - Creating Gallery Albums and Bulk Uploading
Video 4 - How to Add Files and Albums Using FTP, Adding Music and Changing Permissible Upload Types
Video 5 - How to Add Video Files, How to Rate Files, Gallery Look and Feel
Video 6 - Changing Feature Settings, Adding Watermarks, Gallery Security Roles
Video 7 - Working with Private Galleries and Security Roles, Gallery Maintenance

Total Time Length: 57mins

How to Create a DotNetNuke Skin Object from an OWS Configuration - 2 Videos

andyadmin — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 10:13:00 GMT

In this tutorial we walk you through how to create and place Open Web Studio skin objects directly into your DotNetNuke skin.

We cover how to create an OWS menu and feedback form and how to convert those modules into DNN Skin Objects.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - Building the New OWS Configuration and Creating the Menu System
Video 2 - Placing the OWS Skin Object within the Skin File and Creating a Feedback Skin Object

Total Time Length: 18mins

New Features in DNM 01.20.00 for DotNetNuke

andyadmin — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 09:58:00 GMT

In this tutorial we look at the new features of DNM RAD and walk you through how to create a new data source, creating a linked table, creating a direct query and we preview the new color coded editor in DNM RAD 1.2 for DotNetNuke.

Issue 56 - Super Stylesheets Skinning in DotNetNuke 5

creativehost — Tue, 04 May 2010 05:24:00 GMT

May 2010

Welcome to Issue 56 of DNN Creative Magazine

In this issue we show you how to use the powerful new Super Stylesheets skinning feature in DotNetNuke 5.

Super Stylesheets are ideal for both beginner and experienced skin designers, they provide skin layouts using CSS. The advantage of Super Stylesheets is that you can easily create a skin layout which works in all browsers without the need to learn complex CSS techniques.

They are also very quick to build and you can change a skin layout in a matter of minutes rather than hours. We show you how to build a skin from the very beginning using Super Stylesheets, we show you how to create various skin layouts, as well as multi-layouts. We also show you how to style the skin, how to add tokens such as the logo, menu, login links etc. and walk you through how to create a fully working skin from scratch.

Following this we continue the Open Web Studio tutorials, this month we demonstrate how to create an installable DotNetNuke PA module using OWS. This is an essential technique which allows you to package up the OWS applications that you have created and build them into an installable zip package. The zip file is then installable as a standard DotNetNuke module which means you can easily install your OWS applications on other DotNetNuke installations by simply installing them as a standard DotNetNuke module.

To finish, we have part six of the "How to Build a News Application with DotNetMushroom Rapid Application Developer (RAD)" article, where we demonstrate how to create a News Carousel using RAD, JQuery and the JCarousel plugin.

This issue comes complete with 15 videos.

Skinning:	Super Stylesheets Skinning in DotNetNuke 5 - DNN Layouts (12 videos - 98mins)
Module Development Series:	How to Create an Installable DotNetNuke PA Module Using OWS (3 videos - 23mins)
	How to Implement a News Carousel Using DotNetMushroom RAD and JQuery

View issue 56 to download all of the videos in one zip file

Skinning with DotNetNuke 5 Super Stylesheets Layouts - 12 Videos

creativehost — Tue, 04 May 2010 04:46:00 GMT

In this tutorial we demonstrate how to use Super Stylesheets in DotNetNuke for quickly and easily designing the layout of your DotNetNuke skin.

Super Stylesheets are ideal for both beginner and experienced skin designers, the advantage of Super Stylesheets is that you can easily create a skin layout which works in all browsers without the need to learn complex CSS techniques.

We show you how to build a skin from the very beginning using Super Stylesheets.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - Introduction to the Super Stylesheets DNN Layouts and Initial Setup
Video 2 - Setting Up the Skin Layout Template Code
Video 3 - Using the ThreeCol-Portal Layout Template for a Skin
Video 4 - How to Add Tokens to the Skin
Video 5 - Setting Background Colors for Content Panes and Creating CSS Containers
Video 6 - How to Create a Footer Area and Reset the Default Styles
Video 7 - How to Style the Text in the Content, Left and Right Panes
Video 8 - SEO Skin Layouts for DotNetNuke Tokens
Video 9 - Creating Several Skin Layouts Using the Layout Templates
Video 10 - Further Layout Templates and MultiLayout Templates
Video 11 - SEO Layout Template Skins
Video 12 - Final SEO Positioning of the Skin Code

Total Time Length: 97min 53secs

How to Create an Installable DotNetNuke PA Module Using OWS - 3 Videos

creativehost — Tue, 04 May 2010 04:38:00 GMT

In this tutorial we demonstrate how to create an Installable DotNetNuke PA (Private Assembly) Module using Open Web Studio.

A PA module is a standard module that you would install using the host menu / extensions option in DotNetNuke.

Throughout the tutorial we show you how to create a basic Contacts application using Open Web Studio and then how to package the OWS application so that it can be installed as a module to any DotNetNuke installation.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - How to Build a Contacts and Settings OWS Module
Video 2 - How to Create the DNN Installable PA Module Files
Video 3 - How to Create and Test the Installable PA Module Zip File

Total Time Length: 22min 46sec

How to implement a News Carousel Using DotNetMushroom RAD and JQuery

creativehost — Tue, 04 May 2010 04:34:00 GMT

In this tutorial we demonstrate how to create a News Carousel using the DotNetMushroom RAD Module, JQuery and the JCarousel plug-in.

This article is a continuation of the How to Implement Paging using DotNetMushroom RAD. We will be adding some new forms into the News Application using the DotNetMushroom RAD Module. Using JQuery and the JCarousel plug-in we will implement two News Carousel designs.

Issue 55 - Skin Object Tokens, Optimized Control Panel, OWS Validation and Security, RAD

creativehost — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 05:54:00 GMT

April 2010

Welcome to Issue 55 of DNN Creative Magazine

In this issue we focus on the new Skin Object token method introduced in DotNetNuke 5 for adding tokens into a DotNetNuke skin. A Skin Object Token is a web user control which covers skin elements such as the logo, menu, search, login links, date, copyright, languages, links, banners, privacy, terms of use, etc.

Following this we demonstrate how to install and use two Advanced DotNetNuke Admin Control Panels which are available for free from Oliver Hine. These control panels provide an optimized version of the admin control panel to improve performance and page load times, as well as a ribbon bar control panel which adds additional features.

Next, we continue the Open Web Studio tutorials, this month we demonstrate some very advanced techniques for building a car parts application in Open Web Studio. Throughout the tutorial we cover form input, validation, how to use dependant drop down lists, populating checkbox lists and introduce a new concept of data level security. Data level security allows you to control which data a user can access within a module.

To finish, we have part five of the "How to Build a News Application with DotNetMushroom Rapid Application Developer (RAD)" article, where we demonstrate how to implement paging.

This issue comes complete with 14 videos.

Skinning:	Skin Object Tokens for DotNetNuke 5 (8 videos - 64mins)
Free Module:	Advanced Optimized Control Panel by Oliver Hine (1 video - 11mins)
Module Development Series:	Form Validation, Dependant Drop Downs and Data Level Security in OWS (5 videos - 44mins)
	How to Implement Paging with DotNetMushroom RAD

View issue 55 to download all of the videos in one zip file

Skin Object Tokens for DotNetNuke 5 - 8 Videos

creativehost — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 08:37:00 GMT

In this tutorial we demonstrate how to use Skin Object Tokens in DotNetNuke v5 and above. Skin Object tokens are a new skinning method introduced in DotNetNuke 5 for adding tokens into a DotNetNuke skin.

A Skin Object Token is a web user control, it covers skin elements such as the logo, menu, search, login links, date, copyright, languages, links, banners, privacy, terms of use etc.

This new Object token method has been introduced into DotNetNuke with the idea of making it simpler to add a skin object into a DotNetNuke skin.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - Introduction to HTML Object Token Skinning
Video 2 - Basic Styling of a Skin and Creating Multiple Content Panes
Video 3 - Styling, Control Panel, Login and Register Skin Object Tokens
Video 4 - Packaging, Installing, Testing and Viewing the ASCX Version of the Skin
Video 5 - Viewing the Attributes for Skin Object Tokens, Logo Token, Search Token
Video 6 - Breadcrumb Token, Text Token and Localization, Links Token
Video 7 - More Skin Tokens and Token Replacement
Video 8 - Demonstration of the Object Tokens and Bug Fixing

Advanced Control Panel Modules - OliverHine.com for DotNetNuke - Video

creativehost — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 08:33:00 GMT

How to install and use 2 Advanced Administrator Control Panels for DotNetNuke. This includes an optimized version for faster page load times and a Ribbon Bar version for improved features.

The video contains:

Introduction
Optimised control panel
Page load time test result improvements
Ribbon Bar control panel
Features of the Ribbon Bar
How to download the advanced control panel
How to install the advanced control panel
How to apply one of the advanced control panels to your DotNetNuke installation
How to use the Ribbon Bar control panel
Page view modes
Page functions
Add functions
Add module functions
Copy an existing module
Reference an existing module
Common Tasks
Demonstration of the various control panel view options available

Time Length: 10min 47secs

Form Validation, Dependant Drop Downs, Data Level Security in OWS for DotNetNuke - 5 Videos

creativehost — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 08:27:00 GMT

In this tutorial we demonstrate some very advanced techniques for building a car parts application in Open Web Studio.

Throughout the tutorial we cover form input, validation, how to use dependant drop down lists, populating checkbox lists and introduce a new concept of data level security. Data level security allows you to control which data a user can access within a module.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - How to Setup Form Validation
Video 2 - Car Parts Application, Assigning Security Roles into a Global Session Variable
Video 3 - How to Build the Categories Module with Data Level Security
Video 4 - How to Build the SubCategories Module and Use SubQuery
Video 5 - How to Build the Car Parts List Module

Total Time Length: 44min 19secs

How to Implement Paging Using DotNetMushroom RAD

creativehost — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 08:22:00 GMT

In this tutorial we demonstrate how to add paging functionality using the DotNetMushroom RAD Module. We cover how to create, setup the properties, style, and add multiple paging controls to the same form.

This article is a continuation of the How to Style the News Application Built with DotNetMushroom RAD article. We will be adding paging controls to the News Application using the DotNetMushroom RAD Module.

Issue 54 - DotNetNuke Feedback, DataSprings Dynamic Registration, OWS Login and Twitter, RAD

creativehost — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:48:00 GMT

March 2010

Welcome to Issue 54 of DNN Creative Magazine

In this issue we begin by demonstrating how to use and configure the DotNetNuke Feedback module. The feedback module allows the visitors of your website to send you feedback from a form in your DotNetNuke portal. We show you various options for configuring this module, including how to set it up so that a user can choose which department in a company to send feedback to and also how to allow users to submit testimonials and display those testimonials on your website.

Following this we cover the much anticipated part 2 of DataSprings Dynamic Registration module quick start guide. This tutorial demonstrates how to build more complex registration forms and interlink several registration forms together. This tutorial will enable you to create your own flexible custom registration forms to suit your own requirements.

Next, we continue the Open Web Studio tutorials, this month we enhance the OWS Login module that we have previously created by adding a "Remember Me" checkbox and a "Forgot Password" link. We also demonstrate how to create a Twitter module which pulls the search results from Twitter directly into an Open Web Studio module.

To finish, we have part four of the "How to Build a News Application with DotNetMushroom Rapid Application Developer (RAD)" article, where we demonstrate how to use Language Resource Files in the News application.

This issue comes complete with 15 videos.

Core Modules:	Feedback Module (4 videos - 34mins)
Premium Modules:	DataSprings Dynamic Registration Module Part 2 (7 videos - 68mins)
Module Development Series:	Enhancing the OWS Login Module and Building a Twitter Module (4 videos - 35mins)
	Language Resource Files With DotNetMushroom RAD for full Localization

View issue 54 to download all of the videos in one zip file

DotNetNuke Feedback Module - 4 Videos

creativehost — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:13:00 GMT

In this tutorial we demonstrate how to use the DotNetNuke Core Feedback Module. The Feedback Module allows the visitors of your website to send you feedback from a form in your DotNetNuke portal. We demonstrate how to email feedback to departments in a company, how to display testimonials on your website. Moderating feedback, configuring lists, categories and subjects.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - Introduction, Initial Setup of the Feedback Module
Video 2 - Feedback Lists, Feedback Categories and Subjects
Video 3 - Further Configuration of the Feedback Module Settings
Video 4 - How to Create Testimonials Feedback, Feedback Comments, Moderation

Total Time Length: 33min 49secs

DataSprings Dynamic Registration Module for DotNetNuke Part 2 - 7 Videos

creativehost — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:05:00 GMT

This tutorial is part 2 of the Quick Start Guide to using DataSprings Dynamic Registration Module.

In this tutorial we demonstrate how to build the next part of the registration form which allows the user to enter their full profile details. This tutorial shows you how to create a separate registration form for the users full profile and how to capture different data dependant on the security role of the user. We walk you through building forms which contain drop down lists, check box groups, uploading of documents, uploading of images, and text editors.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - Introduction, Initial Setup of Profile Registration Page
Video 2 - Building the Full Profile Registration Page
Video 3 - Working with Images, Text Editors and File Attachments
Video 4 - Interlinking Two Dynamic Registration Forms, Assigning DNN Core Fields
Video 5 - Building a Third Dynamic Registration Form for Editing Full User Profile Details, Import and Export
Video 6 - Configuring the Third Registration Module
Video 7 - Testing, AJAX, Validation, Useful Functions

Total Time Length: 68min 6secs

Enhancing the OWS Login Module and Building a Twitter Module for DotNetNuke - 4 Videos

creativehost — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:57:00 GMT

In this tutorial we enhance the OWS Login module that we have previously created and also show you how to build an OWS Twitter module.

We enhance the OWS Login module by adding a "Remember Me" checkbox and a "Forgot Password" link. We also demonstrate how to create a Twitter module which accesses the Twitter API and formats the display of the search results.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - How to Create a "Remember Me" Login Feature
Video 2 - How to Build a Random Password Generator
Video 3 - How to Request the User to Update Their Password
Video 4 - How to Create a Twitter Module Using OWS

Total Time Length: 34min 40secs

Language Resource Files in DotNetMushroom RAD Applications

creativehost — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:50:00 GMT

In this tutorial we demonstrate how to make use of Resource Files using the DotNetMushroom RAD module for DotNetNuke in order to provide Multi Language functionality to the Forms.

This article is a continuation of the How to Implement Multi-Language Using DotNetMushroom RAD article. In the previous article, we discussed how DNM RAD handles Multi Language Data within Forms. However, in this article, we will be setting up the News Application to make use of Resource Files in order to provide Multi Language functionality to the Forms.

DotNetNuke Recycle Bin - Video

creativehost — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 03:57:00 GMT

In this tutorial we demonstrate how to use the Recycle Bin in DotNetNuke.

Any modules or pages that are deleted in your DotNetNuke portal are placed in the recycle bin and are not physically deleted. This allows you to easily recover any accidentally deleted modules or pages and is often a useful feature that is overlooked in DotNetNuke.

We demonstrate how to fully use the Recycle Bin and get the most from this useful feature. We also show you how to permanently delete items to ensure that your Database is regularly cleaned of old content.

DataSprings Dynamic Registration DotNetNuke Module Quick Start Guide Part 1 - 6 Videos

creativehost — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 03:52:00 GMT

In this tutorial we provide a quick start guide to using DataSprings Dynamic Registration module. The Dynamic Registration module is a very powerful module for quickly creating custom registration forms without the need for editing the core DotNetNuke code.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - Introduction, Demonstration of Registration Options and Installation
Video 2 - Dynamic Registration Control Panel and Drag & Drop Functions
Video 3 - How to Create Custom Form Fields and Configure the Fields
Video 4 - Using the Advanced Wizard and Question Events
Video 5 - Completion Events and DNN Core Integration
Video 6 - Display Name Configuration and Hiding Form Fields to Security Roles

Total Time Length: 56mins

Working with File Action in OWS for DotNetNuke - 3 Videos

creativehost — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 03:49:00 GMT

In this tutorial we demonstrate working with File Action in your DotNetNuke Open Web Studio configurations.

The File Action is a very flexible action which provides many possibilities for working with files on your website. In this tutorial we walk you through three examples, these cover: How to edit a file on your website, how to upload a file to your website and also how to import an Excel or CSV file into a table within your SQL database.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - Introduction, How to Edit a File on Your Website
Video 2 - How to Upload a File to Your Website, Creating a Contacts SQL table and CSV file
Video 3 - Configuring file action to run a SQL Query and import the data from the CSV file into the Contacts SQL table

Total Time Length: 21min 44secs

How to Implement Multi-Language Using DotNetMushroom RAD

creativehost — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 03:26:00 GMT

This tutorial demonstrates how to implement Multi-Language functionality using the DotNetMushroom RAD Module.

This article is a continuation of the How to Style the News Application Built with DotNetMushroom RAD article. We add Multi-Language features to the News Application via the RAD Module.

DotNetMushroom Rapid Application Developer (RAD) is a new application builder for DotNetNuke. It was launched at OpenForce Europe’09. The scope of RAD is to allow a user or developer to build an application which is made up of tables, queries, and forms.

Issue 53 - DotNetNuke Module Administration, DataSprings Dynamic Registration, File Action OWS, Localization with RAD

creativehost — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 03:10:00 GMT

February 2010

Welcome to Issue 53 of DNN Creative Magazine

In this issue we focus on Module Administration, in particular configuring how to limit which modules are available to use in the control panel (Premium Modules), how to configure which modules non-administrators can add to a page, and also working with the DotNetNuke Recycle bin. Each of these elements are important to ensure your website administrators get the most from their DotNetNuke portals.

Following this we provide part one of a quick start guide to using DataSprings Dynamic Registration module. This is a very powerful module which enables you to quickly create a custom registration form without the need for editing the DotNetNuke core code. Most users require a customized registration process for their visitors and this module allows you to achieve this easily, we walk you through a custom registration form which demonstrates a selection of the registration options available.

Next we continue the Open Web Studio tutorials, this month we demonstrate working with File Action in your OWS configurations. File Action provides many possibilities for working with files in your website, including: How to edit a file on your website, how to upload a file to your website and how to import an Excel or CSV file into a table within your SQL database.

To finish, we have part three of the "How to Build a News Application with DotNetMushroom Rapid Application Developer (RAD)" article, where we demonstrate how to implement Multi-Language functionality in the News application.

This issue comes complete with 12 videos.

Administrators:	How to Limit Modules Available in the Control Panel (Premium Modules) (1 video - 8mins)
	How to Configure Which Modules Non-Administrators Can Add to a Page (1 video - 9mins)
	DotNetNuke Recycle Bin (1 video - 7mins)
Premium Modules:	DataSprings Dynamic Registration Module Quick Start Guide Part 1 (6 videos - 56mins)
Module Development Series:	Working with File Action in Open Web Studio (3 Videos - 22mins)
	How to Implement Multi-Language Localization With DotNetMushroom RAD

View issue 53 to download all of the videos in one zip file

How to Limit Modules Available in the Control Panel (Premium Modules) - Video

creativehost — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 03:04:00 GMT

In this tutorial we demonstrate how to limit which modules are available to use in the control panel of a DotNetNuke portal (Premium modules).

We show you how to set a module to a premium module and also how to assign a module to a premium module in multiple portals and limit which modules are displayed in the admin control panel.

How to Configure Which DotNetNuke Modules Non-Administrators Can Add to a Page - Video

creativehost — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 03:01:00 GMT

In this tutorial we walk you through how to configure which modules a non-administrator can add to a page. This applies to user where you have given them edit permissions for a page, but they do not have full administration access privileges. In DotNetNuke 5, we can select which modules a user can add to a page based on their security roles.

Issue 52 - DotNetNuke Nav Menu v2, Custom Login Module OWS, Styling App with RAD

creativehost — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 03:38:00 GMT

January 2010

Welcome to Issue 52 of DNN Creative Magazine

In this issue we demonstrate in-depth, how to style the Nav Menu v2 for DotNetNuke 5 using the new CSS Control feature. We walk you through creating three different menu types: a multicolored menu, where we demonstrate how easy it is to style elements such as the first and last items in a menu, all sub menus, or even the id of a menu item, these techniques allow you to create very stylized menus. Following this we show you how to create an image only menu and a menu which uses a combination of images and text using the html separator feature. This tutorial shows you how easy it is to style the Nav Menu v2 to suit your own requirements.

Next we continue the Open Web Studio tutorials, this month we demonstrate how to create a custom login and registration module, the benefit of this is that you can perform custom processing, not only after login, but also after registration.

To finish, we have part two of the "How to Build a News Application with DotNetMushroom Rapid Application Developer (RAD)" article, where we demonstrate how to style the News Application using HTML and CSS.

This issue comes complete with 15 videos.

Skinning:	Nav Menu v2 for DotNetNuke v5 (11 videos - 97mins)
Module Development Series:	How to Create a Custom Login Module with OWS (4 videos - 34mins)
	How to Style the DotNetNuke News Application with DotNetMushroom RAD

View issue 52 to download all of the videos in one zip file

Nav Menu v2 for DotNetNuke 5 - 11 Videos

creativehost — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 03:29:00 GMT

How to style the Nav Menu v2 for DotNetNuke 5. Covering CSS Control, how to create a multicolor menu, an image only menu, plus an image and text menu using HTML separators. Advanced techniques to help you style the DNN Nav Menu exactly as you require.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - Introduction and Setup
Video 2 - How to Style the NavMenu using CSS Control Class
Video 3 - How to Target and Style First and Last Menu Items and Sub Menus (MultiColored Menu)
Video 4 - How to Style Single Menu Items using IDs and Specific Paths
Video 5 - How to Style Menu Items in a Specific Path (Sub Menus)
Video 6 - How to Create an Image Only Menu
Video 7 - How to Create an Image Only Menu, Removing Text and Displaying Images
Video 8 - How to Display the Admin and Host Menus in an Image Only Menu
Video 9 - Styling the Sub Menu of a Root Image Only Menu
Video 10 - How to Create a Button Menu (Using HTML Separators)
Video 11 - Styling the HTML Separators for the Button Menu

Total Time Length: 96min 44secs

How to Create a Custom DotNetNuke Login Module with OWS - 4 Videos

creativehost — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 03:23:00 GMT

How to create a custom Login and Registration module for DotNetNuke using R2i Open Web Studio (OWS). Video tutorial demonstrates how to test, display messages, confirm passwords and assign security roles.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - Introduction, Initial Configuration of OWS Login Module
Video 2 - Testing for Successful Login, Displaying Messages, Redirecting to a Page
Video 3 - How to Create a User Registration Form
Video 4 - Testing for Successful Registration, Assigning Security Roles, Displaying Messages

Total Time Length: 33min 38secs

How to Style a DNN News Application Built with DotNetMushroom RAD

creativehost — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 03:17:00 GMT

This article is a continuation of the "How to Build a News Application with DotNetMushroom RAD" article . We demonstrate how to style the News Application via HTML and CSS.

The objective of this article is not a tutorial on HTML and CSS styling but rather on how HTML and CSS can be applied through the DotNetMushroom RAD.

DotNetMushroom Rapid Application Developer (RAD) is a new application builder for DotNetNuke. It was launched at OpenForce Europe’09. The scope of RAD is to allow a user or developer to build an application which is made up of tables, queries, and forms.

Issue 51 - Installing DotNetNuke 5 to Windows 7, Module Permissions, Portal Signup OWS, News App with RAD

creativehost — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:50:00 GMT

December 2009

Welcome to Issue 51 of DNN Creative Magazine

In this issue we demonstrate how to install DotNetNuke 5 to Windows 7, we walk you through step by step the configuration of Windows 7; how to install and configure the required programmes for DotNetNuke, how to install DotNetNuke to Windows 7, plus some additional troubleshooting steps.

Following this we explore the new page and module permissions in DotNetNuke 5. The new view permission options allow you to choose exactly who can view the content on your website. We show you in detail various configurations that you can setup for the modules and pages of your website.

Next we continue the Open Web Studio tutorials, this month we demonstrate how to create a Portal Signup module using OWS. We show you how to create a portal template, how to create a portal signup form and how to create validation tests to ensure the portal is created successfully.

To finish we cover the DotNetMushroom Rapid Application Developer (RAD) where we walk you through an introduction to RAD by creating a simple News Application.

This issue comes complete with 10 videos.

Administrators:	How to install DotNetNuke to Windows 7 (5 videos - 52mins)
	DotNetNuke Page and Module Permissions (2 videos - 18mins)
Module Development Series:	How to Create a Portal Signup Module with OWS (3 videos - 20mins)
	How to Build a News Application with DotNetMushroom RAD

View issue 51 to download all of the videos in one zip file

How to Install DotNetNuke to Windows 7 - 5 Videos

creativehost — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:30:00 GMT

How to Install DotNetNuke to Windows 7. Step by step videos, we cover which software programmes to install, how to configure the software and set it up for DNN. How to install DotNetNuke, plus we also provide troubleshooting and two methods for installing DotNetNuke.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - Introduction, Configuring Windows 7
Video 2 - How to install SQL Server 2008 Express
Video 3 - Configuring IIS and the DotNetNuke files
Video 4 - How to Install DotNetNuke
Video 5 - Troubleshooting and How to Install DotNetNuke by Manually Creating a Database

Total Time Length: 51min 34secs

DotNetNuke 5 Page and Module Permissions - 2 Videos

creativehost — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:23:00 GMT

In this tutorial we demonstrate how you can take advantage of the new page and module view permission options in DotNetNuke 5 to choose exactly who can view the content on your website.

In the latest version of DotNetNuke, an addition has been made to the permissions area where you now have 3 options available for assigning view and edit permissions. These options are, a user does not have view permissions, a user has view permissions, and a user is denied view permissions, these permission options are available for both the pages and modules in DotNetNuke.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - Working with Page and Module Permissions
Video 2 - Demonstration of the New DENY Permissions in DotNetNuke

Total Time Length: 17min 52secs

How to Create a Portal Signup DotNetNuke Module with OWS - 3 Videos

creativehost — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:19:00 GMT

How to create a DotNetNuke Custom Portal Signup Module using R2i Open Web Studio (OWS). Covering creating a portal template, portal configuration, the signup form and validation to ensure successful portal creation.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - Introduction and Initial Configuration of the OWS Create Portal Module
Video 2 - How to Create a Portal Using OWS and Validation Tests
Video 3 - Validation, Copy and Paste Functions, Testing the Create Portal Module

Total Time Length: 19min 45secs

How to Build a DotNetNuke News Module with DotNetMushroom RAD

creativehost — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:14:00 GMT

DotNetMushroom Rapid Application Developer (RAD) is a new application builder for DotNetNuke. It was launched at OpenForce Europe this year. The scope of DNM RAD is to allow a user or developer to build an application which is made up of tables, queries, and forms.

This is a quick start guide to using DNM RAD. In this article we demonstrate how to create a table for news items, create a form to insert or edit news records, and display the results in another form.

Issue 50 - DotNetNuke 5 Admin Modules Access, Reset Logins, iPhone OWS

creativehost — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:40:00 GMT

November 2009

Welcome to Issue 50 of DNN Creative Magazine

In this issue we demonstrate how to setup a limited administrators access account. This option is only available from DotNetNuke version 5 onwards where the administrator modules can now be added to any page and configured for any user to access and use the features of the administrator modules.

In this tutorial we configure DotNetNuke for members of staff so that the admin and host menus are not available, but they can view a Staff menu which gives them access to a selection of administrator modules. In this example we demonstrate how to configure the Pages, Security Roles, User Accounts, Newsletters and File Manager administrator modules.

Following this we demonstrate how to reset the Host SuperUser and Administrator accounts in DotNetNuke when you have lost the username and password. We regularly receive enquires regarding how to access a DotNetNuke website when you have lost the login details. This tutorial walks you through an easy way to reset the host and admin accounts through the SQL database of your DotNetNuke installation.

Continuing the Open Web Studio tutorials, this month we demonstrate how to create an iPhone app with OWS. We show you how to detect the iPhone browser and redirect the user to a custom page which displays data from various modules across the DotNetNuke portal.

This issue comes complete with 13 videos.

Administrators:	How to Limit Access to Administrator Modules in DotNetNuke 5 (5 videos - 42mins)
	How to Reset Host and Admin Login Details (4 videos - 32mins)
Module Development Series:	How to Create an iPhone App with OWS (4 videos - 36mins)

View issue 50 to download all of the videos in one zip file

How to Limit Access to Administrator Modules in DotNetNuke 5 - 5 Videos

creativehost — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:56:00 GMT

In this tutorial we demonstrate how to setup a limited administrators access account. This option is only available from DotNetNuke version 5 onwards where the administrator modules can now be added to any page and configured for any user to access and use the features of the administrator modules.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - Introduction, Configuration of Admin Page and Admin User
Video 2 - How to Create a Security Roles Page for Members of Staff
Video 3 - How to Configure User Accounts, Console and Newsletters Modules
Video 4 - How to Configure the FileManager Module
Video 5 - How to Configure the Tabs Module

Total Time Length: 42min 10secs

How to Reset Host and Admin Login Details in DotNetNuke - 4 Videos

creativehost — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:53:00 GMT

In this tutorial we demonstrate how to reset your Host SuperUser and Administrator accounts in DotNetNuke when you have forgotten the username and password.

Even if you know the username to your Host user account, you will find that if you request the password via email, it will send the email, but for the Host user account, the password will be replaced with asterisks, so this will not help you to recover your details and login.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - Introduction, How to Connect to a Live SQL Server Database
Video 2 - How to Reset the Host User Account
Video 3 - How to Reset the Administrator User Account
Video 4 - How to Create SQL Queries to Reset the Admin and Host User Accounts

Total Time Length: 32min 26secs

How to Create an iPhone App with OWS - 4 Videos

creativehost — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:49:00 GMT

In this tutorial we demonstrate how to create an iPhone application for DotNetNuke using OWS. We show you how to detect the iPhone and send the user to a custom page which displays data from various modules across the DotNetNuke portal.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - Introduction, How to Detect the iPhone and Redirect it to an iPhone Compatible Page
Video 2 - How to Add Links to Use iPhone Apps, Create Main Menu, Configure Fetching Data Message
Video 3 - How to Display Content from the Links module to the iPhone
Video 4 - Testing and How to Display Content from the Announcements module

Total Time Length: 35min 30secs

Issue 49 - DotNetNuke 5 Skin Packaging, Spam and SQL, OWS

creativehost — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:31:00 GMT

October 2009

Welcome to Volume 5 / Issue 49 of DNN Creative Magazine

This issue is the beginning of Volume 5, so it's our 4th birthday! We would like to say a special thank you to all of you who have supported us over the past 4 years, it means a lot to us.

In this issue we demonstrate how to package skins for DotNetNuke 5. DotNetNuke 5 has introduced a new method of packaging skins using a .dnn manifest file. This allows you to install your entire skins, containers and skin objects using one skin zip installation package. It also allows you to display owner, release notes and a license which the user must agree to the terms before installing the skin. This makes the installation process much more streamlined and less prone to user error. In the tutorial we walk you through all of the steps required for creating skin packages along with tips, pitfalls to avoid and the various ways in which you can configure a DotNetNuke 5 skin package.

Following this we have an advanced tutorial which explores methods to combat spam in your website. In particular we focus on Active Forums and show you how to create scheduled SQL queries to prevent spam displaying in your forum. Spam can be a time consuming nuisance to both the administrators and the visitors of your website, so this tutorial helps you to automate the prevention of spam.

Next we are continuing with the Open Web Studio tutorials. Last month we completed the six part series on 'How to Build a Public Knowledge Base Module with OWS'. This month we are pleased to announce that Paul Deschenes has agreed to continue creating OWS tutorials, so this month we demonstrate how to create an email form using OWS. We demonstrate how to build the email form, how to create the logic for sending the form, as well as how to attach a file to an email and how to validate the email when it is sent to ensure deliverability.

To finish this issue we have a podcast interview with Joe Brinkman, in this podcast we discuss OpenForce Europe and USA, the latest DotNetNuke Corporation news, as well as a tip on relative URLS with SSL.

This issue comes complete with 13 videos and 1 podcast!

Tutorials:

Skinning:	How to Package a Skin for DotNetNuke 5 (8 videos - 89mins)
Administrators:	Forum Maintenance - SQL Automation for SPAM (4 videos - 36mins)
Module Development Series:	How to Create an Email Form with OWS (1 video - 12mins)
Podcast:	Joe Brinkman OpenForce Interview (35 mins)

View issue 49 to download all of the videos in one zip file

How to Package a Skin for DotNetNuke 5 - 8 Videos

creativehost — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:24:00 GMT

In this tutorial we demonstrate how to package a skin for DotNetNuke 5. This method is the new method which includes a .dnn manifest file

The new DotNetNuke 5 method provides additional options when installing. For instance, you can display release notes and a license which the user must agree to before they can install the skin. It also provides the possibility to automatically install any skin objects that your skin requires at the same time, for instance if you are using a menu.

This makes the installation process for the end-user much more streamlined and much less prone to errors. However this method of packaging requires a little more work from the skin developer and that is what we cover in detail in this tutorial.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - Introduction, How to Configure the DotNetNuke 5 Skin Package
Video 2 - How to create thumbnail preview images for a skin
Video 3 - How to Create the Skin, Container, Skin Object Installation Packages
Video 4 - How to combine the Contents of the Skin, Container, Skin Object Packages
Video 5 - Skin Package .dnn Manifest File
Video 6 - Merging the .dnn Manifest Files
Video 7 - Creating, Installing and Testing the Skin Installation Zip Package
Video 8 - How to Create a Skin .dnn Manifest File Using the Components Method

Total Time Length: 89min 13secs

DotNetNuke Forum Maintenance - SQL Automation for SPAM - 4 Videos

creativehost — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:06:00 GMT

This tutorial explores methods to combat spam in your DotNetNuke website. In particular we focus on Active Forums and show you how to create scheduled SQL queries to prevent spam displaying in your forum. Spam can be a time consuming nuisance to both the administrators and the visitors of your website, so this tutorial helps you to automate the prevention of spam.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - Introduction, Basic Steps for Discouraging Spam
Video 2 - Typical Spammer Profiles, Giving Users Trusted Access Using SQL
Video 3 - Creating the SQL Query to Combat SPAM
Video 4 - How to Schedule the SQL Query

Total Time Length: 35min 56secs

How to Create an Email Form with OWS - Video

creativehost — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:05:00 GMT

In this tutorial we demonstrate how to create an email form using Open Web Studio for DotNetNuke. We demonstrate how to build the email form, how to create the logic for sending the form, as well as how to attach a file to an email and how to validate the email when it is sent to ensure deliverability.

The video contains:

Introduction
How to create the email form module
How to link the module to the SendEmail configuration
How to remove the automated templates that are not required
How to add a HTML form to the 'No Query' template
How to build the logic for the Send Email form
Creating the email content to send logic
Creating the email attachment logic
How to setup an action variable to test if the email was successful and display a message
Testing the Send Email form

Time Length: 11min 53secs

OpenForce 09, DotNetNuke News with Joe Brinkman

creativehost — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 01:59:00 GMT

This is a 35min podcast interview with Joe Brinkman from the DotNetNuke core team. In this podcast we discuss OpenForce Europe and USA, the latest DotNetNuke Corporation news, as well as a tip on relative URLS with SSL.

The podcast covers the following:

What is OpenForce?
OpenForce Europe and USA, speakers, sessions and useful information
DotNetNuke Corporation News
Snowcovered acquired, Marketplace closed
Upcoming DotNetNuke 5.2 release and the platform changes, minimum requirements
CodePlex Foundation announcement, benefits to the community
DotNetNuke tips
Using relative URLs to auto switch between HTTP and HTTPS
DNN Creative News
Getting Married
Volume 5 and our 4th Birthday!

Issue 48 - DotNetNuke 5 Introduction and Open Web Studio Tutorials

creativehost — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:49:00 GMT

September 2009

Welcome to issue 48 of DNN Creative Magazine

In this issue we focus on getting started with DotNetNuke 5. These tutorials will help you to quickly find elements that have moved since version 4 and will also help a beginner to get started using DotNetNuke.

We begin with a Quick Start Guide to using DotNetNuke 5, this tutorial helps you to get started with DotNetNuke without getting confused in all of the finer details. We demonstrate securing DotNetNuke, how to use modules, pages, skins and containers. This tutorial will help you to quickly understand the basics of using DotNetNuke and allow you to quickly add content and change the layout of your pages as you require.

Following this we show you how to install a core module in DotNetNuke 5. If you have used a previous version of DotNetNuke you may be wondering where the core modules have moved to, this tutorial will provide all of the information you need.

Next we demonstrate how to install a module in DotNetNuke 5. We show you how to download the free digFlash module and install it using both the install extensions method and how to automatically install a module using FTP.

We then demonstrate how to install skins and containers in DotNetNuke 5. The method has slightly changed since version 4, so this will help you to learn the new methods quickly. We demonstrate how to install a legacy v4 skin package to DotNetNuke 5, how to install a skin to a single portal and to all portals in your DotNetNuke installation, as well as how to auto install a DotNetNuke skin using FTP.

To complete the DotNetNuke 5 tutorials for this month, we then demonstrate the new Content Staging Workflow options for the Text / HTML module in the Community Edition of DotNetNuke 5. We show you how to create a draft version, how to publish a draft version, how to view and preview the version history of the Text / HTML module as well as how to roll back to a previous version of the Text / HTML module.

This is a useful new feature for the Text / HTML module which makes it much easier for administrators to manage their content through the use of drafts and reverting back to previous versions.

To finish this issue, we have the final part in our 6 part series on how to build module interfaces with Open Web Studio. This episode covers 'Making it Cool - Creating a Mashup,' we work with social networking, APIs and web services. We demonstrate how to place a 'Send This to a Friend' email link on each Knowledge Base article, how to integrate AddThis for bookmarking and sharing content to social networking sites such as Twitter. We demonstrate how to share an article on Facebook using the Facebook API and to finish we demonstrate how to integrate, search and display Yahoo! Answers via their API. Some powerful features are introduced to help you get the most from the modules you build using OWS.

This issue comes complete with 14 Video Tutorials.

Tutorials:

Beginners:	DotNetNuke 5 Quick Start Guide - Free (6 videos - 59mins)
	How to install a Core Module in DotNetNuke 5 - Free (1 video - 3mins)
	How to install a module in DotNetNuke 5 - Free (1 video - 11mins)
	How to install a skin in DotNetNuke 5 - Free (2 videos - 18mins)
Administrators:	DotNetNuke 5 Community Edition HTML Module Content Staging Workflow (1 video - 9mins)
Module Development Series:	Making it Cool - Creating a Mashup - Part 6 of 6 – How to Build a Public Knowledge Base with OWS (3 videos - 34mins)

View issue 48 to download all of the videos in one zip file

Making it Cool - Creating a Mashup in Open Web Studio for DotNetNuke - 3 Videos

creativehost — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:08:00 GMT

In this tutorial we add some cool features to our OWS Knowledge Base Article module, this covers social networking and working with APIs and web services.

Including: Send This to a Friend email, AddThis social bookmarks, Facebook Share API, integrating Yahoo! answers API. These are powerful techniques to enhance your OWS Modules.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - How to Build an 'Email to a Friend' function
Video 2 - How to Add Social BookMarks with AddThis and Share on Facebook
Video 3 - How to Display and Search Yahoo Answers via their API

Total Time Length: 34min 21secs

Content Staging Workflow DotNetNuke 5 Community Edition HTML Module - Video

creativehost — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:58:00 GMT

In this tutorial we demonstrate the new Content Staging Workflow options in the Community Edition of DotNetNuke 5.

The Content Staging Workflow options in the Community Edition of DotNetNuke apply to the Text / HTML module. We show you how to create a draft version, how to publish a draft version, how to view and preview the version history of the Text / HTML module as well as how to roll back to a previous version of the Text / HTML module.

The video covers:

Video 1 - DotNetNuke 5 Community Edition HTML Module Content Staging Workflow

Time Length: 8min 46secs

DotNetNuke 5 Quick Start Guide - 6 Free Videos

creativehost — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:45:00 GMT

In this free video tutorial we provide a quick start guide to using DotNetNuke 5.

This tutorial will help you get started using DotNetNuke without getting into all of the finer details, once you've got to grips with this tutorial you can then explore the other video tutorials on DNN Creative Magazine and those tutorials will help you to get the most from your DotNetNuke portal.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - Introduction, Configuring and Securing Admin and Host User Accounts
Video 2 - Introduction to Admin Functions, How to Add a Module to the Page
Video 3 - How to Add a Text / HTML Module to the Page
Video 4 - How to Install and Configure the Links Module
Video 5 - How to Use Containers and Skins in DotNetNuke
Video 6 - Logo, How to Create Pages and Move Modules

Total Time Length: 59min 15secs

How to Install a Core Module in DotNetNuke 5 - Free Video

creativehost — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:42:00 GMT

In this Free tutorial we demonstrate how to install the DotNetNuke Core Module Extensions in DotNetNuke 5.

If you have used previous versions of DotNetNuke and you are wondering where the core modules have moved to, or if you are a beginner to DotNetNuke and would like to install the additional free core modules that come as default with DotNetNuke, this tutorial will provide all of the information you need.

Video 1 - How to install DotNetNuke Core Modules in DNN 5

Demonstration of core modules location in previous versions of DotNetNuke
DotNetNuke 5 extensions
How to install available extensions
How to install multiple DotNetNuke core modules at the same time

Time Length: 2min 46secs

How to Install a Module in DotNetNuke 5 - Free Video

creativehost — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:34:00 GMT

In this free tutorial we demonstrate how to install a standard module to DotNetNuke 5.

There are many modules available to extend the functionality of your DotNetNuke website, some of the modules require you to purchase them from websites, such as snowcovered.com and there are also many free modules available as well.

In this tutorial we demonstrate how to install a module using the Install Extensions method and also how to auto install a module using FTP.

The video contains:

Video 1 - How to Install a Module in DotNetNuke 5

Time Length: 11min 16secs

How to Install a Skin in DotNetNuke 5 - 2 Free Videos

creativehost — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:25:00 GMT

In this free video tutorial we demonstrate how to install skins and containers in DotNetNuke 5.

If you have used an earlier DotNetNuke version, the installation has changed slightly, or if you are a beginner to DotNetNuke this should help you get up to speed quickly.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - How to Install a Skin in DotNetNuke 5
Video 2 - How to Test a Skin, How to Auto Install a Skin

Total Time Length: 18min 14secs

Issue 47 - DotNetNuke Nav Menu and Open Web Studio Tutorials

creativehost — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 09:07:00 GMT

August 2009

Welcome to issue 47 of DNN Creative Magazine

In this issue we continue the ASCX method of skinning from the previous issue and now delve into the DotNetNuke NavMenu.

The NavMenu is the default menu that comes with DotNetNuke and is available in DotNetNuke versions 4 and 5. We demonstrate how to configure and setup the NavMenu in your DotNetNuke skins, how to create a horizontal menu, vertical menu and both a horizontal and vertical menu on the same page.

Throughout the tutorial we show you the various attributes that are available for configuring the menu as well as CSS code for styling the design of the menu.

Accompanying the skinning, we have part five in our tutorial series on how to build module interfaces with Open Web Studio. In this episode we demonstrate debugging, enhanced reporting, importing records and scheduling. Each of these techniques is a powerful tool for working with OWS. We show you how to troubleshoot bugs in your OWS applications, how to export reports to Microsoft Excel CSV and Word documents, how to import data from a csv file, and how to schedule your OWS configuration using the DotNetNuke Scheduler.

This issue comes complete with 16 Video Tutorials.

Tutorials:

Skinning:	DotNetNuke NAV Menu (11 videos - 95mins)
Module Development Series:	Debugging, Enhanced Reporting, Importing Records and Scheduling - Part 5 of 6 – How to Build a Public Knowledge Base with OWS (5 videos - 38mins)

View issue 47 to download all of the videos in one zip file

DotNetNuke Nav Menu Skinning - 11 Videos

creativehost — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 09:00:00 GMT

In this tutorial we demonstrate the DotNetNuke NavMenu. The NavMenu is the default menu that comes with DotNetNuke, we demonstrate how to configure and setup the NavMenu in your DotNetNuke skins and how to create a horizontal menu, vertical menu and both a horizontal and vertical menu on the same page.

To begin the tutorial we demonstrate how to create a basic 1pane simple skin and add the NavMenu to your skin. The first menu we create is a horizontal menu, we show you how to add a background faded image to the menu, how to set the styling for hover over, the breadcrumb trail styling for the menu, (ie. the currently selected page) and how to work with the various attributes that are available for the NavMenu.

Following this we create a vertical menu and then demonstrate how to display both a vertical and horizontal menu on the same page. To finish we show you the attributes that are available for configuring which menu items should display when two menus are presented on a page.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - Introduction, Adding a Horizontal Nav Menu to a Skin
Video 2 - An Overview of the Nav Menu Token Attributes
Video 3 - Initial Background Styling and Positioning for the Menu
Video 4 - How to Style the Root Menu Items
Video 5 - Styling the Currently Selected, Mouse Over and Sub Menu Items
Video 6 - Styling the Sub Menu
Video 7 - How to Create a Vertical Menu Skin
Video 8 - How to Style the Vertical Menu
Video 9 - How to Display a Vertical and Horizontal Menu
Video 10 - How to Configure the Display of 2 Nav Menus
Video 11 - Configuring Which Pages to Display in the Vertical Menu

Debugging, Enhanced Reporting, Importing Records and Scheduling in Open Web Studio for DotNetNuke - 5 Videos

creativehost — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:54:00 GMT

This tutorial demonstrates Debugging, Enhanced Reporting, Importing Records and Scheduling in Open Web Studio.

We begin the tutorial by demonstrating how to debug your OWS application using the built in OWS tools. This covers how to debug form variables, session variables, SQL queries, and troubleshooingt problems.

Next we enhance the reporting page that we built in episode 4 provide a facility to export your report to Microsoft Excel CSV files and HTML formatted Word documents.

Following this we enhance the Knowledgebase Manager so that it can import records from a CSV file, this allows you to automatically import multiple knowledgebase articles simultaneously.

To finish, we demonstrate how to schedule your OWS configuration using the DotNetNuke Scheduler. We demonstrate how to setup a query which executes each day and checks for any articles that have a pending status.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - Introduction, Debugging, Form Variable Troubleshooting
Video 2 - Debugging Session Variables and SQL Queries
Video 4 - How to Upload New Knowledge Base Articles Using a CSV File
Video 5 - How to Use the DotNetNuke Scheduler with OWS

Issue 46 - DotNetNuke ASCX Skinning and Open Web Studio Tutorials

Richard Wootton — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:26:00 GMT

July 2009

Welcome to issue 46 of DNN Creative Magazine

In this issue we look at the professionals method for creating DotNetNuke skins, ASCX skinning.

We did some quick research via twitter for the preferred method of skinning with the DotNetNuke professionals in the community and 100% of the skinners preferred the ASCX method for skinning.

ASCX skinning provides you with several benefits over the other methods of skinning in DotNetNuke. The main benefit is that it is much quicker to create a skin in DotNetNuke using the ASCX method.

Further benefits include you can make changes live on the website without re-parsing or re-installing the skin, you can instantly see edits and changes you make to your skin code, you can view at a glance all of a skin tokens properties, and a really useful feature is that if you are using Visual Web Developer Express it will suggest the attributes that are available for each of the DotNetNuke tokens.

We demonstrate all of these techniques and show you how to get started with ASCX skinning in DotNetNuke.

Accompanying the skinning, we have part four in our series on the Open Web Studio Tutorials. In this episode we demonstrate how to add personalisation to the knowledgebase module using InterModule Communications and creating a ‘my saved articles’ module. We also demonstrate how to create a Tooltip using JQuery, how to change the “fetching data” message, how to enable Rich Text / HTML articles and how to create a multi-category selection for each knowledgebase article.

Finally, we have a podcast covering the latest DotNetNuke News as well as more tips and tricks.

This issue comes complete with 11 Video Tutorials and 1 Podcast!

Tutorials:

Skinning:	DotNetNuke ASCX Skinning for Professional Skinners (6 videos - 58mins)
Module Development Series:	Personalization, Text Editor, Logging and Reporting in Open Web Studio – Part 4 of 6 – How to Build a Public Knowledge Base with OWS (5 videos - 58mins)
Podcasts:	DotNetNuke News, DataSprings Dynamic Forms, DNN 5.1 Professional, Openforce 09, Snapsis PageBlaster (25mins)

View issue 46 to download all of the videos in one zip file

DotNetNuke ASCX Skinning for Professional Skinners - 6 Videos

Richard Wootton — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:19:00 GMT

This tutorial demonstrate the ASCX method of DotNetNuke skinning. This is the method that the professional DotNetNuke skinners use as it is much quicker to build skins in this way.

We explain the concepts of DotNetNuke ASCX skinning, how to setup Visual Web Developer Express to enable the skin token attribute suggestions, how to use ASCX skin tokens, how to make quick edits to tokens and instantly see them on your DotNetNuke website, how to display two tokens of the same type - for instance two menus, how to use skinpath for images, how to view the attributes that are available for a skin token, how to speed edit CSS code, how to quickly create additional skins using the ASCX method and instantly view them within your DotNetNuke installation, and finally how to work with ASCX Containers.

The videos cover:

Video 1 - Introduction, Pros and Cons of ASCX Skinning
Video 2 - Introduction to ASCX Skin Code and Setup in VWD Express
Video 3 - How to Edit The ASCX Tokens, Configuring the Search Token
Video 4 - How to Display 2 Nav Menus, How to Use SKINPATH for Images
Video 5 - Skin CSS Code Speed Editing in ASCX skins
Video 6 - Containers ASCX skinning

Personalization, Text Editor, Logging and Reporting in Open Web Studio for DotNetNuke - 5 Videos

Richard Wootton — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:01:00 GMT

This tutorial demonstrates how to add personalization to the knowledge base module.

We demonstrate InterModule Communications and create a ‘My Saved Articles’ module. This module allows the user to create their own list of favourite knowledgebase articles.

We demonstrate working with JQuery to create a ToolTip, how to change the “fetching data” message that is displayed for Ajax module refreshes (ie. When searching for an article and the site is loading the data) to an animated GIF and we show how to enable the OWS Text Editor, which allows us to create Rich Text/HTML articles.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - Introduction, Building the Saved Articles Module
Video 2 - Add to My Saved Function, Delete Function, JQuery Tooltip
Video 3 - Fetching Data Customization, Using the Text / HTML Editor
Video 4 - Multi Category Selection for a Knowledgebase Article - OWS Checkboxes (Advanced Technique)
Video 5 - Interactive Logging Techniques, Beginning Reporting - OWS Columns and Column Templates

DotNetNuke News, DataSprings Dynamic Forms, DNN 5.1 Professional, Openforce 09, Snapsis PageBlaster

Richard Wootton — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:56:00 GMT

This is a discussion between Lee Sykes and Richard Wootton recorded on the 18th of June 2009.

This podcast covers the following subjects:

DataSprings Release v3 of Dynamic Forms
DotNetNuke 5.1 Professional Edition
OpenForce Dates
Google Wave
Amazon Bookstore on DNN Creative
DotNetNuke Backups are great!
Snapsis PageBlaster Community Edition Testing
YSlow Firebug plugin for Firefox
Combining CSS and Javascript files together
How to reduce the CSS files sizes in DotNetNuke
Undercover Lee
Good support from Snapsis
DNN Creative Testimonial

DataSprings Dynamic Forms 3.4 for DNN 4.x 5.x

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:04:00 GMT

The new 'Dynamics Forms' module from Data Springs, makes it easier than ever to segment your data collection efforts. It's loaded with dynamic options such as easy-to use question set-ups, a variety of instant re-direct options based on their input, and the ability to quickly view the data for analysis.

Whether you use the information for marketing, sales, communications, scheduling, information requests, surveys, or to simply better understand their needs, the possibilities for creating powerfully effective forms are now easy and endless.

Issue 45 - Markit Modules Slideshow and PageEar, DNN Stuff's Module Rotator, Monitter4DNN and Open Web Studio Tutorials

Richard Wootton — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:06:00 GMT

June 2009

Welcome to issue 45 of DNN Creative Magazine

This issue begins with a tutorial for Markit Modules Slideshow module. The Slideshow module is useful for displaying your featured articles and products as an image, text content or you can even display an existing module within a slideshow. This module displays content in a similar manner to the msn.com home page.

Following this we also cover Markit Modules free PageEar module. The PageEar module allows you to place Page Peel advertisements on your DotNetNuke websites.

Next, we demonstrate how to use DNN Stuff’s Module Rotator. This module allows you to rotate the content of multiple modules in the space of a single module. You can configure the module rotator to rotate modules each time the page loads, or you can also configure a timer to rotate through the modules in milliseconds.

Following this we explore the free Monitter for DNN module by Joe Brinkman. This is a simple module which allows you to easily display a real-time feed of twitter search results on your website.

This issue also releases the much anticipated third part of our series on How to Build a Public Knowledge Base Module using R2i’s Open Web Studio by Paul Deschenes. In this instalment we explore how to build the user search page for searching knowledge base articles. We demonstrate how to implement record paging, column sorting, how to create a categories module, how to create a print function for the articles, as well as how to add an articles rating feature.

Finally, we have a podcast covering the latest DotNetNuke News as well as more tips and tricks.

This issue comes complete with 14 Video Tutorials and 1 Podcast!

Tutorials:

Premium Modules:	Markit Slideshow Module (5 videos - 38mins)
	DNN Stuff Module Rotator (1 video - 9mins)
Free Modules:	Markit PageEar Module (2 videos - 20mins)
	Monitter4DNN Twitter Module (1 video - 7mins)
Module Development Series:	The User Search Interface in Open Web Studio - Part 3 of 6 - How to Build a Public Knowledge Base with OWS (5 videos - 51mins)
Podcasts:	DotNetNuke News, BrettleWeb Error Tip, Backing up Tips, Cloud Computing, DNN 4.9.4 and 5.1Beta (27mins)

View issue 45 to download all of the videos in one zip file

Markit Slideshow Module for DotNetNuke - 5 Videos

Richard Wootton — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:05:00 GMT

This tutorial demonstrates how to use the Markit Slideshow module. The Slideshow module is useful for displaying your featured articles and products as an image, text content or you can even display an existing module within a slideshow.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - Introduction, Installation, Adding Slides
Video 2 - How to Create a Slide and View a Slideshow
Video 3 - How to Create a Text / HTML slide and Existing Module Slide
Video 4 - Slideshow Templates and Configuration Options
Video 5 - Slideshow Configuration Options

DNN Stuff Module Rotator for DotNetNuke - 1 Video

Richard Wootton — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:04:00 GMT

This tutorial demonstrates how to use DNN Stuff’s Module Rotator. This module allows you to rotate the content of multiple modules in the space of a single module.

The video contains:

Introduction
Demonstration of the module in action
How to download and install the module
How to add Text / HTML modules to the page
How to add the module rotator to a page
Rotator, Manage Modules
How to add modules from the page into the module rotator
How to re-order the rotation display of the module
Auto Hide Titles
Demonstration of each module rotating on page load / refresh
Timer Settings
How to automatically rotate the modules display in seconds

Markit PageEar Module for DotNetNuke - 2 Videos

Richard Wootton — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:03:00 GMT

This tutorial demonstrates how to use the Markit PageEar module. The PageEar module allows you to place Page Peel advertisements on your DotNetNuke websites.

In this tutorial we walk you through installation and how to fully configure this module.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - Introduction, Installation, Configuration
Video 2 - Configuration, Displaying the Module

Monitter4DNN Twitter Module for DotNetNuke - 1 Video

Richard Wootton — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:02:00 GMT

This tutorial demonstrates how to use the Monitter for DNN module by Joe Brinkman. The module is available as a free download from CodePlex.

This is a simple module which allows you to easily display a real-time feed of twitter search results on your website.

The video contains:

Introduction
How to download the module
How to install the module
How to add the module to the page
How to configure the Monitter settings
Search Terms
Tweet Count
Display Search Box
Clear on Search

The User Search Interface in Open Web Studio, Part 3 - 5 Videos

Richard Wootton — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:01:00 GMT

This tutorial demonstrates how to build the user search page for searching knowledge base articles.

We demonstrate how to implement record paging and column sorting, how to create a categories module and how to edit the knowledge base manager page so that we can record categories for each of our articles.

We show you how to enable and configure Full Text Search on the server, tricks on how to output the articles that people are viewing so they are printable and how to add an articles rating feature and the principles for a query based look up drop down field so that you can query tables from the database to make record selections.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - Introduction, Categories Module
Video 2 - Categories Module and Passing IDs to the Search Module
Video 3 - Search Knowledge Base Module, Full-Text SQL Search
Video 4 - Search Results Formatting, Article Ratings
Video 5 - Print Functions

DotNetNuke News, BrettleWeb Error Tip, Backing up Tips, Cloud Computing, DNN 4.9.4 and 5.1Beta

Richard Wootton — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:00:00 GMT

This is a discussion between Lee Sykes and Richard Wootton recorded on the 28th of May 2009.

This podcast covers the following subjects:

It’s been a while - What have we been doing?
DotNetNuke 5.1 and 4.9.4
DotNetNuke Corporation sells 50 subscriptions
OpenForce 09 Vegas, the speakers and topics
OnyakTech DotNetNuke web stats Vista gadget free module
Video downloads improved for DNN Creative
Amazon S3 hosting
Firefox S3Fox plugin
Experimenting with Hosted Desktop
Backup, Backup, Backup!
How to automate website backups via FTP to a server

Issue 44 - iFinity URL Master, OnyakTech Host Commander and Open Web Studio Tutorials

Richard Wootton — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:05:00 GMT

May 2009

Welcome to issue 44 of DNN Creative Magazine

This issue begins with a tutorial on the iFinity URL Master module. The URL Master module is one of the essential modules for your DotNetNuke websites as it creates Search Engine Optimised URLs and eliminates duplicate content from the Search Engines.

The URL Master module allows you to create Human and Search Engine friendly URLs. It lets you replace spaces in URLs with characters you specify, such as hyphens. It allows you to use your own keywords and phrases within the URLs for your DotNetNuke pages, as well as incorporating various options for custom redirects. This module is very useful for eliminating duplicate content and replacing old websites with new DotNetNuke sites.

Next we demonstrate OnyakTech’s Host Commander module. This module provides many useful functions for the Host Super User. With the Host Commander module you can set up scheduled jobs such as SQL queries, view portal statistics for all portals from one area, view the data from the tables in your database, and execute stored procedures.

Following this we have the second part of our new series on 'How to Build a Public Knowledge Base Module' using R2i’s Open Web Studio by Paul Deschenes. In this instalment we explore the actual coding process. We show you how to manually build a module so you can get a full understanding of building a query, using AJAX calls and OWS actions so that you can go on to build your own OWS modules of any type and requirement.

Included with the OWS tutorial this month is a ‘mini’ tutorial on how to import the configuration source code (which we provide with each tutorial) into Open Web Studio.

Finally, we have a podcast covering the latest DotNetNuke News as well as more tips and tricks.

This issue comes complete with 16 Video Tutorials and 1 Podcast!

Tutorials:

Premium Modules:	iFinity URL Master Module (6 videos - 49mins)
	OnyakTech Host Commander Module (4 videos - 35mins)
Module Development Series:	How to Import the Configuration Source Code into Open Web Studio (1 video - 2 mins)
	How to Build Module Interfaces in Open Web Studio – Part 2 of 6 – How to Build a Public Knowledge Base with OWS (5 videos - 41mins)
Podcasts:	DotNetNuke News, SQL Tips for Cleaning DNN Database, DNN 4.9.3, Derek Trauger, Nevoweb (30mins)

View issue 44 to download all of the videos in one zip file

iFinity URL Master Module for DotNetNuke - 6 Videos

Richard Wootton — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:04:00 GMT

This tutorial demonstrates how to use iFinity’s URL Master module. The URL Master module is one of the essential modules for your DotNetNuke websites as it creates Search Engine Optimised URLs and eliminates duplicate content from the Search Engines.This module gives you complete control over the URLs in your DotNetNuke website, this helps to improve your search engine rankings and therefore drives more traffic to your website.

The URL Master is also very useful if you are replacing an old website with a new DotNetNuke website or if you are reorganizing the pages of an existing site by using the 301 redirect functions of the module.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - Introduction and Installation
Video 2 - Friendly URL Settings
Video 3 - Friendly URL Settings and Testing
Video 4 - URL Rewriting and Redirection Settings
Video 5 - Advanced Rewriting and Redirection Settings
Video 6 - Page URLS Redirection Settings

OnyakTech Host Commander Module for DotNetNuke - 4 Videos

Richard Wootton — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:03:00 GMT

This tutorial demonstrates how to use OnyakTech’s Host Commander module. The Host Commander module is a host specific module which provides various useful functions for the Host Super User.

The functions available in this module include:

Setting up scheduled jobs
Provide portal statistics
A Database Manager
Execute stored procedures
Global Time
View the server, site and portal event logs in easy to read charts
Monitor Users Live and which pages they have already visited
Web Site Snapshot Generation for user profiles

The videos contain:

Video 1 - Introduction and Installation
Video 2 - Scheduled SQL Jobs
Video 3 - Portals Dashboard, Database Manager, Global Time
Video 4 - Server and Portal Event Logs, Monitor Users, Web Snapshots

How to Import the Configuration Source Code into Open Web Studio for DotNetNuke - 1 Video

Richard Wootton — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:02:00 GMT

This tutorial demonstrates how to download and import source code into R2i's Open Web Studio module.

To accompany our series on Open Web Studio we are providing you with the source code for the knowledgebase application. This tutorial shows you how to take the code we provide and import it into the OWS module on your own DotNetNuke site.

The video contains:

How to download and open the module source code
How to import the configuration source code into OWS
Preserve configuration ID option
How to publish the configuration code

How to Build Module Interfaces in Open Web Studio, Part 2 - 5 Videos

Richard Wootton — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:01:00 GMT

This tutorial demonstrates the actual coding process when building modules with Open Web Studio.

While Quickbuilder is a great "getting started" tool, it does not provide the understanding necessary to build and customize modules to specific requirements. In this tutorial we dissect and manually build the module to get a full understanding of building a query, using AJAX calls and other OWS actions, and formatting the results so that you can build your own modules.

This is Part 2 of the series and covers:

Video 1 - Introduction, How to Create a Region, Template and Query
Video 2 - How to Display the Query Results in a Table
Video 3 - Debugging, Adding an Edit Link
Video 4 - Secure SQL and the Detail Edit Template
Video 5 - Update, Add and Delete Records

DotNetNuke News, SQL Tips for Cleaning DNN Database, DNN 4.9.3, Derek Trauger, Nevoweb

Richard Wootton — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:00:00 GMT

This is a discussion between Lee Sykes and Richard Wootton recorded on the 8th of April 2009.

This podcast covers the following subjects:

DotNetNuke 4.9.3 released
400 video Tutorials from DNN Creative
Free Site Map Module by Derek Trauger
Free Ecommerce Module from Nevoweb
Microsoft Web Installer
The World Wide Web's 20th Birthday
Issue 43
Lee Fixes the Banner Module with SQL Queries
How to Spot Problems with Modules Before They Happen
OyakTech's Host Commander Module
DotNetNuke Site Logs, Event Logs and Scheduler

Issue 43 - OnyakTech Sigma Live, DNNStuff Aggregator and Open Web Studio Tutorials

Richard Wootton — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 09:35:00 GMT

April 2009

Welcome to issue 43 of DNN Creative Magazine

This is a very special issue for us as this month we have reached 400 video tutorials! Also, in this issue we are introducing a new video tutor, Paul Deschenes who will be providing a six part series on how to build a Knowledge Base Module using Open Web Studio.

To open the issue we begin with a tutorial on the OnyakTech SigmaLive Module. The SigmaLive module provides Live Chat functionality for your DotNetNuke website. It allows you to engage in a 1-to-1 chat with your website visitors in real-time. It allows you to instantly provide live help, live support, visitor tracking, and proactive sales for your products and services. It is also possible to configure this module as a chat room.

Next we demonstrate how to use DNN Stuff’s Aggregator Module. This module is a really flexible module as it acts as a tabbed container or can also be used as a localization container for one or more modules. The module allows you to combine several modules together from a page into a tabbed interface and can also display RSS feeds.

Following this we have part one of six for the new series of tutorials on How to Build a Public Knowledge Base Module with R2i’s Open Web Studio by Paul Deschenes. The aim of the series is to introduce the beginner to Open Web Studio and demonstrate how to create a fully functional web application with little or no coding experience required. This tutorial provides an introduction to Open Web Studio where we walk you through installation, the key components, and building your first components with Quick Builder.

Finally, we have two podcasts covering the latest DotNetNuke News as well as more tips and tricks.

This issue comes complete with 14 Video Tutorials and 2 Podcasts!

Tutorials:

Premium Modules:	OnyakTech SigmaLive Module (5 videos - 42mins)
	DNN Stuff Aggregator Module (6 videos - 57mins)
Module Development Series:	An Introduction to R2i Open Web Studio – Part 1 of 6 – How to Build a Public Knowledge Base with OWS (3 videos - 27mins)
Podcasts:	DotNetNuke News, Free Modules, Working With Emails, Quick Tips (26mins) DotNetNuke News, DNN Creative 400 Videos, Paul Deschenes, R2i OWS, Google Maps, Quantcast (34mins)

View issue 43 to download all of the videos in one zip file

OnyakTech SigmaLive Module for DotNetNuke - 5 Videos

Richard Wootton — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 09:34:00 GMT

This tutorial demonstrates how to use OnyakTech’s SigmaLive (Live Chat) module.

The SigmaLive module provides Live Chat functionality for your DotNetNuke website, allowing you to engage in a 1-to-1 chat with your website visitors in real-time. It allows you to instantly provide live help, live support, visitor tracking, and proactive sales for your products and services.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - Introduction and Installation
Video 2 - Configuring Sigma Live PopUp as a Chat Room and Images to Display
Video 3 - Further Configuration Options in SigmaLive
Video 4 - Installing and Configuring the SigmaLive Windows Client
Video 5 - How to Use the SigmaLive Windows Client

Total Time Length: 42min 12secs

DNN Stuff Aggregator Module for DotNetNuke - 6 Videos

Richard Wootton — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 09:33:00 GMT

This tutorial demonstrates how to use DNN Stuff’s Aggregator Module.

This module acts as a tabbed container or can also be used as a localization container for one or more modules, allowing you to combine several modules together from a page into a tabbed interface.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - Introduction, Installation, Configuration
Video 2 - How to Add Modules Into The Aggregator
Video 3 - Further Configuration Options with Tabs and Modules
Video 4 - Style Settings, Linking Several Aggregator Modules
Video 5 - Displaying RSS Feeds in the Aggregator
Video 6 - Styling and Working with Templates in Aggregator

Total Time Length: 57min 17secs

An Introduction to R2i Open Web Studio for DotNetNuke, Part 1 - 3 Videos

Richard Wootton — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 09:32:00 GMT

This tutorial demonstrates downloading and installing OWS, adding and configuring the module on a page, opening and reviewing the key components of the OWS Administration development environment and building your first Master-Detail-Edit form using the OWS Quickbuilder utility.

The series will take the viewer through six episodes, where at the end the viewer will have a fully functional Technical Knowledge Base application.

This is Part 1 of the series and covers:

Video 1 - Introduction and Initial Configuration
Video 2 - Actions and Tools
Video 3 - How to Create Actions with Master / Detail / Edit Configuration

Total Time Length: 27min 25secs

DotNetNuke News, Free Modules, Working With Emails, Quick Tips

Richard Wootton — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 09:31:00 GMT

This is a discussion between Lee Sykes and Richard Wootton recorded on the 10th of March 2009.

This podcast covers the following subjects:

DotNetNuke Announce Tom Kress - Vice President of Sales
Sobot.biz - Free Modules
PowerDNN - Security Notification Service
How to check which version of DNN you have and any updates available
Social networking overtaking Email
Twitter becoming more popular
Microsoft IE8, Windows 7
Lee's Power Tip - Google AdWords
How to pronounce 'Niche'
Dafont.com - Free fonts
Issue 42
Issue 43
Richard sets another Video target

DotNetNuke News, DNN Creative 400 Videos, Paul Deschenes, R2i OWS, Google Maps, Quantcast

Richard Wootton — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 09:30:00 GMT

This is a discussion between Lee Sykes and Richard Wootton recorded on the 27th of March 2009.

This podcast covers the following subjects:

400 video target, did we do it? Yes we did!
Special Guest: Paul Deschenes
Outline of the 6 part OWS Tutorial Series
Google Maps
DNNHelp for sale on Ebay
New release of OWS 2.1.7
DNN Creative Forum
Lee's Power Tip - Quantcast.com
'Intresting for Testing'
Lee Builds a Website in Record Time
Richard Doesn't Set a Goal for 500 Videos
Lee is Going to China!

Issue 42 - DataSprings Opt In Email and Email Deliverability

Richard Wootton — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 08:15:00 GMT

March 2009

Welcome to issue 42 of DNN Creative Magazine

In this issue we demonstrate how to use DataSprings Opt In Email module and how email can be a powerful tool for obtaining and maintaining new clients and customers.

Firstly we demonstrate how you can use DataSprings Opt In Email module effectively. This module provides the same and even more functionality than you would expect from a third party ESP (Email Service Provider). ESP’s are third party companies that handle the sending of bulk emails on behalf of others, with DataSprings Opt In Email Module we put the control back in your hands.

This is the final part of our look into DataSprings Modules and we tie all the related tutorials from the previous issue together with an article on how to improve email deliverability and get the most out of your subscriber mailing list.

The article takes you through the steps needed to create a high quality mailing list so you know you are getting your message out to the right people and you are maximising the exposure of your website.

Using the knowledge gained from this and previous issues you now have all the tools you need to create high quality email campaigns for marketing your websites.

For the final item in this issue we have our latest podcast from our DotNetNuke News series.

This issue comes complete with 10 Video Tutorials and 1 Podcast!

Tutorials:

Premium Modules:	DataSprings Opt In Email Module (10 videos - 83mins)
Administrators:
	How to Improve Email Newsletter Deliverability
Podcasts:	DotNetNuke News, DNN Professional, Active Social, Social Networking, Book Releases (35mins)

View issue 42 to download all of the videos in one zip file

DataSprings Opt In Email Module for DotNetNuke - 10 Videos

Richard Wootton — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 08:10:00 GMT

This tutorial demonstrates how to use DataSprings Opt In Email Newsletter Module.

DataSprings Opt In Email Module has a lot of the features you would expect from signing up to a third party Email Service Provider (ESP). In some cases this module offers more functions than you would normally receive from a thrid party ESP.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - Introduction, Installation, How to Create an Opt In Email List
Video 2 - Module Configuration
Video 3 - Testing, Control Panel - Dashboard, Manage Subscribers, Opt In Lists, Extended Fields, List Import
Video 4 - Simple Opt In Module, Previous Newsletters Module, Advanced Email Module
Video 5 - Advanced Email Module Settings, Newsletter Configuration, Distribution, Email Images
Video 6 - Advanced Email Module Newsletter Configuration, Bounceback Settings
Video 7 - Advanced Email Module Tracking
Video 8 - Link Tracking and Reports
Video 9 - Advanced Email Module - Email Campaigns
Video 10 - Email Campaign Reports, List Cleanup

Total Time Length: 83min 16secs

How to Improve Email Newsletter Deliverability

Richard Wootton — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 08:05:00 GMT

This Article shows that Email is a powerful tool that can gain you new prospective clients and customers. However, email is also the most abused promotion facility online.

At some point we have all probably received one of the 3 Ps (Pills, Porn and Poker) in our inbox, and it’s because of this ongoing conflict between ‘Spamvertisers’ and (ISPs) Internet Service Providers and in some cases Law Enforcement that it is becoming increasingly harder to ensure your emails are reaching your recipients.

DotNetNuke News, DNN Professional, Active Social, Social Networking, Book Releases

Richard Wootton — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 08:00:00 GMT

This is a discussion between Lee Sykes and Richard Wootton recorded on the 19th of February 2009.

This podcast covers the following subjects:

DotNetNuke Professional Edition
Active Social
Social Networking
R2i 1st Mariner Bank Application
iPhone Applications
DotNetNuke 4.9.2 Release
DotNetNuke 5.0.1 Release
Windows Web Platform Installer (Web PI)
Umbraco CMS
DotNetNuke Book Releases
Lee Builds Media PC for File Sharing
Google AdWords Powertip
DNN Creative DNN v5 Tutorials

Issue 41 - How to Upgrade DotNetNuke v5+, DataSprings Dynamic Forms Completion Events

Richard Wootton — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:55:00 GMT

February 2009

Welcome to issue 41 of DNN Creative Magazine

In this issue we demonstrate how to upgrade DotNetNuke. We demonstrate how to use the Auto Merge Method for upgrading versions 4.6.2+ and the Manual Method for all versions of DotNetNuke. We also continue with the DataSprings Dynamic Forms module tutorials, this time we cover Completion Events and using Third Party Email Services.

First of all we cover DataSprings Dynamic Forms Completion Events. We take you through how to create a Dynamic Form Completion Event and show you how Completion Events can be used to redirect a user to a URL or page, send an email, add a user to a DNN security role and execute SQL and HTTP Post; which enables you to post data from your form to another URL.

Following this we demonstrate how Completion Events can be used to send user details to a third party email newsletter service such as AWeber.

Next we show you how to upgrade DotNetNuke using the Auto Merge Method which is available from version 4.6.2 onwards. This method of upgrading is much easier and quicker than it was in previous versions of DotNetNuke. This tutorial demonstrates the steps required to upgrade live DotNetNuke websites from v4.6.2 to v4.9.1 and then onto v5+.

We also demonstrate how to upgrade DotNetNuke using the Manual Method. This method of upgrading will work for any version of DotNetNuke and this is the method you have to use for upgrading any version below 4.6.2.

To complete this issue we have our latest podcast from our DotNetNuke News series.

This issue comes complete with 10 Video Tutorials and 1 Podcast!

Tutorials:

Premium Modules:	DataSprings Dynamic Forms Completion Events (2 videos - 17mins)
	How to Create an Email Opt-In Form with a Third Party Email Service (AWeber) using DataSprings Dynamic Forms (2 videos - 18mins)
Administrators:	How to Upgrade DotNetNuke (Auto Merge Method) (3 videos - 30mins)
	How to Upgrade DotNetNuke (Manual Method) (3 videos - 33mins)
Podcasts:	DotNetNuke News, Codeplex, Bingway Free Trial, Page Rank, DNN Creative Subscriptions (27mins)

View issue 41 to download all of the videos in one zip file

DataSprings Dynamic Forms Completion Events for DotNetNuke - 2 Videos

Richard Wootton — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:42:00 GMT

This tutorial demonstrates working with Completion Events in DataSprings Dynamic Forms.

We demonstrate how to setup Completion Events, we show you how to send an email to the users if they tick a box in the form, how to send an email out to the administrator of the website which reports customer responses when a form has been completed and how to redirect a user to a new page on completion of a form.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - Introduction, How to create a Dynamic Email Completion Event
Video 2 - Emailing the Form Data to Admin, Redirecting to a Page on Submit

Total Time Length: 17min 19secs

How to Create an Email Opt-In Form with a Third Party Email Service (AWeber) using DataSprings Dynamic Forms for DotNetNuke - 2 Videos

Richard Wootton — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:30:00 GMT

This tutorial demonstrates how to add an opt-in email form to a DotNetNuke page and send those details to a third party email newsletter service such as AWeber.

If you have used a service such as AWeber before, you will be aware that when you create a newsletter group they will provide you with some HTML form code to add into your HTML pages. DotNetNuke doesn't allow you to paste HTML code for a form directly into a DotNetNuke page, so you need to use a module such as DataSprings Dynamic Forms to create the form, capture the form data, and then send it to aweber.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - Introduction, How to build an Email Opt In Form using DataSprings Dynamic Forms
Video 2 - Configuring Aweber, Capturing the Code, Configuring Dynamic Forms

Total Time Length: 17min 31secs

How to Upgrade DotNetNuke (Auto Merge Method) - 3 Videos

Richard Wootton — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:20:00 GMT

This tutorial demonstrates how to upgrade DotNetNuke using the auto merge method. This method is available when upgrading DotNetNuke versions 4.6.2 and above.

We demonstrate the steps that are recommended for upgrading live DotNetNuke websites and in this example we upgrade DotNetNuke v4.6.2 to v4.9.1 and then v4.9.1 to v5.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - Introduction, Checks, Backup, Auto Upgrade
Video 2 - How to Take The Live Site Offline, Upgrading, Checks
Video 3 - How to Upgrade the Core Modules, How to Upgrade to V5+

Total Time Length: 29min 53secs

How to Upgrade DotNetNuke (Manual Method) - 3 Videos

Richard Wootton — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:15:00 GMT

This tutorial demonstrates how to upgrade DotNetNuke using the manual method. The Manual method has to be used when upgrading any DotNetNuke versions below 4.6.2.

In this tutorial we upgrade a live website from DotNetNuke v4.4.1 to v4.6.2.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - Introduction, Download, Backup
Video 2 - How to Merge the Data
Video 3 - How to Initiate the DotNetNuke Upgrade and Upgrade the Core Modules

Total Time Length: 30min 18secs

DotNetNuke News, Codeplex, Bingway Free Trial, Page Rank, DNN Creative Subscriptions

Richard Wootton — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:10:00 GMT

This is a discussion between Lee Sykes and Richard Wootton recorded on the 15th of January 2009.

This podcast covers the following subjects:

DotNetNuke moves from Sourceforge to Codeplex
Microsoft Oxite
DotNetNuke 4.9.1
DotNetNuke 5
BingWay 1 Month Free Trial Offer
Upgrading DotNetNuke v4.6.2 to v5
Page Rank and DotNetNuke
Issue 40
Rich is leaving! (the UK, not DNN Creative)
Exchange Rate: The pound is low
Subscriptions equal to 30% off for US Customers
Onayktech Soma Elite Module

Issue 40 - DataSprings Dynamic Forms and Favicons in DotNetNuke

Richard Wootton — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:35:00 GMT

January 2009

Welcome to issue 40 of DNN Creative Magazine

In this issue we explore DataSprings Dynamic Forms module, this is a very powerful module for quickly and easily building complex forms in DotNetNuke.

We begin with a Quick Start Guide, where we show you the basic principles of the Dynamic Forms module and how, in a matter of minutes, you can create simple forms for collecting data from your website visitors.

We then demonstrate how you can show and hide form fields dependant on responses from other fields with Question Events. Question Events make your forms very flexible and user friendly as they only display form fields that are relevant to the user filling out their details.

Next we show you how you can view the data that the Dynamic Forms module captures, how to setup a message to display when a user clicks on the submit button and how to import and export forms that you have created into other Dynamic Forms Modules.

Still on the subject of forms, we also have an article covering the 20 Best Practice Tips for creating forms.

Following this we have an article on how to use Favicons within DotNetNuke. Favicons are a great way to make your site stand out from a long list of bookmarked pages and give your site a more personal touch. We show you 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.

To finish the issue off we have a podcast from our regular DotNetNuke News series.

This issue comes complete with 10 Video Tutorials, 2 Articles and 1 Podcast!

Tutorials:

Administrators:	DataSprings Dynamic Forms Quick Start Guide (6 videos - 49mins)
	DataSprings Dynamic Forms Question Events (2 videos - 20mins)
	DataSprings Dynamic Forms Data Management (2 videos - 13mins)
Administrators:	20 Best Practice Tips for Creating Forms
	Using Favicons within DotNetNuke
Podcasts:	DotNetNuke News, DNN Funding, R2i OWS, OnyakTech Soma Elite (21mins)

View issue 40 to download all of the videos in one zip file

DataSprings Dynamic Forms for DotNetNuke Quick Start Guide - 6 Videos

Richard Wootton — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:21:00 GMT

This tutorial provides a quick start guide for DataSprings Dynamic Forms module.

The DataSprings Dynamic Forms module is a very powerful module for quickly building forms and collecting data from the visitors on your website and it also allows you to quickly view and export the data into Excel files.

With so many functions available in this module, it would be impossible to cover them all in a single tutorial so this quick start guide shows the basic principles of the module and from there you can follow the additional Dynamic Forms tutorials on DNN Creative.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - Introduction, Question Wizard for Quick Setup
Video 2 - Drag and Drop Functions For Quickly Building Forms
Video 3 - Editing Form Fields, Creating a Combo Box
Video 4 - Editing Field Properties, Using the Advanced Wizard
Video 5 - Module Configuration, Validation, Sort Order and Styling Text Field
Video 6 - Styling Text Field, Copying Fields, Additional Information

Total Time Length: 49min 17secs

DataSprings Dynamic Forms Question Events for DotNetNuke- 2 Videos

Richard Wootton — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:16:00 GMT

This tutorial demonstrates working with Question Events in DataSprings Dynamic Forms module.

Question Events allow users to be prompted with new questions they were not previously privileged to, hide questions they were previously privileged to, or set the default value of a field. Question Events make your forms much more powerful, flexible and user friendly as they only display form fields that are related to the users’ details.

Before viewing this tutorial, make sure that you watch the Dynamic Forms Quick Start Guide.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - Introduction, Creating Additional Fields for the Question Events
Video 2 - Advanced Wizard and Question Events to Display Hidden Form Fields

Total Time Length: 19min 50secs

DataSprings Dynamic Forms Data Management for DotNetNuke - 2 Videos

Richard Wootton — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:12:00 GMT

This tutorial shows how to work with data in the DataSprings Dynamic Forms module.

We show you:

How to view the data that the Dynamic Forms module captures
How to setup a message to display when a user clicks on the submit button
How to import and export forms that you have created into other Dynamic Forms Modules

The Import / Export feature is very useful as it allows you to reuse forms you have previously created for other projects.

Before viewing this tutorial, make sure that you watch the Dynamic Forms Quick Start Guide.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - Introduction, Submit Button, Submit Message
Video 2 - Managing Captured Data, Importing and Exporting Forms

Total Time Length: 13min 21secs

20 Best Practice Tips for Creating Forms

Richard Wootton — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:57:00 GMT

This article sets out some key guidelines for creating forms.

By taking into consideration the tips outlined in this article you can plan and create a form just how you originally conceived it.

If forms are not planned out properly from the conceptual stage they can easily evolve and become complicated. Over complicated forms can reduce the users interest drastically, thus damaging your chances of obtaining the information you require.

Using Favicons within DotNetNuke

Richard Wootton — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:50:00 GMT

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.

DotNetNuke News, DNN Funding, R2i OWS, OnyakTech Soma Elite

Richard Wootton — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:43:00 GMT

This is a discussion between Lee Sykes and Richard Wootton recorded on the 8th of December 2008.

This podcast covers the following subjects:

DotNetNuke Corporation
Venture Capital Funding
Chris Hammond Blog on DNN Funding
DotNetNuke is still free
DotNetNuke professional edition
Core Documents Module Update - Bulk Upload
R2i - OWS released for free
OnyakTech - Soma Elite Module available for free to DNN Creative Subscribers
Issue 39
356 Videos on DNN Creative

Issue 39 - DotNetNuke Authentication, Importing Large Data, Color Guide, SaaS and DNN News Podcasts

Richard Wootton — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 07:17:00 GMT

December 2008

Welcome to issue 39 of DNN Creative Magazine

In this issue we take a look at the DotNetNuke Authentication settings, which covers the various configuration options for the DotNetNuke login page.

We show you how to enable CAPTCHA on the standard DotNetNuke login page and how to setup Windows LiveID and OpenID. We demonstrate how to make these new login features user friendly and how to help the user sign up to Windows LiveID and Open ID easily.

Next we show you how to quickly add large quantities of data to a module. Adding vast amounts of data to a module manually using DotNetNuke can be time consuming. In this tutorial we demonstrate how to add large quantities of data to the core Documents module quickly. We walk you through how to use Microsoft Excel and SQL Server Express to quickly populate tables within DotNetNuke.

Following this, we have produced the DNN Creative Color Reference Guide PDF to help you choose a palette for your web pages.

To finish the issue off we have three Podcasts, the first is a video interview with Paul Deschenes of Advologix about SaaS (Software as a Service) applications within DotNetNuke. Paul talks us through how he developed the AdvologixPM application and tells us of the benefits of SaaS over conventional store purchased applications, and the final two podcasts cover our regular DotNetNuke News series.

This issue comes complete with 9 Video Tutorials, 1 Video Interview and 2 Podcasts!

Tutorials:

Administrators:	DotNetNuke Authentication Settings (Configuring the Login Page) (5 videos - 40mins)
	How to Quickly Add Large Quantities of Data into DotNetNuke Modules (4 videos - 40mins)
PDF Book:	Color Reference Guide (34 pages PDF)
Video Interview:	Interview with Paul Deschenes, SAAS applications using DotNetNuke (32mins)
Podcasts:	DotNetNuke News, Active Forums, DataSprings, R2i, OpenForce, DNN Book (30mins) DotNetNuke News, Professional, OpenForce Vegas, Quick Tips (24mins)

View issue 39 to download all of the videos in one zip file

Interview with Paul Deschenes, SaaS applications using DotNetNuke

Richard Wootton — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 07:15:00 GMT

In this 32min video interview with Paul Deschenes from Advologix.com we discuss Software as a Service (SaaS) and an application he has developed using ListX.

We discuss the process of developing a SaaS application and the benefits of Software as a Service over store purchased products. Paul then shows us an example of how he set up the ListX module and finally how to manage a SaaS architecture within DotNetNuke.

DotNetNuke News, DNN Professional, OpenForce Vegas, Quick Tips

Richard Wootton — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 07:10:00 GMT

This is a discussion between Lee Sykes and Richard Wootton recorded on the 25th of November 2008.

This podcast covers the following subjects:

DNN Professional Edition
PowerDNN Double Capacity
SeekDotNet Fully supports DNN 4.9
Openforce 08 Update
Richard finds a DotNetNuke floating control panel!
Google Chrome final update
How to get the DNN Blue skin
Onyaktech sale!
SQL Server 2008 Express
SEO on DNN Creative Forum
How do you pronounce 'Beta'? (yes seriously)

Color Reference Guide

Richard Wootton — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 07:01:00 GMT

This is a special 34 page resource to help you learn how to use colors within CSS when designing your DotNetNuke skins.

The Color Reference Guide has been designed to give you a better idea of how the different color systems work, how to use the Hex Triplet system and the 3 character Hex CSS Shorthand.

This book comes in pdf format so you can easily refer back to it at your leisure.

DotNetNuke News, Active Forums, DataSprings, R2i, OpenForce, DNN Book

Richard Wootton — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 07:00:00 GMT

This is a discussion between Lee Sykes and Richard Wootton recorded on the 7th of November 2008.

This podcast covers the following subjects:

Active Forums Lite and Active Forums Express
Packts Award Results
Microsoft Web Application installer - Beta
Mitchell Sellers - DotNetNuke 5 Module Programming book
Openforce 08 - recap of events
Openforce Social Evening - DNN Creative donated prize
OWS - Open Web Studio, R2i
Saas
Datasprings - optin email version 4
European Group of DNN Professionals
Enom Phishing Scam
Issue 38 contents
DNN Creative Search Improved

How to Quickly Add Large Quantities of Data into DotNetNuke Modules - 4 Videos

Richard Wootton — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 06:53:00 GMT

This tutorial demonstrates a method for quickly adding large amounts of data into a DotNetNuke module. The module in this example is the core Documents module.

Throughout the tutorial we walk you through the methods used for investigating how to add large amounts of data into the Documents module so that you can adapt these methods to add content to other modules.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - Introduction, Initial Demonstration with Documents Module
Video 2 - Testing, Errors and Link Tracking Tables
Video 3 - Creating an Excel file of Data for the Documents Module
Video 4 - Copying the Data from Excel to SQL Server, Testing, Adding Files

Total Time Length: 40mins

How to Setup the Authentication Settings in DotNetNuke (Configuring the Login Page) - 5 Videos

Richard Wootton — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 06:43:00 GMT

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

Issue 38 - Search Modules, How to create Podcasts, plus SEO, Design and OpenForce Interviews

Richard Wootton — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:10:00 GMT

November 2008

Welcome to issue 38 of DNN Creative Magazine

This issue focuses on Search. We look at the Core Search in DotNetNuke as well as review two Search Engine modules available for DotNetNuke.

We begin by demonstrating how to setup and configure the DotNetNuke Core Search. The tutorial demonstrates how to ensure your content is indexed, how to increase the search effectiveness of your site, and how to configure the Search Results. We show you how to set up a Google AdSense Affiliate ID and insert it into Google search results and finally demonstrate how to configure the Search Skin Object to suit the needs of your site.

Next we concentrate on Podcasting within DotNetNuke. As an example we demonstrate how we setup the podcasts on dotnetnukepodcast.com. We recently made some improvements to the website by using Ventrian News Articles module. We demonstrate how we convert this module into a Podcast module, how to setup an iTunes podcast compatible RSS feed and how to promote it to the iTunes store.

Following on from the tutorials we have two search engine reviews: Xepient Solutions Open-Search Engine v2.0 and Venexus Search Engine and Software Collection. Both of these modules have gone through some thorough testing this month and we share the results with you in the Search Engine Module Reviews section.

This issue also brings the return of our ‘How Did They Build it..?’ series of interviews, this time we speak to Ilian Alexiev from LogicSpectrum.com covering two of his websites and the processes he took in creating them.

To finish the issue off we have three Podcasts. The first is an interview with Tom Kraak from Seablick Consulting where we discuss SEO within DotNetNuke, the second is a review of OpenForce Europe 08 and the third is our regular DotNetNuke News series.

This issue comes complete with 7 Video Tutorials, 2 Module Reviews and 3 Podcasts!

Tutorials:

Administrators:	How to Setup and Configure the DotNetNuke Core Search (4 videos - 32mins)
	How to Setup a Podcast Website using DotNetNuke (3 videos - 22mins)
Search Engine Module Reviews:	Xepient Solutions Open-SearchEngine v2.0 Review for DotNetNuke
	Venexus Search Engine and Software Collection Review for DotNetNuke
Interview:	How Did They Build ...? Looking at website design with Ilian Alexiev
Podcasts:	Tom Kraak SEO Interview (43mins)
	DotNetNuke News, Openforce Europe Review (24mins) DotNetNuke News, DNN 5, FCK Editor, Virtual PC (31mins)

View issue 38 to download all of the videos in one zip file

How to Setup and Configure the DotNetNuke Core Search - 4 Videos

Richard Wootton — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:46:00 GMT

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

How to Setup a Podcast Website using DotNetNuke - 3 Videos

Richard Wootton — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:35:00 GMT

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

LogicSpectrum DotNetNuke Website Design Interview

Richard Wootton — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 08:40:00 GMT

This is part of the How did they build it …? series of interviews.

This is an email interview with LogicSpectrum who have created these two sites:

http://www.germanera.com
http://www.logicspectrum.com

Subjects covered:

Design
Use of Flash
Menu modification
Modules used
Content structure

Tom Kraak DotNetNuke SEO Interview

Richard Wootton — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 08:20:00 GMT

This is a 43min podcast interview with Tom Kraak from Seablick Consulting discussing Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

Following on from last month's interview with Jeff Smith, we have been lucky enough to get hold of Tom Kraak to continue our discussion on Search Engine Optimization within DotNetNuke.

DotNetNuke News, Openforce Europe Review

Richard Wootton — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 08:10:00 GMT

This is a discussion between Lee Sykes and Richard Wootton recorded on the 13th of October 2008.

This podcast covers the following subjects:

DotNetNuke Sessions
Stefan Cullman's Presentation
Chris Hammond's Presentation
Shaun Walker's presentation
Social networking and widgets
Core module suites
Admin UI and skinning engine
Why has it taken so long to release DNN5?
When to upgrade?

DotNetNuke News, DNN 5, FCK Editor, Virtual PC

Richard Wootton — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 08:00:00 GMT

This is a discussion between Lee Sykes and Richard Wootton recorded on the 14th of October 2008.

This podcast covers:

DotNetNuke 5 - Pane Previews
Joe Brinkman’s Blog
FCK Editor Tutorials
Alert Styles
Updated DotNetNuke Podcast.com
Ventrian’s News Articles Module
‘Add This’ Service
Twitter and Facebook
DNN Creative Facebook Page
DotNetNuke Social Search Modules
How to Configure SQL Server correctly
Microsoft Virtual PC
Upgrading DotNetNuke from Version 4.6.2 and above

Issue 37 - Alert Styles, FCK Editor Advanced, SEO Interview

creativehost — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 05:29:00 GMT

October 2008

Welcome to issue 37 of DNN Creative Magazine

This issue marks the start of Volume 4, that’s three full years of bringing you quality DotNetNuke Tutorials, and just to show our thanks we have made this an extra special giant sized issue! We have almost 2 hours of videos, an interview with Jeff Smith of Venexus talking about SEO, and more news from the DNN Creative news podcasts.

The issue begins with four detailed tutorials on the FCK Editor. The focus on these tutorials is the advanced areas of the FCK Editor. These tutorials will help you to ensure your content administrators add content using good practices, it will help to speed up the time taken to add content as well as secure the FCK Editor functions so that certain users have access to certain features in the FCK Editor, ie. for a forum.

The first FCK Editor tutorial covers formatting style definitions, which allow you to create your own custom pre-defined styles to quickly apply classes from your skin. Following this we demonstrate how to create custom FCK Editor HTML templates, these can speed up administration time, as well as help to minimise mistakes by content administrators and ensure content is added using good practices.

FCK Editor custom toolbars and security roles are then explained, which will allow you to customize which toolbar buttons are available for use in the FCK Editor, as well as which security roles have access to the toolbar sets. The final tutorial for the FCK Editor covers further configuration options and demonstrates the key areas for adjusting the advanced settings within the FCK Editor.

Keeping within the theme of ensuring content administrators use good practices when adding content to a DotNetNuke portal, we also introduce the concept of alert styles. Alert styles inform the administrator of any bad practices they have used by highlighting the bad practice text with a red box. This can really help to minimise bad practices and keep control of the content added to your DotNetNuke portals.

To complete the issue we also have 3 podcasts, the first is an interview with Jeff Smith from Venexus where we discuss SEO with DotNetNuke, and the following 2 podcasts are DotNetNuke News and Tips.

This issue comes complete with 14 video tutorials and 3 podcasts!

Tutorials:

Administrators:	FCK Editor Formatting Style Definitions (6 videos - 48mins)
	FCK Editor HTML Templates (2 videos - 16mins)
	FCK Editor Custom Toolbars and Security Roles (3 videos - 25mins)
	FCK Editor Further Configuration Options (2 videos - 13mins)
Skinning:	Administrator Alert Styles (1 Video - 10mins)
Podcasts:	SEO Interview Jeff Smith (22mins)
	DotNetNuke News, Google Chrome, SEO Tips (25mins) DotNetNuke News, DNN Creative Vol 4, Upgrading (19mins)

View issue 37 to download all of the videos in one zip file

FCK Editor Formatting Style Definitions in DotNetNuke - 6 Videos

creativehost — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 05:10:00 GMT

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

FCK Editor HTML Templates in DotNetNuke - 2 Videos

creativehost — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 05:05:00 GMT

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

FCK Editor Custom Toolbars and Security Roles in DotNetNuke - 3 Videos

creativehost — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 05:01:00 GMT

The FCK Editor allows you to customize which toolbar buttons are available for use, this is called a toolbar set. In this tutorial we demonstrate how to create your own custom toolbar sets in the FCK Editor and how you can assign different toolbar sets to various security roles.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - How to Create a Custom Toolbar Set
Video 2 - How to Set Security Role Access for the FCK Editor toolbars
Video 3 - How to Check Toolbar Access for Security Roles

Total Time Length: 24mins

FCK Editor Further Configuration Options in DotNetNuke - 2 Videos

creativehost — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 04:57:00 GMT

This tutorial demonstrates some of the further configuration options available within the FCK editor.

We walk you through some of the additional configuration options that are available to use in your DotNetNuke installations. These additional options will also provide you with the knowledge for researching and configuring any additional FCK editor options.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - FCK Editor, ‘Other Editor Options’, Further Configurations
Video 2 - Advanced Configuration Options using the FCKConfig.js file

Total Time Length: 13mins

DotNetNuke Content Administrator Alert Styles - Video

creativehost — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 04:53:00 GMT

This tutorial demonstrates how to alert content administrators when adding incorrect HTML content to a DotNetNuke portal.

Alert styles is a new concept we have been working on for ensuring that the content administrators of a DotNetNuke portal add content using good practices.

Time Length: 10mins

SEO Interview with Jeff Smith Venexus

creativehost — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 04:46:00 GMT

This is a 22min podcast interview with Jeff Smith from Venexus discussing Search Engine Optimization (SEO) with DotNetNuke.

The last time we had Jeff Smith with us was back in issue 4 where we talked about Search Engine Optimization. We have been lucky enough to get Jeff back after 2 years to share some more of his knowledge with us.

DotNetNuke News, DNN Creative Vol 4, Upgrading

creativehost — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 04:37:00 GMT

This is a discussion between Lee Sykes and Richard Wootton recorded on the 22nd of September 2008.

We dicsuss:

DNN Creative starts Volume 4
DotNetNuke 4.9 released
DotNetNuke votes top 10 leading platforms for online communities
OpenForce
Engage Software Conference Workshop
Google Chrome Browser bugs and testing
Upgrading DotNetNuke

DotNetNuke News, Google Chrome, SEO Tips

creativehost — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:43:00 GMT

This is a discussion between Lee Sykes and Richard Wootton recorded on the 3rd of September 2008.

This podcast covers the following subjects:

DNN.com Domain Name News not DotNetNUke
OpenForce 08 Badges
Google Chrome
Forum-Quick tips
Website grader SEO tool
SEO Firefox tool
Website Monitor
Why do you need old versions of DNN?

Issue 36 - FCK Editor Toolbar, Skins and Styles Preview

Richard Wootton — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 06:30:00 GMT

September 2008

Welcome to issue 36 of DNN Creative Magazine

This issue explores the FCK Editor. The FCK Editor is used in various DotNetNuke modules such as the Text / HTML module and the Forum. The FCK Editor allows you to add text, images and any HTML code you require and has an interface similar to Microsoft Word.

We begin this issue with a demonstration of each FCK Editor Toolbar button function, covering simple text editing techniques through to advanced configuration options for links.

We then demonstrate how to change the skin of the FCK Editor, how to upload it to your DotNetNuke portal and how to apply the new skin to the FCK Editor.

Following on from this we show you how to configure the content area within the FCK Editor so that it displays the same text styling as your skin. We demonstrate how to solve problems that occur when dark colours are used for a skin background, such as text being unreadable in the editor. Finally we show you how to configure the settings in the FCK Editor within a single instance, modules of the same type and across a portal in your DotNetNuke installation.

To round this issue off, we have two podcasts. The first is an interview with Chris Chodnicki and Kevin Schreiner of R2i where we discuss the release of their new product Open Web Studio (OWS). Then, to close the issue we have a discussion between Lee Sykes and Richard Wootton of DNN Creative about what is happening in the world of DotNetNuke this month. This will be a regular segment of the magazine where we aim to keep you updated on all the latest news in DotNetNuke.

This issue comes complete with 13 video tutorials and 37 minutes of podcast interviews!

Tutorials:

Administrators:	FCK Editor Toolbar Functions (7 videos - 50mins)
	How to change the FCK Editor Skin in DotNetNuke (2 videos - 13mins)
	FCK Editor CSS Skin Styles Preview in DotNetNuke (4 videos - 31mins)
Podcasts:	Open Web Studio (OWS) Interview with R2i (19mins)
	DotNetNuke News, OpenForce 08, DNN Updates (18mins)

View issue 36 to download all of the videos in one zip file

DotNetNuke News, OpenForce 08, DNN Updates

Richard Wootton — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:31:00 GMT

This discusion between Lee Sykes and Richard Wootton was recorded on the 22nd of August 2008.

In this podcast we talk about:

OpenForce 08 Europe
OpenForce 08 Las Vegas
DotNetNuke Version 5 Cambrian
DotNetNuke Version 4.9.0
What’s happening with DNN Creative this month
DNN UK User Group

Open Web Studio (OWS) Interview with R2i

Richard Wootton — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:23:00 GMT

Interview with Chris Chodnicki and Kevin Schreiner from R2integrated discussing Open Web Studio (OWS).

Recorded on the 13th of August 2008, Chris and Kevin talk us through Open Web Studio and some of its key features as well as offering some tips on DotNetNuke in general.

FCK Editor Skin Styles Preview in DotNetNuke - 4 Videos

Richard Wootton — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:20:00 GMT

This tutorial demonstrates how to configure the content area in the FCK Editor to display the same text styles as your skin.css file.

Configuring the FCK Editor in this way makes it easier to edit the content in your site and ensure that it is correctly styled.

The tutorial shows how to solve problems such as unreadable text when editing with skins that have a dark background colour, as well as how to style the Link Gallery, Image Gallery and Custom Options FCK Editor pages.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - Introduction, Configuring the Default Editor Display Mode
Video 2 - Fixing Text Display Problems, Creating a Custom FCK Body ID
Video 3 - Styling the Image Gallery, Link Gallery, Custom Options FCK Editor Pages
Video 4 - Configuring an Instance, Module or Portal FCK Editor Display Mode

Total Time Length: 31mins

How to Change the FCK Editor Skin in DotNetNuke - 2 Videos

Richard Wootton — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:12:00 GMT

This tutorial shows how to change the skin of the FCK Editor.

The tutorial demonstrates how to download a new FCK Editor skin and upload it to your DotNetNuke portal. We then show you how to edit the web.config file settings to allow the new skin to be selected within the FCK Editor. Finally we demonstrate how to apply the new skin to the FCK Editor in DotNetNuke.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - Introduction, Uploading FCK Skins, Making the Skins Available
Video 2 - Applying the FCK Editor Skin to the DotNetNuke Portal

Total Time Length: 13mins

FCK Editor Toolbar Functions - 7 Videos

Richard Wootton — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:56:00 GMT

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

DataSprings Random Rounded Images 2.0 for DNN 4.x

creativehost — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

With Random Rounded Images, you can select multiple images to display randomly when the module loads. For example, you can add 10 images to the module, and each time you refresh or load the page one of those images will be displayed randomly.

Additionally, you can select an optional setting where images will appear with rounded corners.

ActiveModules Active Forums 4.2 Professional for DNN 4.x

Richard Wootton — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:26:00 GMT

Active Forums is designed specifically for use with DotNetNuke. It was the first fully integrated forum package for the DNN Framework and packed with many of the features you see in stand-alone forum systems.

Installation is simple and quick. Just upload, add Active Forums to the page you specify and your on-line community is ready to go.

Ethuongmai.com Enterprise Forms 5.1 for DNN 4.x & 5.x

Richard Wootton — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:00:00 GMT

Enterprise Forms is the first DotNetNuke module with an embeddable workflow engine for dynamic web forms generation and content management. It is a workflow enabled application providing business users and developers alike with the ability to develop form and content management systems.

Bring2mind Document Exchange (DMX) 5.3 for DNN 4.x & 5.x

Richard Wootton — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:45:00 GMT

Document Exchange 5 is the latest iteration of the premier document management solution for DotNetNuke.

With it you can turn your DNN installation into an incredibly capable document manager. Specify exactly who can see or edit content, document by document and build complex folder structures to reflect your management needs.

Navigation Suite(All in ONE)v1.4.18 & XML Flash & 3 Premium XHTML Skin Packs

Richard Wootton — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:28:00 GMT

The navigation suite comes with several built-in menu styles: vertical and horizontal. Gain a ultimate freedom to make your own menu style with XSL and samples. Can be used as a SkinObject and a normal module as well .

CSS and XSL files are included for customization. This offers a new way to extend the traditional way of navigation in DotnetNuke. Add this to your site and it will look totally different. Sometimes, your customers want to have different menu style than dropdown and this is the way. Or you have current skins and want to make them a bit better, more infomative? In addition with ready built-in styles, you have all the XSL source codes which is a lot easier to modify than DNN menu system. This is a only product allow you to have a complex menu system like other commercial sites and Search Engine Friendly (SEO) ready.

BizModules Ultra Media Gallery (UMG) 6.1 for DNN 4.x & 5.x

Richard Wootton — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:41:00 GMT

UMG is a complete internet picture gallery and media gallery solution.

Create photo galleries with fully customizable flash player or in Lightbox view.
Subscribe to Flickr and Google Picasa and play their pictures on your website in professional-looking interface.
Create Headline view for news headlines, site navigation, and quick links.
Show real estate pictures with virtual tour effect.
Sell digital products online.
Present personal user gallery service and let your visitors to share their work.

DNNBackup 5.2.3 - Complete Backup and Restore for DotNetNuke DNN 4.x & 5.x

creativehost — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

DNNBackup provides full backup and restore of any DotNetNuke Installation (complete DNN instances). The restore can be made back to the source server or to a new destination.

DNNBackup is perfect for moving DNN installations from your local development machine to a deployment server, from a remote server to another remote server or for archival purposes. Power users are free to customize many options. This Backup and Restore DotNetNuke module will work on ANY ISP, including shared servers like GoDaddy, WebHost4Life, Discount ASP and PowerDNN. DNNBackup is the evolution of BackupNative and BackupScript modules.

Engage: Publish 5.7 for DNN 4.x & DNN 5.x

creativehost — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Engage: Publish was developed with the purpose of allowing a portal administrator to easily implement an article management process into their web site, complete with versioning and multiple role capabilities.

Issue 35 - DotNetNuke Print Stylesheets and CSS Reference Book

creativehost — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 02:26:00 GMT

August 2008

Welcome to issue 35 of DNN Creative Magazine

In this issue we demonstrate how to create a print stylesheet for use with your DotNetNuke skins. DotNetNuke has a built-in token which allows you to print the content of a module. This is very limited in its use as it only prints the content of one module at a time. So, we demonstrate how to create a print stylesheet, how to format the layout of the print stylesheet and how to remove unwanted content from the print version of your skin. This is an essential technique for improving the usability of your DotNetNuke websites.

Also in this issue, we have produced the DNN Creative CSS Reference Book.

This is a special 112 page PDF resource to help you learn CSS for use with your DotNetNuke skins.

The CSS Reference Book explains all the currently supported properties and how to use them in an easy to understand guide. This resource is useful for both beginners and advanced users.

This issue comes complete with 7 video tutorials and a 112 page CSS Reference book!

Tutorials:

	How to Create Print Stylesheets for DotNetNuke Skins (7 videos - 50mins)
	CSS Reference Book (112 pages PDF)

View issue 35 to download all of the videos in one zip file

How to Create Print Stylesheets for DotNetNuke Skins - 7 Videos

creativehost — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 01:18:00 GMT

This tutorial demonstrates the steps to create a printable view of your web pages, so a user can simply go to the file menu in their browser window and select print. This presents the user with a printable, user friendly, readable page.

The tutorial shows you how to create a print stylesheet for your DotNetNuke skin, how to format the layout of the print stylesheet, how to change the text font so that it is suitable for reading when printed out, how to set the width of the stylesheet, how to format links, and also how to display the full URL of a link next to a text link so that it can be viewed on the printed page. Finally, we demonstrate how to select which content to make available for printing and how to remove content not required for printing, this is an essential technique for removing elements such as the menu and login links which are not required for a printed page.

The videos cover:

Video 1 - Introduction, Considerations, Setup
Video 2 - Current Print Preview, Creating the Print CSS
Video 3 - Remove Elements from the Printed Page
Video 4 - Repositioning the Content, Removing Content Styling
Video 5 - Styling the Content Pane, Re-styling the Headings
Video 6 - How to Style Links for the Printed Page
Video 7 - Styling Unordered lists, Method Two for Print Stylesheets using Javascript

Total Time Length: 50mins

CSS Reference Book - 112 page PDF

creativehost — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 01:14:00 GMT

The CSS reference book is a special 112 page resource to help you learn how to use CSS for your DotNetNuke skins.

The CSS reference book demonstrates all of the currently supported CSS properties used within CSS 2.1.

The book comes in pdf format, so this makes it easy to quickly search for a CSS property and find the information you require, complete with examples and images.

Issue 34 - 5 Free XHTML Compliant Pure CSS DotNetNuke Skins

Richard Wootton — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:50:00 GMT

July 2008

Welcome to issue 34 of DNN Creative Magazine

In this issue we have converted 5 open source html templates into DotNetNuke skins.

These templates have been chosen due to their different design and CSS techniques used. Each of these template designs used a different approach while converting them to a DotNetNuke skin, so you will be able to view the code and learn from this variety of implementations.

Skins:

	Lazy Days Fluid design, re-size the browser window and view how the balloons and buildings move. View the text styling, especially the implementation of blockquotes. The DotNetNuke control panel in this skin had to be moved to the bottom of the page so it would not interfere with the design.
	Zenlike Fluid design centred with a background image. This skin presented an interesting challenge when converting to DotNetNuke, especially so that the background image would not interfere when administrating in DNN. The control panel in this skin is placed underneath the main header.
	Bitter Sweet Stylish fixed width skin. The main challenge for this skin was the layout of the panes in DotNetNuke, if a pane did not contain any content, the layout collapsed. This was fixed by changing and improving the original CSS of the XHTML template so that it is suitable for a CMS. Notice how the title backgrounds extend outside the text in the content pane.
	Greenery Interesting fixed width design with an image cutting the skin in half. This presented interesting challenges when implementing the right pane in DotNetNuke and preventing the pane dropping below the main content in IE6.
	Dark Ritual Fixed width 3 pane skin. Dark background skins always present a challenge in DotNetNuke when working in the administration area. A 1 pane skin was created with a white background in the content area for administration tasks, along with special styling for the FCK editor so that content can be viewed when adding images and links using the FCK editor.

View issue 34 to download all of the videos in one zip file

Dark Ritual - Free DotNetNuke CSS Skin

Richard Wootton — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:53:00 GMT

Dark Ritual is a free, tableless, fixed width, XHTML compliant website. This skin comes with 2 layouts in 2 versions:

Index 3 pane skin with text header
Index 3 pane skin with logo
Admin 1 pane skin with text header
Admin 1 pane skin with logo

It also comes with 3 containers:

h1 title
h2 title
transparent, no title container

Lazy Days - Free DotNetNuke CSS Skin

Richard Wootton — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:00:00 GMT

Lazy Days is a free, tableless, W3C-compliant website design.This skin comes in 3 variations:

index – a 2 pane fluid skin
index_sub_menu - a 2 pane fluid skin with a sub menu
1 pane – a 1 pane fluid skin, suitable for the administration area in DotNetNuke

It also comes with 6 containers:

h1 title gradient
h1 title
h2 title gradient
h2 title
h3 title
transparent no title

Zenlike - Free DotNetNuke CSS Skin

Richard Wootton — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:00:00 GMT

Zenlike 1.0 is a free, lightweight, tableless, fluid W3C-compliant website design. This skin comes in 2 different types:

index_with_logo - uses the logo from the admin menu / site settings
index - uses text for the site header which you can edit in the skin files

It also comes with 5 containers:

h4 title box
h4 title no bot line
h4 title with bot line
top pane h3 title
transparent no title

Bitter Sweet - Free DotNetNuke CSS Skin

Richard Wootton — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:00:00 GMT

Bitter Sweet is a free, tableless, fixed width, XHTML compliant website design. This skin comes with 2 layouts in 2 versions:

Index 2 pane skin with text header
Index 2 pane skin with logo
Admin 1 pane skin with text header
Admin 1 pane skin with logo

It also comes with 3 containers:

h1 content pane
h2 right pane
transparent, no title container

Greenery - Free DotNetNuke CSS Skin

Richard Wootton — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:00:00 GMT

Greenery is a free, tableless, W3C-compliant website design. This skin comes with 3 variations

greenery – index (main skin)
greenery – index_submenu (main skin with a sub menu in the right pane)
greenery – admin (single pane skin for use with admin pages)

It also comes with 2 containers:

h1 title
transparent, no title container

Issue 33 - Professional DotNetNuke Administration using SQL (Part 2)

creativehost — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 05:26:00 GMT

June 2008

Welcome to issue 33 of DNN Creative Magazine

Following on from our special SQL issue last month, we are dedicating another full issue to improving the efficiency of your administration time with DotNetNuke using SQL queries.

The SQL methods we show you this month are very powerful techniques which will reduce weeks of work into seconds. These tutorials are especially useful if you are re-skinning a large DotNetNuke installation.

To begin with we demonstrate how to update the Page Settings of a page using SQL queries.

We then demonstrate how to use SQL queries to delete a group of modules from a page, move modules between content panes and insert a copy of a module to a page. If you were to manually move, delete and insert modules when re-skinning your DotNetNuke installation it could take up to 10 minutes per page, for a 500 page website this would take 5000 minutes. Using SQL queries will allow you to apply changes across your entire site within seconds.

Following this we take a look at the DotNetNuke SQL Module. This module comes free with DotNetNuke and is only available to the host user on your DotNetNuke installation. This module allows you to execute SQL queries without the need for SQL Server Express. Although we thoroughly recommend you use SQL Server Express to build and check your queries, this module is very useful if you already have a good understanding of SQL queries.

And finally, we demonstrate how to work with Skins and Containers in DotNetNuke using SQL queries. In the previous tutorials we demonstrated how to change a container on a single page, in this tutorial we show you how to change the container for a copied module that is 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.

As you can see, using all of the techniques outlined in this issue will literally save you weeks of work.

This issue comes complete with 11 videos.

Tutorials:

Administrators:	How to Update the DotNetNuke Page Settings Using SQL Queries (2 videos - 19mins)
	Administrating modules in DotNetNuke using SQL (5 videos - 35mins)
	The DotNetNuke SQL Core Module (1 video - 5mins)
	Administrating Skins and Containers using SQL (3 videos - 24mins)

View issue 33 to download all of the videos in one zip file

Administrating Skins and Containers using SQL - 3 Videos

Richard Wootton — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 02:16:00 GMT

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

The DotNetNuke SQL Core Module - Video

Richard Wootton — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 01:50:00 GMT

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

Administrating Modules in DotNetNuke using SQL - 5 Videos

Richard Wootton — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 01:40:00 GMT

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

How to Update the DotNetNuke Page Settings Using SQL Queries - 2 Videos

Richard Wootton — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 01:30:00 GMT

In this tutorial we demonstrate how to quickly update the Page Settings of a DotNetNuke page through the use of SQL queries.

You can use SQL queries to update any of the options within the Page Settings, for instance you can update the title, description, skin, container, page header tags, etc.

The techniques used in this tutorial are very useful when you are updating multiple pages at once on an already established website as it can really help to speed up your administration time.

The videos cover:

Video 1 - Introduction, Creating Test Page, Changing the Skin using SQL
Video 2 - Updating further Page Settings, Grouping SQL Queries together

Total Time Length: 19mins

Issue 32 - Powerful Efficient Techniques for DotNetNuke Administration using SQL

Richard Wootton — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:13:00 GMT

May 2008

Welcome to issue 32 of DNN Creative Magazine

This is a very special issue dedicated to improving the efficiency of your administration time with DotNetNuke.

In particular we focus on using SQL queries to automate some of the repetitive tasks that you have to carry out as an administrator on a DotNetNuke portal.

These are very powerful techniques which for large DotNetNuke websites can reduce a week of work into seconds.

If you are new to SQL you can follow each of these tutorials through step by step. To begin with we provide a quick start guide to using SQL queries with SQL Server Express. We demonstrate how to set up SQL Server Management Studio Express using Windows Vista so that you can execute a basic query on both a localhost and live DotNetNuke database.

Following this we demonstrate using SQL queries for working with DotNetNuke security roles and users, focusing on exporting registered users to Excel and removing users from a security role based on their email address.

To finish we demonstrate working with shadow / copied modules. This is an essential and powerful administration task that can enhance your DotNetNuke portals and reduce administration time. Shadow or Copied modules can be used to update the same content on several pages from one central area. We demonstrate how you can use SQL queries to easily maintain these copied modules. The SQL techniques outlined in this tutorial are very powerful techniques for easily and quickly manipulating multiple copied modules across thousands of pages in a DotNetNuke portal and are particularly useful if you are re-skinning an already established site.

This issue comes complete with 11 videos.

Tutorials:

Administrators:	Introduction to SQL Queries with SQL Server Express, DotNetNuke and Vista (4 videos - 30mins)
	SQL Queries for Exporting DotNetNuke Users and Working with Security Roles (2 videos - 17mins)
	Working with Shadow / Copied Modules and SQL in DotNetNuke (5 videos - 42mins)

View issue 32 to download all of the videos in one zip file

Working with Shadow / Copied Modules and SQL in DotNetNuke - 5 Videos

Richard Wootton — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:24:00 GMT

In this tutorial we demonstrate how to use shadow / copied modules. This is an essential and powerful administration task that can enhance your DotNetNuke portals and reduce administration time.

Shadow or Copied modules can be used to update the same content on several pages from one central area.

Following this we then demonstrate how you can use SQL queries to easily maintain these copied modules.

The SQL techniques outlined in this tutorial are very powerful techniques for easily and quickly manipulating multiple copied modules across thousands of pages in a DotNetNuke portal.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - Introduction, Shadow Modules, Add Existing Module
Video 2 - Copy Module to All Pages and Reordering Modules
Video 3 - SQL Queries to Update the Module Order in Content Panes
Video 4 - How to Update the Container for All Shadow / Copied Modules in a Portal Using SQL
Video 5 - Using SQL to Update a Module Container to a New Container Based on the Name of the Old Container

Total Time Length: 42mins

SQL Queries for Exporting DotNetNuke Users and Working with Security Roles - 2 Videos

Richard Wootton — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:14:00 GMT

In this tutorial we demonstrate using SQL queries for working with DotNetNuke security roles and users.

Using SQL queries can help you to easily maintain and manipulate the registered user and security role data in your DotNetNuke portal. These SQL query methods are ideal for managing users of your DotNetNuke portal for email newsletters, paid subscriptions, etc.

If you do not have any experience of SQL, we demonstrate how you can use the built in Query Editor in SQL Server Express to build your own SQL queries.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - Introduction to SQL queries and How to Use The Query Editor
Video 2 - Exporting Users and Removing Security Roles using SQL

Total Time Length: 16mins

Introduction to SQL Queries with SQL Server Express, DotNetNuke and Vista - 4 Videos

Richard Wootton — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:05:00 GMT

In this tutorial we provide a quick start guide to using SQL queries with SQL Server Express. In particular we demonstrate how to set up SQL Server Express so that you can execute SQL queries on your DotNetNuke database, on both a local and a live database.

This tutorial helps you to set up SQL Server Management Studio Express and execute a basic query, following this tutorial you can then progress onto the more advanced SQL query tutorials.

The videos contain:

Video 1 - How to Attach a DotNetNuke Database to SQL Server Express using Windows Vista
Video 2 - How to Create a User Account and set up Permissions
Video 3 - How to Edit the Web.config Connection String
Video 4 - How to Create a SQL Query, How to Connect to a Live Database

Total Time Length: 29mins

Issue 31 – Installing DotNetNuke to Vista and using Virtual PC

Richard Wootton — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:27:00 GMT

April 2008

Welcome to issue 31 of DNN Creative Magazine

In this issue we demonstrate how to install DotNetNuke to Windows Vista and how to use Virtual PC 2007. To begin with, we walk you through how to configure and install the required programmes for DotNetNuke using a fresh installation of Windows Vista Ultimate and then demonstrate the installation of DotNetNuke to Windows Vista.

Following this, we show you how to setup and use Microsoft’s Virtual PC 2007. Virtual PC virtualizes the hardware of a physical computer; this means that a Virtual PC uses a standard hardware configuration which is not reliant on the hardware of the host computer. Therefore you can transfer a Virtual PC to another host computer without any software driver issues.

Virtual PC is ideal for setting up various applications when working with DotNetNuke. There are many possibilities for improving your working environment by using Virtual PC and in this tutorial we provide a quick start guide to Virtual PC.

This issue comes complete with 6 videos.

Tutorials:

Administrators:	How to install DotNetNuke to Vista (4 videos – 33mins)
	How to setup and use Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 (2 videos – 17mins)

View issue 31 to download all of the videos in one zip file

How to install DotNetNuke to Vista - 4 Videos

Richard Wootton — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:34:00 GMT

In this tutorial we demonstrate how to install DotNetNuke v4.8.1 to Windows Vista. You can install DotNetNuke to Vista home premium, business, and ultimate editions.

We walk you through how to configure and install the required programmes for installing DotNetNuke using a fresh installation of Windows Vista Ultimate, once we have setup the required programmes we then demonstrate how to install DotNetNuke to Vista Ultimate.

The videos cover:

Video 1 - Introduction, configuring Vista, installing IIS and downloading SQL Server
Video 2 - Installing SQL Server Express
Video 3 - Configuring IIS
Video 4 - Installing DotNetNuke and initial configuration

Total Time Length: 33mins

How to setup and use Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 - 2 Videos

Richard Wootton — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 06:42:00 GMT

In this tutorial we demonstrate how to setup and use Microsoft’s Virtual PC 2007. Virtual PC is available for free download and it allows you to run multiple operating systems at the same time within one physical computer.

Virtual PC virtualizes the hardware of a physical computer; this means that a Virtual PC uses a standard hardware configuration which is not reliant on the hardware of the host computer. Therefore you can transfer a Virtual PC to another host computer without any software driver issues.

There are many possibilities for improving your working environment by using Virtual PC and in this tutorial we provide a quick start guide to Virtual PC.

The videos cover:

Video 1 - Introduction and installation of Virtual PC
Video 2 - Installation of Windows Vista to Virtual PC

Total Time Length: 17mins

Issue 30 - Ecommerce, Store Module, PayPal Sandbox, Store Module Reviews

creativehost — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:03:00 GMT

March 2008

Welcome to issue 30 of DNN Creative Magazine

This issue covers E-commerce in DotNetNuke. We begin with the DotNetNuke Store core module. We demonstrate in detail the various configurations that are available with the store so that you can sell your own products using DotNetNuke. We cover elements such as configuration, tax, shipping, categories, products, accounts, managing, CSS, styling, templates, testing and PayPal.

This leads onto the next tutorial which demonstrates how to setup and use the PayPal Developer Sandbox. This allows you to test dummy transactions from a seller to a merchant account without sending any actual money. This is an essential technique for testing your DotNetNuke stores.

Alongside the tutorials we have reviewed four DotNetNuke store modules, the AliCommerce shopping cart, CATALook store, AspDotNetStoreFront and Active Purchase.

This issue comes complete with 9 videos.

Tutorials:

Administrators:	DotNetNuke store core module (8 videos – 72mins)
	How to setup and use the PayPal Sandbox (1 video – 13mins)
Module Reviews:	AspDotNetStoreFront Module
	Active Purchase Module

	CATALook Store Module

View issue 30 to download all of the videos in one zip file

Store DotNetNuke Core Module - 8 Videos

Richard Wootton — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 05:32:00 GMT

In this tutorial we demonstrate how to use the DotNetNuke Store core module. We demonstrate how to set up a store module that sells mountain bikes and how to configure the module to sell those products via PayPal.

The store module consists of five individual modules. We cover each of these modules in detail.

The videos cover:

Video 1 - Introduction to the store modules and initial configuration
Video 2 - PayPal gateway provider, tax and shipping, categories
Video 3 - Adding products, offers, initial configuration for displaying products
Video 4 - Store account, reviews, test purchasing a product using PayPal sandbox
Video 5 - Managing orders, viewing emails, reviews, shipping setup
Video 6 - Module styling, CSS, fixing errors
Video 7 - Configuring display of Store Catalog module
Video 8 - Working with templates to change the layout and style of the store

Total Time Length: 72mins

How to setup and use the PayPal Sandbox - Video

creativehost — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 04:50:00 GMT

In this tutorial we demonstrate how to setup the PayPal Sandbox test environment. This allows you to create test PayPal buyer and seller accounts which you can then use to test the selling of products within DotNetNuke.

For instance, if you are using the DotNetNuke store core module, there is an option within the admin settings to use the PayPal sandbox, if you tick this option the store will ask for payment via the sandbox rather than the main PayPal website. This allows you to log in as a test user and send dummy test payments.

This is an essential technique for your ecommerce toolbox.

Time Length: 13mins

CATALook Store - DotNetNuke Module Review

creativehost — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 05:40:00 GMT

This is an independent review of the CATALook Store Module. The review looks at the module for its features, useability, functionality, ease of use, stability, value for money.

CATALook.net Store Standard for DotNetNuke Versions: 1/2/3/4

Condensed Feature List of Standard/Pro:

Ecommerce Shopping Cart Software
Product Catalog
Search Engine Optimized
Renting System
Booking Tools
Ticket Counter
Media Gallery
Product Configurator
Item Packages
Customizable Data Entry Forms
Real Time Shipping Rate Calculation And Package Tracking With UPS And USPS
Custom Shipping Rating System
QuickBooks Export
3 DNN Skins And 12 DNN Containers Included
Multi-Vendor Capable
Ajax Support
Using Components From The Telerik RadControls Suite
Product Comparison

Issue 29 - UDT Module, Token Replacement, Skinning Search Box

creativehost — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:22:00 GMT

February 2008

Welcome to issue 29 of DNN Creative Magazine

In this issue we walk you through the User Defined Table (UDT) core module. This module is a very flexible module and we explore in detail the various configurations that this module can create. We cover creating tables, templates, filters, paging, sorting, calculated columns, and XSL transformation file editing and generation.

We then demonstrate Token Replacement, which allows you to place tokens within the content of the Text / HTML, Newsletter and UDT modules. The tokens can display information such as the username, first name, portal title etc. Token Replacement provides a powerful way of personalizing the user experience.

Following this, we have included a skinning tutorial which walks you through various techniques that you can use to style the search box in DotNetNuke.

Alongside the tutorials we have reviewed the Mandeeps.com Live Content web 2.0 module.

To finish, we have created a video interview with Dave Snow, covering his DotNetNuke website, CSS skinning, modules and tips. This is a 100minute video interview where Dave walks us through his website as an administrator. It is available for free download from www.dotnetnukepodcast.com

This issue comes complete with 12 videos.

Tutorials:

Administrators:	User Defined Table (UDT) DotNetNuke Core Module (9 videos – 76mins)
	Token Replacement in DotNetNuke (1 video – 13mins)
Skinning:	How to style and skin the search box in DotNetNuke (2 videos – 24mins)
Module Reviews:	Mandeeps Live Content Web 2.0 DotNetNuke Module Review
Podcasts:	Dave Snow, Aging Safely DotNetNuke website, Video Interview

View issue 29 to download all of the videos in one zip file

Dave Snow, Aging Safely DotNetNuke website, Video Interview

creativehost — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:01:00 GMT

Live video interview presentation with Dave Snow from Aging Safely Inc. This is a live walk through of Dave’s DotNetNuke website. Dave is a subscriber to DNN Creative Magazine. He has taken the CSS skinning tutorials and applied some of the principles to his own skins while also adapting the CSS to suit his own needs.

Dave’s site is interesting in that it implements a pure CSS skin along with some interesting use of 3rd party modules, so I thought it would be good to do a video interview with Dave and ask him to walk us through his DotNetNuke website. This video goes into the full detail of looking through the modules and skins on the website as an administrator.

Mandeeps Live Content 1.2 - DotNetNuke Module Review

creativehost — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:56:00 GMT

This is an independent review of Mandeeps LiveContent v1.2. The review looks at the module for its features, useability, functionality, ease of use, stability, value for money.

Module Details

According to Mandeeps, Live Content uses a web 2.0 approach to provide a rich user interface and streamlines content presentation by overlaying content on the current page.

Inspired from Mandeeps Live Images/Videos module, Live Content allows you to overlay images, videos, text/html content, DotNetNuke modules, and external content on the current page. Driven by CSS and layout templates; this module is limited by your imagination to create Image/Video Galleries, Product Showcase, ToolTips, Module Popper, etc...

How to style and skin the search box in DotNetNuke - 2 Videos

creativehost — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:52:00 GMT

In this video tutorial we demonstrate how to style the search box in DotNetNuke skins. We walk you through how we applied the styling to the search box in the free ‘internet sharing’ skin.

This covers how we expanded the width of the search box, how to use a graphic for the search box, how to style the text that the search box uses, how to style the search link as a button and how to replace the search link with an image.

Token Replacement in DotNetNuke - Video

creativehost — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:49:00 GMT

In this tutorial we demonstrate how to use Token Replacement which is available for DotNetNuke versions 4.6 and above.

Token replacement allows you to display information such as the username, date, portal title etc. and you can display this information directly within the text of your modules.

Token Replacement is currently available for the Text / HTML, Newsletter and User Defined Table (UDT) core modules, and it is likely that it will be included in other core modules in future releases as well.

Time Length: 13mins

DotNetNuke User Defined Table (UDT) Module - 9 Videos

creativehost — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:40:00 GMT

In this tutorial we demonstrate how to use the User Defined Table (UDT) module. The UDT module allows you to create a custom table and store records within that table.

The table can include sorting of columns, paging, filtering by content and search. It also includes some powerful features such as the use of calculated columns, token replacement and layout templates through the use of XSL transformation files.

The videos cover:

Video 1 - Installation, creating a basic table
Video 2 - Adding records, sorting, creating a second UDT table
Video 3 - Calculated columns, advanced options
Video 4 - Permissions, users adding content
Video 5 - Advanced options for data types
Video 6 - Display settings
Video 7 - Search, predefined XSL transformation files (templates)
Video 8 - Editing and auto generation of XSL transformation files
Video 9 - Further XSL transformation file options and tokens

Total Time Length: 76mins

Xepient Solutions Open-DocumentLibrary v4.1 for DNN 3.x, DNN 4.x and DNN 5.x

Richard Wootton — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:28:00 GMT

Powerful, Ajax Enabled, Easy to Use.

Open Document Library offers an intuitive user interface that allows content to be structured at any level of complexity.

Documents can be stored in a folder as well as be assigned to multiple categories. Folders and categories can be nested to any level and users can be given the option to browse documents through the folders as well as the category trees.

The Xepient Open-DocumentLibrary and Open-SearchEngine modules have been acquired by DotNetNuke Corp. These modules are available for sale and any purchases will be supported by Xepient.

The modules will be integrated into the DotNetNuke Corp. product family in the near future. They may no longer be available for purchase after they are integrated. Support from Xepient will be available for existing customers if the modules are no longer available on Snowcovered.

BizModules Ultra Video Gallery (UVG) 3 for DNN 4.x & 5.x

Richard Wootton — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:44:00 GMT

The major purpose of UVG can be divided to 3 parts:

Allow site users to add new videos
Encode uploaded videos for internet usage:
Play videos in flash video player

DataSprings Testimonials 2.0 for DNN 3.x and DNN 4.x

creativehost — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 10:39:00 GMT

The Testimonials Module allows you to display customer testimonials on your site, as well as an easy method for users to submit testimonials about your web site, services, or products in general.

Easily add credibilty and attention to your site, while allowing customers the ability to provide feedback on your services.

DNNDev XMod 5.5 - Forms Views and Lists for DNN 4.x

Richard Wootton — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 09:10:00 GMT

XMod enables you to create solutions that meet the unique needs of your site. With it, you can create custom data entry forms and displays for that data - without having to be a programmer. When you invest in XMod, you don't just get a single module. You get hundreds or thousands of modules because XMod enables you to build so many different solutions.

DNN Stuff Aggregator 6.0 inc 1 Year Membership for DNN 4.5.x & 5.x

creativehost — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Aggregator 6.0 (Tabbed Modules) is a flexible module that acts as a tabbed container or localization container for 1 or more modules.

Benefits:

Reduces clutter by combining modules together into an attractive tabbed interface
Makes your pages seem quicker and more responsive with client side operation
Matches the look and feel of your website with a powerful skinning engine

DataSprings Info Pics Gallery for DNN 3.x and DNN 4.x

creativehost — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Info Pics Module allows you to display thumbnail pictures with information to the user about each picture, along with a detailed description regarding the set of pictures and several other optional links.

DataSprings Flash Image Rotator 2.0 for DNN 3.x and DNN 4.x

creativehost — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Flash Image Rotator displays selected images and then rotates between the images. Several extended and optional features allow you to select the time to rotate each image, fade between images, and also display the images in either sequential or random order.

Advanced Image V3.1 for DNN 3.x, DNN 4.x and DNN 5.x

creativehost — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Manage a single image or multiple images within a single module with Advanced Image. Dynamic image resizing, multi-image displays, resize on upload, titles, descriptions.

Issue 28 - CSS Skinning from a XHTML Template, OpenForce 07, Podcasts - part 2

creativehost — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 02:51:00 GMT

January 2008

Welcome to issue 28 of DNN Creative Magazine

This issue is part 2 from the DotNetNuke OpenForce 07 conference in Las Vegas at the Mandalay Bay Casino Hotel. The tutorials this month demonstrate the skinning presentation that Lee Sykes gave at the conference, except for in much more detail.

The skinning demonstration at the conference was 30 minutes; this is the second part of the 2 x 1 hour detailed tutorials where we convert a free XHTML template into a DotNetNuke skin.

Following this we have released 7 additional podcast interviews from the OpenForce Conference: www.dotnetnukepodcast.com

This issue comes complete with 7 videos.

Tutorials:

Skinning:

How to create a DotNetNuke CSS skin from an XHTML template – part 2
(7 videos – 60min)

Podcasts:

Tracy Wittenkeller, Malik Khan, Alex Delreal, and Brad Schafer – Interview covering OpenForce 07 to DotNetNuke Skinning

Peter Schotman – Cestus Websites - DNN Menus, Interview at OpenForce 07

Charles Nurse – DotNetNuke Core Team - DotNetNuke Performance, OpenForce 07

Jon Henning – DotNetNuke Core Team, Interview at OpenForce 07

Cathal Connolly – DotNetNuke Core Team, Interview at OpenForce 07

Joe Brinkman – DotNetNuke Core Team, Interview at OpenForce 07

Kelly Ford – DNN Dev - XMOD, Interview at OpenForce 07

View issue 28 to download all of the videos in one zip file

How to create a DotNetNuke CSS skin from an XHTML template (part 2) - 7 Videos

creativehost — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:59:00 GMT

This tutorial is part 2 of the How to create a DotNetNuke skin from an XHTML template tutorial.

In Part 2 of the tutorial we cover how to create the containers, semantically coding the content, styling and formatting the content, overriding the DotNetNuke default classes, how to easily add the additional skin layout variations, and how to setup and create a print.css file so that you can style your own print layout of the skin.

The videos cover:

Video 1 - Creating the containers
Video 2 - Text styling and overriding the default DotNetNuke styles
Video 3 - Styling the header tags
Video 4 - Styling content based on the content pane location
Video 5 - Creating layout variations
Video 6 - Creating an additional styled menu
Video 7 - How to create a print layout (print.css)

Total Time Length: 60mins

Malik, Tracy, Alex and Brad, Interview covering OpenForce to Skinning

creativehost — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:38:00 GMT

Interview at the DotNetNuke OpenForce 07 conference in Las Vegas. At the end of one of the presentations people were hanging about so I went over to Malik, Tracy and Alex who were sat on the floor to get a background about them and how they use DotNetNuke. At this point I finished the interview as I just wanted to get an introduction to some of the business community in DotNetNuke. Of course we then carried on the conversation and it turned into Tracy interviewing myself about CSS skinning, so I started recording again as I thought it would be interesting to have a listen to, Brad then came over and we also covered other elements such as localization and OpenForce. This was the good thing about OpenForce, lots of conversations hearing how people are implementing DotNetNuke for their own businesses.

Peter Schotman – DNN Menus, Interview at OpenForce 07

creativehost — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:36:00 GMT

Interview at the DotNetNuke OpenForce 07 conference in Las Vegas. This interview took place at the speakers cocktail party, we discussed how Peter develops DotNetNuke websites for his clients, CSS based skins, usability, and Peter’s OpenForce presentation on Menu controls covering the Solpart, Snapsis, Telerik and Nav menus.

Charles Nurse, DotNetNuke Performance, OpenForce 07

creativehost — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:34:00 GMT

Interview at the DotNetNuke OpenForce07 conference in Las Vegas with Charles Nurse at the speakers’ cocktail party. Discussing the presentation by Charles on DotNetNuke performance, where he outlined the performance plan, tools, identifying code blockages and the performance improvements that were made with example benchmark figures.

Jon Henning, Interview at OpenForce 07

creativehost — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:30:00 GMT

Interview at the DotNetNuke Open Force 07 conference in Las Vegas. Covering the projects Jon is currently working on, discussing ClientAPI, Web Controls, to the Nav Menu and the new features that will make it a very powerful menu. Jon is currently looking for beta testers for the menu, so if you are interested visit the project area on the main dotnetnuke.com site.

Cathal Connolly, Interview at OpenForce 07

creativehost — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:27:00 GMT

Interview at the DotNetNuke OpenForce 07 conference in Las Vegas. I managed to quickly do an interview with Cathal on Thursday morning in the speakers room before the final presentation for the conference. Covering Cathal’s roles in the DotNetNuke core team, looking towards the future with website compliance and accessibility, plus thoughts on OpenForce.

Joe Brinkman, Interview at OpenForce 07

creativehost — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:17:00 GMT

Interview at the DotNetNuke OpenForce07 conference in Las Vegas. Speaking with Joe at the end of the conference to hear his thoughts on OpenForce. Covering meeting the DotNetNuke community, learning about various businesses implementations of DotNetNuke, an international audience, the opportunity for feedback and 500,000 registered users!

Kelly Ford - XMOD, Interview at OpenForce 07

creativehost — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:13:00 GMT

Interview at the DotNetNuke OpenForce07 conference in Las Vegas. Kelly was the last interview of the conference. I had been trying to find Kelly throughout the whole conference and we finally got the chance to meet and have a good chat at the end of the last presentation. We were the last two people left in the presentation room and it was a good way to finish the OpenForce event.

Issue 27 - CSS Skinning from a XHTML Template, OpenForce 07, Podcasts

creativehost — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 06:43:00 GMT

December 2007

Welcome to issue 27 of DNN Creative Magazine

This issue is related to the DotNetNuke OpenForce 07 conference in Las Vegas at the Mandalay Bay Casino Hotel. The tutorials this month demonstrate the skinning presentation that Lee Sykes gave at the conference, except for in much more detail! The skinning demonstration at the conference was 30 minutes; we have turned this into 2 x 1 hour tutorials split over the next two issues.

Following this we have released 5 podcast interviews from the OpenForce Conference, and have launched a new site: www.dotnetnukepodcast.com where podcasts will be regularly released for free. More podcasts will be released from the OpenForce conference in the next issue with part 2 of the skinning video tutorials.

This issue comes complete with 6 videos.

Tutorials:

Skinning:	How to create a DotNetNuke CSS skin from an XHTML template – part 1 (6 videos – 51min 32secs)
Podcasts:	Nik Kalyani - DotNetNuke Core Team, Interview at OpenForce 07 Tony Valenti and John Grange - PowerDNN Hosting, Interview at OpenForce 07 Peter Donker - Bring2Mind, Interview at OpenForce 07 Sebastian Leupold - DotNetNuke Core Team, Interview at OpenForce 07 Attendees of the DotNetNuke presentations, Interview at OpenForce 07

View issue 27 to download all of the skins in one zip file

Nik Kalyani, Interview at OpenForce 07

creativehost — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 05:18:00 GMT

Interview at the DotNetNuke OpenForce07 conference in Las Vegas. Covering DotNetNuke Cambrian v5, the new features from workflow to social networking, business context, widgets and new skinning engine, the sustainability of DotNetNuke and the experiences at OpenForce07. I managed to speak to Nik just at the end of the conference after the final presentation.

PowerDNN Hosting, Interview at OpenForce 07

creativehost — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 05:14:00 GMT

Interview at the DotNetNuke OpenForce07 conference in Las Vegas. Covering an introduction to PowerDNN, typical problems they see for DotNetNuke users, through to portals and best practices, business solutions and DotNetNuke v5 Cambrian. Plus, the added bonus was the Microsoft hot models coming over for a chat mid interview, we had to leave it in! ;-)

Peter Donker - Bring2Mind, Interview at OpenForce 07

creativehost — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 05:10:00 GMT

We discuss localisation, language packs and the future possibilities with DotNetNuke.This is a classic interview, time was always short at the Openforce conference so we managed to squeeze in an interview while walking to the speakers cocktail party. Needless to say we got plenty of funny looks walking through the Manadlay Bay Casino Hotel while Peter also video recorded us both at the same time!

Sebastian Leupold, Interview at OpenForce 07

creativehost — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 05:07:00 GMT

Interview at the DotNetNuke OpenForce07 conference in Las Vegas. This interview took place at the speakers cocktail party, we discussed DotNetNuke for an international audience, localization, the UDT module and tokens.

Sebastian is a DotNetNuke core team member, team lead for the “User Defined Table (UDT)” module, he creates and maintains the German language packs and is co-founder of the German DotNetNuke user group.

Attendees of the DotNetNuke presentations, Interview at OpenForce 07

creativehost — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 04:55:00 GMT

We were waiting for the presentation by Charles Nurse to begin on DotNetNuke performance and started chatting about DotNetNuke, OpenForce, etc. and so I quickly started recording.

This should give you all an idea of how helpful the conference has been for DotNetNuke users. I was chatting with Joe Craig, Mike Griffiths and two other guys (sorry didn’t catch your names – let me know your details!)

How to create a DotNetNuke CSS skin from an XHTML template (part 1) - 6 Videos

creativehost — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 04:43:00 GMT

In this tutorial we demonstrate how to convert a free open source XHTML pure CSS template into a DotNetNuke skin.

We demonstrate how to convert the andreas01 template created by Andreas Viklund.

This tutorial is in two parts, part 1 covers how to transfer the structure of an XHTML template into a DotNetNuke skin and how to adapt it to create the content panes, the menu and various DotNetNuke tokens.

The videos cover:

Video 1 - Introduction and preparations
Video 2 - Creation of content panes
Video 3 - Login links and packaging skin
Video 4 - How to fix layout display problems
Video 5 - How to create the menu
Video 6 - Adding the search box and validating the skin

Total Time Length: 52mins

Issue 26 - Deployment and Synchronization, Admin Menu Access and Free CSS DotNetNuke Skin

creativehost — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:41:00 GMT

November 2007

Welcome to issue 26 of DNN Creative Magazine

In this issue we explore the development and deployment of a DotNetNuke website, how to synchronise a local installation with a live installation.

This allows you to update the content on the live or local installation and keep both versions in sync without taking the live site offline.

We also demonstrate how to set access to the admin menu so that users can access elements of the menu without the need for full administration privileges.

To finish, we have also included a new pure CSS XHTML skin.

This issue comes complete with 5 videos.

Tutorials:

Administrators:	How to synchronize local and live DotNetNuke installations (Deployment using Red Gate Data Compare software) (4 videos – 33mins)
	How to limit access to the admin menu (Video - 11min)
Skin:	Free CSS Skin – Internet Sharing

View issue 26 to download all of the skins in one zip file

How to Synchronize Local and Live DotNetNuke Installations - 4 Videos

creativehost — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 04:11:00 GMT

(Red Gate - SQL Data Compare)

In this tutorial we explore the development and deployment of a DotNetNuke website that is already online. - How to synchronise a local installation with a live installation.

In this tutorial we demonstrate how to add updates to the local version and apply those updates to the live version while keeping both versions completely synchronised and without taking the live site offline and vice versa.

We demonstrate how you can synchronize a live hosted website using SQL Server 2005 with a localhost installation using SQL Server Express.

The videos cover:

Video 1 - Introduction, Setup, Comparing Databases, Viewing Data
Video 2 - Editing the local installation and comparing with the live installation
Video 3 - Synching local database to live and live to local
Video 4 - Synching multiple simultaneous edits on live and local installations

Total Time Length: 33mins

How to limit access to the admin menu - Video

creativehost — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 04:05:00 GMT

In this tutorial we demonstrate how you can enable additional users without the administrator security role, access to the pages from the DotNetNuke admin menu.

There are many times when you may want to give a user who edits the content of your site access to the 'Pages’ or ‘Newsletters’ menu items, but at the same time, you may not wish to give them any further access to the admin menu, such as access to the ‘Site Settings’.

In this tutorial we outline how you can give users additional rights to access individual pages from the admin menu.

Time Length: 11mins

Internet Sharing – Free DotNetNuke CSS Skin

creativehost — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 03:59:00 GMT

This free XHTML / CSS website template is available to use without any limitations. It can be used on a non-commercial site as well as on a commercial one.

The skin contains six content panes:

Top pane
Content pane
Content left pane
Content mid pane
Content right pane
Right pane

And also comes with 6 containers:

h1 container
h2 container
h3 container
h3_lowercontent_panes
h3_right_pane
transparent, no title container

Issue 25 - Pure CSS SEO Layouts for DotNetNuke skins

creativehost — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 10:45:00 GMT

October 2007

Welcome to issue 25 of DNN Creative Magazine, this is our second year anniversary!

In this issue we demonstrate how to create advanced pure CSS search engine optimized skin layouts.

These techniques were developed for the new DNN Creative skin. Following the release of the DNN Creative skin we have responded to the requests of our subscribers for tutorials covering how to create these SEO CSS skins.

Continuing the SEO CSS skin layout tutorials we also explore multiple skin layout techniques and reducing CSS code through the skinname.css file.

These are advanced and flexible techniques for improving your pure CSS skins.

This issue comes complete with 8 videos.

Tutorials:

	Pure CSS SEO Layouts for DotNetNuke skins (8 videos – 64mins)
	Multiple skin layouts using skinname.CSS (1 video – 8mins)

View issue 25 to download all of the skins in one zip file

Pure CSS SEO Layouts for DotNetNuke skins - 7 Videos

creativehost — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 09:54:00 GMT

In this tutorial we demonstrate how to create pure CSS skin layouts that are Search Engine Optimized. We achieve this by taking advantage of using absolute positioning and floats.

This technique was developed for the new DNN Creative skin. Following the release of the DNN Creative skin we received several enquiries regarding how we placed the main text content at the top of the source code and the less important content towards the end.

Ordering the source code helps search engines to easily find and index the important content of your website and therefore will help to improve your search engine results.

In this tutorial we demonstrate the techniques using a stripped down version of the DNN Creative skin.

The videos cover:

Video 1 - Introduction, file preparations and initial styling
Video 2 - Creating the content panes
Video 3 - Layout of the content panes
Video 4 - Styling the content panes and footer
Video 5 - Positioning the content panes and menu
Video 6 - Positioning additional skin tokens
Video 7 - Positioning horizontal banner pane and IE hacks

Total Time Length: 64mins

Multiple skin layouts using skinname.css - Video

creativehost — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 09:49:00 GMT

This tutorial is part 2 of the Pure CSS Search Engine Optimized Skin Layouts tutorial. We previously demonstrated how to create a 3 pane skin using floats and absolute positioning. We are now going to demonstrate how to create multiple skin layouts using a skinname.css file.

Using the skinname.css file technique allows you to easily create variations of skins while also reducing the amount of code placed in the skin.css file.

In this video tutorial we create a 2 pane version of the CSS skin using minimal code changes.

Time Length: 8mins

Issue 24 - Page Templates and Page Management

creativehost — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 15:38:00 GMT

September 2007

Welcome to issue 24 of DNN Creative Magazine.

In this issue we demonstrate how to work with and create your own page templates. We have discovered an easy technique for creating page templates so that you do not require any programming skills to create complex templates.

Page templates are a powerful time saving tool. If you have certain modules that you regularly need to add to a page, you can do this automatically with a page template. If you have content in a Text / HTML module that you always use as a starting point, you can have default content added to a module through a page template.

Following page templates we demonstrate the new page management functions in the latest versions of DotNetNuke. This covers username permissions and various page copying functions.

This issue comes complete with 6 videos.

Tutorials:

	How to create Page Templates in DotNetNuke (4 videos – 32mins)
	Page Management – New Functions DotNetNuke v4.5.x (2 videos – 19mins)

View issue 24 to download all of the videos in one zip file

How to create Page Templates in DotNetNuke - 4 Videos

creativehost — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 14:44:00 GMT

In this tutorial we demonstrate how to use and create page templates in DotNetNuke. Page templates allow you to add modules, data, and configuration settings to a page when you first create a new page.

This is a fantastic time saving tool, for instance if you have certain modules that you regularly need to add to a page, you can do this automatically with a page template. If you have content in a Text / HTML module that you always use as a starting point, you can have default content added to a module through a page template.

The videos cover:

Video 1 - Introduction, default page template, code explanation
Video 2 - The simple method for creating a page template
Video 3 - Completing your first page template
Video 4 - A complex page template with multiple modules

Total Time Length: 32mins

Page Management – New Functions DotNetNuke v4.5.x - 2 Videos

creativehost — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 14:39:00 GMT

In this tutorial we demonstrate working with the new page management options in the latest DotNetNuke version 4.5.

In these video tutorials we demonstrate:

Username Permissions: How to quickly add a user for view and edit permissions without the need for creating a special security role for that individual user
Copy permissions to descendants
Copy design to descendants
Copy page functions: How to copy modules from an existing page to a new page using the ‘new / copy / reference’ options

Total Time Length: 19min

Issue 23 - 5 Free CSS XHTML Compliant DotNetNuke Skins

creativehost — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 08:58:00 GMT

August 2007

Welcome to issue 23 of DNN Creative Magazine.

We have now completed the changeover to the new pure CSS skin for DNN Creative, so for issue 23 we have released 5 free pure CSS XHTML compliant skins for DotNetNuke.

These skins are open source html templates which we have converted to DotNetNuke skins.

Viewing the code from a variety of designers helps to improve your CSS skills and learn multiple techniques for manipulating the layouts and styling of CSS skins.

Free CSS Skins:

	andreas 01
	andreas 09
	Summer Breeze
	FreeStyle
	Curiously Green

View issue 23 to download all of the skins in one zip file

Curiously Green - Free DotNetNuke CSS Skin

creativehost — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 08:46:00 GMT

Curiously.green1.0 is a free, lightweight, tableless, W3C-compliant skin. This skin comes in 2 different types:

with_logo - uses the logo from the admin menu / site settings
no_logo - uses text for the site header which you can edit in the skin files

It also comes with 5 containers:

h1 container
h2 container
h3 container
transparent, no title container
box (a highlighted container)

FreeStyle – Free DotNetNuke CSS Skin

creativehost — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 08:42:00 GMT

FreeStyle is a free XHTML compliant pure CSS skin. This skin comes in 2 different types:

index_logo - uses the logo from the admin menu / site settings
index - uses text for the site header which you can edit in the skin files

It also comes with 4 containers:

h1 container
h2 container
h3 container
transparent, no title container

Summer Breeze – Free DotNetNuke CSS Skin

creativehost — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 08:39:00 GMT

Summer Breeze is a free XHTML pure CSS skin. This skin comes in 2 different types:

index_logo - uses the logo from the admin menu / site settings
index - uses text for the site header which you can edit in the skin files

It also comes with 4 containers:

h1 container
h2 container
h3 container
transparent, no title container

Andreas 09 – Free DotNetNuke CSS Skin

creativehost — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 08:35:00 GMT

Andreas 09 is a free XHTML/CSS skin. This skin comes with 3 different layouts and 7 colours:

3 panes
2 panes with the side menu on the left
2 panes with the side menu on the right

It also comes with 4 containers, they are automatically styled depending on the pane you insert them into:

h1 container
h2 container
h3 container
transparent, no title container

Andreas 01 – Free DotNetNuke CSS Skin

creativehost — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 08:31:00 GMT

Andreas 01 is a free XHTML/CSS skin. This skin comes with 3 different layouts:

3 panes
2 panes with the menu on the left
2 panes with the menu on the right

It also comes with 4 containers:

h1 container
h2 container
h3 container
transparent, no title container

Issue 22 - Transferring DotNetNuke installations localhost / live, SQL Find and Replace

creativehost — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 04:29:00 GMT

July 2007

Welcome to issue 22 of DNN Creative Magazine.

In this issue we demonstrate how to transfer a localhost DotNetNuke installation to a live website and vice versa.

This is an essential technique to learn for successfully working with DotNetNuke installations on a live hosted website and a localhost installation.

Following this we demonstrate how to use a find and replace SQL procedure to find and replace any content within the text / html module across an entire DotNetNuke installation. This is a very powerful technique for solving problems such as changing the URLs of images after transferring a DotNetNuke installation.

This issue comes complete with 11 videos.

Tutorials:

	How to backup a live hosted DotNetNuke website and restore it to a localhost installation (SQL server 2005 to SQL server 2005 express) (4 videos - 35mins)
	How to transfer a localhost DotNetNuke installation to a live website (SQL server 2005 express to SQL server 2005) (4 videos – 33mins)
	Find and Replace SQL queries for DotNetNuke (To fix problems after transferring a localhost database to a live website and other useful functions) (3 videos – 25mins)

View issue 22 to download all of the videos in one zip file

How to backup a live hosted DotNetNuke website and restore it to a localhost installation - 4 Videos

creativehost — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 08:55:00 GMT

(SQL server 2005 to SQL server 2005 express)

In this video tutorial we demonstrate how to backup a live hosted DotNetNuke website and install it on a localhost computer.

This enables you to test elements such as new modules and new skins before installing them on your live website and allows you to keep a backup copy of your website on your own personal computer.

This is an important technique to learn as it can prevent installation issues occurring with the live website. For instance, when upgrading DotNetNuke you can download the live site to a localhost computer and run the upgrade process on the localhost installation to check that no errors occur before applying it to the live website.

In this tutorial we demonstrate transferring a live website from a SQL server 2005 database to a localhost installation using SQL server 2005 express

How to transfer a localhost DotNetNuke installation to a live website - 4 Videos

creativehost — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 08:49:00 GMT

(SQL server 2005 express to SQL server 2005)

In this video tutorial we demonstrate how to transfer a localhost DotNetNuke installation to a live hosted website.

This covers how to transfer a localhost site which uses an SQL Server 2005 Express database to a hosting provider which uses an SQL Server 2005 database.

This method is much more reliable than the portal template and site wizard method for transferring data from a localhost installation to a live website as it does not suffer the same problems as the portal template method.

For example, this method transfers all data and modules, all registered users and security roles etc, the tab ids remain the same and it can easily transfer the data from a large site. The portal template method has problems with each of those elements.

Find and Replace SQL queries for DotNetNuke - 3 Videos

creativehost — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 08:44:00 GMT

(To fix problems after transferring a localhost database to a live website and other useful functions)

In this video tutorial we demonstrate using a Find and Replace SQL procedure to fix problems such as editing image urls after uploading a localhost installation to a live website.

This means that you can automatically adjust any html code within the text / html module across all of the pages in your DotNetNuke installation in a matter of seconds, rather than manually editing each page.

This method can also be used for editing words in the text / html module. For instance, suppose you wish to change your company name, you can apply these SQL techniques to search for the current company name and replace it with a new company name.

Other techniques can include searching for inline CSS code in the text/html module, such as font tags, and deleting all of the code so that all styling comes from the skin.css files.

Issue 21 - Site and Event Logs, Scheduler, FAQ, and Media Modules

creativehost — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 08:51:00 GMT

June 2007

Welcome to issue 21 of DNN Creative Magazine.

In this issue we demonstrate working with the site logs and event logs in DotNetNuke.

It is essential to correctly configure the logs to ensure they do not affect the performance of your DNN installation. We walk you through configuration and maintenance techniques and also demonstrate the scheduler and SQL tools in DotNetNuke.

Following this we cover the FAQ and media core modules.

This issue comes complete with 8 videos.

Tutorials:

	Site logs, Event logs and Scheduler (Viewing, Configuring, Reducing size and Preventative Maintenance) (3 videos - 34mins)
Core Modules:	DotNetNuke FAQ Module (2 videos – 22mins)
	DotNetNuke Media module (3 videos – 18mins)

View issue 21 to download all of the videos in one zip file

DotNetNuke Media module - 3 Videos

creativehost — Thu, 31 May 2007 14:15:00 GMT

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

The media module replaces the image module that was used in earlier versions of DotNetNuke and comes with extra functionality.

It enables you to easily display media files such as images, videos and play music.

According to the media modules spec, the module supports these formats:

Audio Interchange File Format (AIFF)
Audio Video Interleave (AVI)
Moving Pictures Expert Group (MPEG)
MP3 (Audio aspect of MPEG)
Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI)
QuickTime (MOV)
Real Video (RM, RAM)
Shockwave Flash (SWF)
Waveform (WAV)
Windows Media Formats (ASF, ASX,WMA,WMV)
and of course images

In this tutorial we demonstrate working with images, MP3s, WMVs, and flash files.

DotNetNuke FAQ Module - 2 Videos

creativehost — Thu, 31 May 2007 14:12:00 GMT

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

Displaying frequently asked questions on your website allows your visitors to quickly find the answers to common questions. This also has the added benefit of saving you time constantly answering the same support questions.

We walk you through step by step how to add FAQs and how to configure the display of the FAQs. This covers using templates, tokens, and creating your own CSS styles for styling the text and the layout of the FAQs.

DotNetNuke Site logs, Event logs, and Scheduler - 3 Videos

creativehost — Thu, 31 May 2007 14:04:00 GMT

In this video tutorial we demonstrate working with the site logs and event logs in DotNetNuke. We first of all demonstrate how to view the logs and we then progress onto how to manage the logs and prevent them from growing to a large size using the scheduler.

This is an essential configuration for all DotNetNuke portals because if you do not configure the logs correctly they can grow to such a large size that your hosting provider may shut down your site until you fix the problem.

The videos cover:

Video 1 – Site logs and event logs, viewing and configuration
Video 2 – Event logs maintenance
Video 3 – Automatically and manually deleting logs, fixing and preventing errors

Total Time Length: 34mins

Issue 20 - Installing DotNetNuke 4.5 and XHTML Compliance

creativehost — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:17:00 GMT

May 2007

Welcome to the twentieth issue of DNN Creative Magazine.

In this issue we demonstrate how to install DotNetNuke v4.5 to Windows XP Professional, Home Edition, and also how to install the source code.

We walk you through step by step how to configure a barebones installation of Windows before installing DotNetNuke as quite often this is the hardest part of installing DotNetNuke.

We also continue the XHTML compliance tutorials from issue 19 where we demonstrate further changes to enable an XHTML compliant DotNetNuke; we discuss these changes for both versions 4.4 and 4.5.

This issue comes complete with 9 videos.

Tutorials:

Skinning	How to install DotNetNuke 4.5 to Windows XP Pro with IIS (3 videos - 32min)
	How to install DotNetNuke to Windows XP Home (Using VWD) (2 videos - 19min)
	How to install DotNetNuke v4.5 Source Code to Windows XP Professional (2 videos – 15min)
	XHTML Compliant DotNetNuke 4.4 and 4.5 - part 2 (2 videos – 17min)

View issue 20 to download all of the videos in one zip file

Issue 19 - XHTML Compliant DotNetNuke 4.4 and Upgrading

creativehost — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:12:00 GMT

March 2007

Welcome to the nineteenth issue of DNN Creative Magazine.

In this issue we demonstrate how to configure the latest DotNetNuke v4.4 to produce XHTML compliant code.

We explore the new skinning features in DNN v4.4 looking at DOC TYPES and using DROPDOWNACTIONS.

We have also updated the Simple Red Leaf skin as well as the 'How to reduce and validate the default DotNetNuke CSS' article for v4.4.

In February we upgraded DNN Creative Magazine, so we have documented the steps taken and pitfalls to avoid when undertaking a large upgrade project in DotNetNuke.

Finally, we discuss software piracy and how it can affect the DotNetNuke community.

This issue comes complete with 4 videos.

Tutorials:

Skinning	XHTML Compliant DotNetNuke 4.4 (3 videos – 25min)
	How to select DOC TYPES in DotNetNuke 4.4 (1 video – 9min)
	How to fix the [DROPDOWNACTIONS] token bug in DotNetNuke 4.4.1
	Simple Red Leaf CSS Skin (Updated for DotNetNuke 4.4)
	Reducing the DotNetNuke CSS file sizes (Updated for DotNetNuke 4.4, creates valid CSS code)
	How to Upgrade DotNetNuke v3.x to v4.4.1
	Software Piracy - A Small Business Epidemic

View issue 19 to download all of the videos in one zip file

DNN Creative Magazine for DotNetNuke Web Designers
Covering DotNetNuke module video reviews, video tutorials, mp3 interviews, resources and web design tips for working with DotNetNuke.

How to install DotNetNuke 4.5 to Windows XP Professional (Using IIS) - 3 Videos

creativehost — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 09:19:00 GMT

In this video tutorial we demonstrate how to install DotNetNuke v4.5.1 to Windows XP Professional.

We walk you through how to configure and install the required programmes for installing DotNetNuke using a fresh installation of Windows XP Professional. Once we configure the programmes we demonstrate how to install DotNetNuke.

How to install DotNetNuke 4.5 to Windows XP Home (Using VWD) - 2 Videos

creativehost — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 09:14:00 GMT

In this video tutorial we demonstrate how to install DotNetNuke v4.5.1 to Windows XP Home Edition using Visual Web Developer Express.

We walk you through how to configure and install the required programmes for installing DotNetNuke using a fresh installation of Windows XP Home. Once we have setup and configured the required programmes we demonstrate how to install DotNetNuke.

How to install DotNetNuke v4.5 Source Code to Windows XP Professional - 2 Videos

creativehost — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 09:10:00 GMT

In this video tutorial we demonstrate how to install the DotNetNuke v4.5.1 source code using Windows XP Professional. Installing the source code version of DotNetNuke allows you to make changes to the core code of DotNetNuke.

For this tutorial you will need to install:

Internet Information Services (IIS)
ASP.NET 2.0 Framework
SQL Server 2005 or SQL Server Express 2005
Visual Studio 2005
Windows Updates

Note: The source code version of DotNetNuke will not work with Visual Web Developer Express 2005

XHTML Compliant DotNetNuke 4.4. and 4.5 part 2 - 2 Videos

creativehost — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 09:04:00 GMT

In this tutorial we continue the XHTML compliance tutorials from issue 19. Since the tutorials were released, a few additional code changes were discovered through discussions in the forum on DNN Creative, so, this tutorial outlines those additional changes.

In the issue 19 tutorials we used DotNetNuke v4.4, for this tutorial we use v4.5.1 and we outline any differences between the 2 versions.

We also demonstrate how to enable the account login module to become XHTML compliant, this involves editing the core code using Visual Studio 2005. We have created a separate tutorial so that you can learn how to install the DotNetNuke source code using Visual Studio 2005.

How to create an XHTML Compliant DotNetNuke 4.4 - 3 Videos

creativehost — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 03:04:00 GMT

DotNetNuke has always caused problems by generating non-compliant XHTML code, so even if your skin is fully XHTML compliant, your DotNetNuke portal will not pass the W3C XHTML validation tests because the core code generates non-compliant code.

In these 3 video tutorials we walk you through the steps needed to enable your DotNetNuke installation to become XHTML compliant. These steps will only work with the latest 4.4.x version of DotNetNuke.
How to create an XHTML Compliant DotNetNuke 4.4

How to select DOC TYPES in DotNetNuke 4.4.x - Video

creativehost — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 02:58:00 GMT

In the latest version of DotNetNuke 4.4 .x, a new function has been introduced which allows you to change the DOC TYPE of a document directly within a skin. This is essential for CSS skins.

The video covers:

How to switch DOC TYPES in DNN 4.4
Preparations
Viewing the current render mode
How to create a doctype.xml file
How DotNetNuke uses the doctype.xml file
Testing the new skin
Confirming standards compliance mode and quirks mode for the skins installed on the portal

Time Length: 9min
How to select DOC TYPES in DotNetNuke 4.4.x

How to fix the [DROPDOWNACTIONS] token bug in DotNetNuke 4.4.1

creativehost — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 02:51:00 GMT

In previous skinning tutorials, when working with pure CSS skins, we recommended to remove the Solpart Menu from a container and to use the [DROPDOWNACTIONS] token instead as it provides a performance benefit.

In the latest version of DotNetNuke 4.4.1 there is currently a bug with the [DROPDOWNACTIONS] token. There is however a simple fix ...
How to fix the [DROPDOWNACTIONS] token bug in DotNetNuke 4.4.1

Free DotNetNuke CSS Skin - 'Simple Red Leaf'

creativehost — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 02:47:00 GMT

(Updated March 2007 for DNN 4.4)

The aim of this skin is to provide a clean, simple, search engine friendly and accessible skin.

The layout is created using just CSS (no tables) and makes use of CSS for styling the fonts, menu etc.

The skin takes advantage of the features that CSS layout designs provide:

Accessibility, Flexibility, Print View, Search Engine Friendly, Small File Size, Browser Compatible, etc.

Reducing the DotNetNuke CSS file sizes

creativehost — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 02:46:00 GMT

(Updated March 2007 for DNN 4.4)

This tutorial outlines how you can reduce the overall size of your CSS files and therefore the page load time of your DotNetNuke portal by editing the CSS files.

It is possible to reduce the default.css file from 17K to 12K by using CSS shorthand techniques and editing the code so that it passes the W3C CSS Validation Test.

Example free CSS file included for download.
Reducing the DotNetNuke CSS file sizes

How to Upgrade DotNetNuke v3.x to v4.4.1

creativehost — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 02:37:00 GMT

This article outlines the steps taken to upgrade DNN Creative Magazine from v3.2.2 to v4.4.1. The upgrade process for DNN Creative Magazine was slightly more complicated than a standard upgrade because we were upgrading from a large corrupted version of v3.x to the latest 4.4.x.

We demonstrate the techniques for testing, upgrading modules and ensuring a successful DNN upgrade. Essential Reading.

How to Upgrade DotNetNuke v3.x to v4.4.1

Software Piracy - A Small Business Epidemic

creativehost — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:53:00 GMT

Are you aware of the licenses for your DotNetNuke modules and skins? You may be using a module or skin illegally without realising. This article highlights the typical licenses used in DNN along with how protecting a modules code can help to sustain the DotNetNuke development community for the future.

Software Piracy – A Small Business Epidemic

Issue 18 - DotNetNuke and Blogging

creativehost — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 03:38:26 GMT

February 2007

Welcome to the eighteenth of DNN Creative Magazine.

In this issue we explore in detail the core DotNetNuke blog module. We demonstrate the various configuration options available to you, as well as provide real world examples. Supporting the DotNetNuke blog module tutorial are articles covering: What is blogging, blog content and how to promote your blog.

Finally, we demonstrate how to improve a DotNetNuke module by examining the blog module and making changes to the core code. This will enable you to add additional functionality to the core modules.

This issue comes complete with 8 videos.

Tutorials:

Administrators	DotNetNuke Blog Module (8 videos - 82min)
	Blogging - What is a blog?
	Blog Promotion - ‘Blog and Ping’ what is it anyway?
	How to improve a DotNetNuke module (The Blog module)

View issue 18 to download all of the videos in one zip file

DotNetNuke Blog Module – 8 Videos

creativehost — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 10:44:08 GMT

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

We walk you through step by step, all of the various configuration options so that you get a full understanding of how the blog module works. We demonstrate the initial setup of the module, right through to configuring the module for members of staff to make blog posts. We then explore some of the advanced options where we configure the blog module so that usersA and usersB can only view certain blogs.

These 8 video tutorials walk you through step by step how to configure the blog module.

The videos cover:

Video 1 – Introduction, installation, setting the correct permissions
Video 2 – Creating a blog, configuring, creating a post
Video 3 – Creating multiple user blogs, child blogs
Video 4 – Adding and viewing posts, working with comments
Video 5 – RSS feeds, syndication
Video 6 – Blog configuration options
Video 7 - Applying the blog module configuration options to a real world example - part a
Video 8 - Applying the blog module configuration options to a real world example - part b

Total time length: 82mins
DotNetNuke Blog Module

Blogging - What is a blog?

creativehost — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 10:31:48 GMT

Information to help you get started blogging, from content, marketing, categories, RSS feeds and examples.

Blogging - What is a blog?

Blog Promotion - ‘Blog and Ping’ what is it anyway?

creativehost — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 10:15:24 GMT

How to promote your DotNetNuke blog using the blog directories and 'blog and ping'.

Blog Promotion - ‘Blog and Ping’

How to improve a DotNetNuke module (The Blog module)

creativehost — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:45:05 GMT

This article explains how to make changes to DotNetNuke modules varying their look-and-feel, as well as adding some fundamental behaviour. Explanation is done by example of the Blog module.

How to improve a DotNetNuke module (The Blog module)

DotNetNuke AD (Active Directory) Quick Fix

creativehost — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Created by Charles Stratton

This tutorial demonstrates how to make a quick change to the DotNetNuke Active Directory module without editing the core code.

Read More..

DNN Module Packager

creativehost — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Created by Chris Hambleton

The DNN Module Packager is a utility that creates a DotNetNuke manifest file and packages modules into a ZIP file for deployment to a DotNetNuke 3.x or DotNetNuke 4.x hosting site. You can edit the manifest file before packaging and also add any other files to the package that your module needs to function properly in a DotNetNuke environment. The DNN manifest file is simply an XML file that contains information about the Module, it's DNN-interface controls (like View, Edit, and Settings controls), and a listing of all the folders, files, and binaries needed by the module.

Read More..

DotNetNuke 4 - Module Development Guide

creativehost — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Created by Michael Washington

Information covering how to configure your module development environment and developing modules for DNN4.

Read More..

Issue 17 - DotNetNuke Portals

creativehost — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 08:45:19 GMT

January 2007

Welcome to the seventeenth issue of DNN Creative Magazine.

In this issue we cover working with portals in DotNetNuke. We begin with an introduction to multiple portals in DotNetNuke, starting from the basic concepts, right through to creating parent and child portals within a live DotNetNuke installation.

Following this, we help you to decide on the best portal type to use, with help of a portal considerations PDF mind map.

Once you have got to grips with portals, we introduce you to working with portal aliases and progress onto portal templates and the site wizard. These techniques are useful when installing portals and transferring a portal from a localhost installation to a live website.

Finally, we finish with administering and configuring portals as a Host Super User and demonstrate the variety of options you have available for configuring each portal within your DotNetNuke installation.

This issue comes complete with 7 videos.

Tutorials:

Administrators	DotNetNuke and Multiple Portals
	How to create DotNetNuke Portals (Parent and Child) (3 videos – 25min)
	Portal Considerations (When to use Multiple Portals / Parent / Child or create a new DotNetNuke installation)
	DotNetNuke Portal Aliases (1 video – 11min)
	DotNetNuke Portal Templates and the Site Wizard (1 video – 11min)
	Managing and Configuring Portals as a Host Super User (2 videos – 15min)

View issue 17 to download all of the videos in one zip file

Managing and Configuring Portals as a Host Super User - 2 Videos

creativehost — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 08:28:37 GMT

As a Host Super User you have a variety of configuration options available, ranging from assigning which modules are available to each portal, through to configuring the site log, disk space, and file types allowed, as well as many other options.

The videos walk you through each of these elements, covering:

Video 1 – Introduction, Deleting Portals, Module Management
Video 2 – Configuring Portals

Total Time Length: 15mins

Managing and Configuring Portals as a Host Super User

DotNetNuke Portal Templates and the Site Wizard - Video

creativehost — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 08:19:27 GMT

Portal Templates allow you to export a template of a DotNetNuke portal. A template includes the pages, modules, skins and containers used within the DotNetNuke portal.

Templates can be useful for:

Transferring data from one DotNetNuke installation to another
Creating default content for a portal

All of these elements are explained step by step in the video.

DotNetNuke Portal Templates and the Site Wizard

How to create DotNetNuke Portals (Parent and Child) - 3 Videos

creativehost — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 07:48:35 GMT

We walk you through the processes required for adding a portal to a live DotNetNuke website. This covers creating a parent portal using a domain and sub-domain name, as well as creating a child portal.

The videos cover:

Video 1 – Introduction, creating a parent portal
Video 2 – Administering and configuring the portals
Video 3 – Creating a sub-domain parent portal and a child portal

Total Time Length: 25mins

How to create DotNetNuke Portals (Parent and Child)

DotNetNuke and Multiple Portals

creativehost — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 07:40:06 GMT

The portal system in DotNetNuke is one of its most powerful features. In this article we outline how the DotNetNuke portal system works and how it can save you money on your hosting bills.

We cover:

Standard Hosting Method
DotNetNuke Multiple Portal Method
DotNetNuke Portals, Parent and Child
Administration of Portals
Host control: Premium modules, skins, disk space

DotNetNuke and Multiple Portals

DotNetNuke Portal Aliases - Video

creativehost — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Portal Alias is a very useful function in DotNetNuke. It allows you to point multiple domain names to the same portal. You can take advantage of the Portal Alias function when transferring a live DotNetNuke website to a localhost installation or vice versa, making it easy to test any changes to your website.

Portal Alias can also be used to convert a child portal into a parent portal with a unique domain name.

All of these elements are explained step by step in the video.

DotNetNuke Portal Aliases

DotNetNuke Portal Considerations

creativehost — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT

(When to use Multiple Portals / Parent / Child or create a new DotNetNuke installation)

To help you consider which type of portal you should create, or whether you should create a new DotNetNuke installation, we have created a PDF mind map diagram which you can download for free.

DotNetNuke Portal Considerations

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Issue 16 - Skinning Troubleshooting, Vendors, Banners and Affiliates

creativehost — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 06:53:00 GMT

December 2006

Welcome to the sixteenth issue of DNN Creative Magazine.

In this issue we cover troubleshooting techniques for skins. The techniques range from how to quickly find the CSS class that styles an element within your skin, through to live website CSS troubleshooting, in particular looking at Solpart menu and skin design layouts.

Instead of spending hours trying to fix a skin problem, you will be able to solve your problems in a matter of minutes using these techniques.

From skinning we move on to ways of making money with your DotNetNuke website. We outline the various methods you can use with a default installation of DotNetNuke for making money with DotNetNuke.

Following this we have created a detailed tutorial exploring the Vendors section of DotNetNuke 4.3 and 3.3. This covers working with Vendors, Banners and the Affiliates sections of DotNetNuke, along with applying the techniques that we discussed in the ‘How to make money from DotNetNuke’ tutorial.

This issue comes complete with 8 videos.

Tutorials:

Skinning	Troubleshooting DotNetNuke Skins (2 videos – 17min)
Administrators	Working with Vendors, Banners and Affiliates in DotNetNuke (6 videos – 61min)
Articles	How to make money from your DotNetNuke website

View issue 16 to download all of the videos in one zip file

Troubleshooting DotNetNuke skins - 2 Videos

creativehost — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 04:32:39 GMT

Techniques, tips and tricks to help you skinning in DotNetNuke. Layout, Solpart menu, CSS, class, id problems all solved with these easy troubleshooting techniques. Learn and get more from your DotNetNuke skins.

The videos cover:

Video 1 – Introduction, Edit CSS, troubleshooting
Video 2 – CSS layouts, images, id and classes and additional tips

Total Time Length: 17mins

Troubleshooting DotNetNuke Skins

Working with Vendors, Banners and Affiliates in DotNetNuke - 6 Videos

creativehost — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 04:24:24 GMT

Working with vendors, banner advertisements and affiliates in DotNetNuke. Learn how to configure DNN for banners, skyscrapers, text links, Google Adsense and script. Setup Cost Per click and Cost Per Impressions CPM.

These 6 video tutorials walk you through each of these elements step by step, as well as provide advanced techniques.

The videos cover:

Video 1 – Introduction to Vendors
Video 2 – Adding banner advertisements
Video 3 – Editing, Updating, Deleting, Configuring banners
Video 4 – Skinning and banners, banners module
Video 5 – Text, skyscraper, Google Adsense, configuration and display options
Video 6 – Vendors and Affiliates

Total Time Length: 61mins

Working with Vendors, Banners and Affiliates in DotNetNuke

How to make money from your DotNetNuke website

creativehost — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 03:48:57 GMT

How to monetize your DNN website. Discussing the advertising methods from pay-per-click, pay-per-lead, pay-per-sale. Through to the programmes available, such as Google Adsense, Affiliate Networks. As well as setting up subscriptions and a store. Using DotNetNuke can set each of these methods up for free.

How to make money from your DotNetNuke website

How to Install DotNetNuke 4.3.x with SQL Server

creativehost — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 04:49:42 GMT

After completing this tutorial, you will have successfully downloaded the Install zip file, created a website, created the database and login for MSSQL 2000, setup the web.config file to work with the database, added an object qualifier (a prefix for all of your table names in the DotNetNuke database), and set up the installation so that you can do multiple installs of DotNetNuke.

In short, you will have a running DotNetNuke website that is ready to build out.

How to Install DotNetNuke 4.3.x with SQL Server

User Settings (part 2) in DotNetNuke 4.3 and 3.3 – Video

creativehost — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 04:44:02 GMT

Additional options have been introduced in the latest DotNetNuke v4.3.5. In this video tutorial we demonstrate the new options available in the User Settings page.

Video contents:

Suppress Pager
Default profile visibility mode
Display Profile visibility
Display Manage Services

Time Length: 4mins

User Settings (part 2) in DotNetNuke 4.3 and 3.3

How to set up email in DotNetNuke - Video

creativehost — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 04:36:57 GMT

DotNetNuke takes advantage of email in various ways, for instance DotNetNuke sends an email whenever a user registers on a portal, the forum module sends an email if you have received replies to your posts etc. and it is also possible to send Newsletter emails to all of the registered users on your DotNetNuke portal.

All of these functions rely on you correctly configuring DotNetNuke to send emails, this video tutorial demonstrates how to setup and test the DotNetNuke email facilities.

Time Length: 5mins

How to set up email in DotNetNuke

How to send Newsletters in DotNetNuke - Video

creativehost — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 04:23:21 GMT

This video tutorial demonstrates how to use and configure the Newsletters module in DotNetNuke.

You can create your own HTML or Plain Text emails and select which users to send the email to. Messages can be personalized with the users’ details, and you also have the option to attach files to the emails.

Time Length: 9mins

How to send Newsletters in DotNetNuke

DotNetNuke Documents Module – 3 Videos

creativehost — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 04:16:40 GMT

In this video tutorial we demonstrate how to use the DotNetNuke Documents module for versions 4.3 and 3.3, including all of the new flexible configuration options.

The Documents module provides a list of links to documents which you can download. You can link to documents within your DotNetNuke portal, or you can enter a URL to a file on another website. Each of the documents can track and log the number of clicks / downloads.

These 3 video tutorials walk you through step by step how to configure all of the settings within the documents module.

The videos cover:

Video 1 – Introduction, adding documents, uploading files
Video 2 – The documents settings, uploading
Video 3 – Creating a category list, logs, editing, deleting, updating, permissions

Total Time Length: 21mins

Documents Module in DotNetNuke 4.3 and 3.3

Using XMod with Active Forums to select Avatars

creativehost — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMT

This tutorial explains how to enable registered users to customize their forum profile by selecting an avatar image from a selection of images stored in the portal files.

This is achieved by combining the ActiveForums module with the XMod Module. The tutorial outlines how we combined the two modules to work together.

Using XMod with Active Forums to select Avatars

Issue 15 - DotNetNuke 4.3 and 3.3 Installation, Email, Documents and User Settings

creativehost — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMT

November 2006

Welcome to the fifteenth issue of DNN Creative Magazine.

In this issue we cover one of the hardest elements of working with DotNetNuke, Installation.

We also explore setting up email and working with newsletters. Email setup is one of the first tasks you need to complete when configuring DotNetNuke because many elements within DotNetNuke make use of sending emails.

The User Settings tutorial has been expanded into part 2 to cover the new settings introduced in the latest DotNetNuke version 4.3.5.

The Documents core module is explored in depth demonstrating the latest 4.3 and 3.3 version. This is a really flexible module that most web designers will have a use for.

Finally, if you have the ActiveForums and XMod modules, we demonstrate how to integrate the two modules for selecting avatars.

This issue comes complete with 6 videos.

Tutorials:

Administrators	How to install DotNetNuke 4.3.x with SQL Server
	User Settings (part 2) in DotNetNuke 4.3 and 3.3 (1 video – 4min)
	How to set up email in DotNetNuke (1 video – 5min)
	How to send Newsletters in DotNetNuke (1 video – 9min)
Core Modules	Documents Module in DotNetNuke 4.3 and 3.3 (3 videos – 21min)
Advanced	Using XMod with Active Forums to select Avatars

View issue 15 to download all of the videos in one zip file

Issue 14 - DotNetNuke 4.3 and 3.3 New Admin, Security, and File Functions

creativehost — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 06:02:00 GMT

October 2006

Welcome to the fourteenth issue of DNN Creative Magazine.

In this issue we continue to explore the new functions in the latest 4.3 and 3.3 versions of DotNetNuke.

We explore the new security role functions, in particular the new RSVP feature and how to set up DotNetNuke to accept subscription payments.

The File Manager is explained in depth, covering the new secure folder system and how the security permissions interact with other core modules.

This is essential information for getting the most from your DotNetNuke website and really demonstrates the flexibility of DotNetNuke.

Finally, we finish with tutorials for two core modules, the announcements and contacts modules. We created a tutorial on the announcements module in issue 1, but this is a completely new tutorial for the latest DotNetNuke versions 4.3 and 3.3.

This issue comes complete with 10 videos.

Tutorials:

Administrators	Security Roles new features in DotNetNuke 4.3 and 3.3 (2 videos - 16min)
	How to set up DotNetNuke to accept subscription payments (1 video – 8min)
	The File Manager in DotNetNuke 4.3 and 3.3 (4 videos – 36min)
Core Modules	Announcements Module in DotNetNuke 4.3 and 3.3 (2 videos – 19min)
	Contacts Module in DotNetNuke 4.3 and 3.3 (1 video – 4min)

View issue 14 to download all of the videos in one zip file

How to set up DotNetNuke to accept subscription payments - video

creativehost — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMT

In this tutorial we demonstrate how to setup DotNetNuke to accept subscription payments using PayPal.

These features are built in to DotNetNuke, so you can set this up for free without having to make payments for additional ecommerce modules.

Using DotNetNuke’s subscription facilities, registered users can pay to access subscriber only content such as articles, ebooks, music and video downloads etc.

Time Length: 8mins

How to set up DotNetNuke to accept subscription payments

New Security Role Features in DotNetNuke 4.3 and 3.3 - 2 Videos

creativehost — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 10:25:24 GMT

In this tutorial we demonstrate the new features for working with the security roles in DotNetNuke versions 4.3 and 3.3.

DotNetNuke 4.3 / 3.3 provides new facilities for managing the security roles in your DotNetNuke portal more easily.

This tutorial demonstrates how to setup and use security role groups, how to use the new features for managing users in a security role, as well as working with the new RSVP code feature which allows users to automatically sign up to multiple security roles. (A great time saving device for users and administrators of your DNN portal).

The videos cover:

Video 1 – Security Roles new features, groups, managing users
Video 2 – Configuring the RSVP Security Role function

Total Time Length: 16mins

New Security Role Features in DotNetNuke 4.3 and 3.3

DotNetNuke File Manager - 4 Videos

creativehost — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 10:15:12 GMT

The File Manager allows the administrator to upload, edit and delete files in your DotNetNuke portal.

Each version of DotNetNuke has seen improvements to the File Manager, in this tutorial we look at the latest DotNetNuke version 4.3 / 3.3.

To get the most from your DotNetNuke portal it’s important to understand how the File Manager works and how it interacts with the core-modules. These videos take you through the File Manager step by step.

The videos cover:

Video 1 – Introduction, overview and differences
Video 2 – Working with files
Video 3 – Working with folders and synchronizing
Video 4 – Security Settings, Permissions and Folders

Total Time Length: 36mins

DotNetNuke File Manager

DotNetNuke Contacts Module - Video

creativehost — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 10:06:55 GMT

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

The contacts module displays a list of contacts. It is useful for providing a list of company contacts on your website as the email addresses are cloaked to prevent spambots from harvesting your email addresses.

Time Length: 4mins

DotNetNuke Contacts Module

DotNetNuke Announcements Module - 2 Videos

creativehost — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMT

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

Coding with and using the DotNetNuke Scheduler

creativehost — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 03:05:00 GMT

Created by Patrick J. Santry

This tutorial demonstrates how to code your own scheduler class for DotNetNuke. It also covers configuring the scheduler service and some options it provides.

Read More..

How to create a DotNetNuke Skin Object

creativehost — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Created by Patrick J. Santry

An article covering how to create a random image DotNetNuke Skin Object.

Read More..

Issue 13 – DotNetNuke 4.3 and 3.3 New Administrator Functions

creativehost — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 03:17:16 GMT

September Issue 13 Released

I am pleased to announce that issue 13 of DNN Creative Magazine has been released.

This is the year anniversary for the launch of DNN Creative Magazine. In one year we have created 145 video tutorials, with more videos in this issue!

In Issue 13 we explore some of the new functions that have been introduced in the latest 4.3 and 3.3 versions of DotNetNuke. In particular we focus on the new administration functions covering: Users, Accounts, Settings and Registration options. We continue the How to build a DotNetNuke website series and demonstrate how to create a customized registration page.

These are powerful new features that have been introduced into DotNetNuke which should enable you to speed up the administration tasks as well as easily create a customized DotNetNuke website suited to your own requirements.

The custom registration page is a flexible and time-saving tool which allows you to collect the exact data you require from your registered users, ranging from their personal contact details through to market research for your company.

This issue comes complete with 10 videos.

Tutorials:

Administrators	How to quickly edit Module Titles and Text in DotNetNuke 4.3 and 3.3 (1 video - 3 min)
	User Accounts new features in DotNetNuke 4.3 and 3.3 (1 video – 9min)
	User accounts and User Settings in DotNetNuke 4.3 and 3.3 (2 videos – 16min)
	Enforcing Terms and Conditions on User Registration in DotNetNuke 4.3 and 3.3
	How to Manage Profile Properties in User accounts for DotNetNuke 4.3 / 3.3 (Creating a custom registration page) (6 videos - 53 min) Watch the introduction video (3.9MB)

Downloads: To save you time, all of the videos for each issue are available as a single zip download from each issue page.

Download the videos from here:

Issue 13 - DotNetNuke 4.3 and 3.3 New Administrator Functions
Issue 12 - CSS Horizontal Menus and Google Adsense
Issue 11 - An in-depth look at Headings and Styling
Issue 10 - The DotNetNuke Skinning Toolkit
Issue 9 - Advanced Content Styling Techniques and CSS
Issue 8 - CSS for Styling and Layout in DotNetNuke
Issue 7 – Developing and enhancing skins
Issues 5 & 6 - Working with skins
Issue 4 – Installation Essentials
Issue 3 - The Really Simple Issue (RSS)
Issue 2 - A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words
Issue 1 - The World At Your Fingertips

If you have any suggestions for the magazine, or requests, please do not hesitate to contact me, this magazine is for you.

Many thanks,

Lee Sykes
DNN Creative Magazine

View Issue 13

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Creating a custom registration page with Manage Profile Properties - 6 Videos

creativehost — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 08:27:37 GMT

In this tutorial we demonstrate how to create a custom registration form for your DotNetNuke portal.

To create a customized registration form we use the Manage Profile Properties page within the User Accounts of a DotNetNuke portal. These settings are only available in the latest 4.3 and 3.3 versions of DotNetNuke.

In these 6 videos we demonstrate how you can customize the registration page and profile pages for a user. This covers selecting which form fields are visible, which are required to be filled in when registering, through to creating your own custom registration form where you can request any information you require from the users when they register with your website.

The videos cover:

Video 1 – Introduction and basic concepts
Video 2 – First configuration options and removing duplications
Video 3 – How to create a custom registration page
Video 4 – Adding first custom form fields
Video 5 – Adding further custom form fields
Video 6 – Creating custom drop down lists in the registration form and conclusion

Total Time Length: 53mins

View video 1 to watch an introduction to the tutorial (3.9MB)

Watch all videos: Creating a custom registration page with Manage Profile Properties

Enforcing Terms and Conditions on User Registration in DotNetNuke 4.3 and 3.3

creativehost — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 08:19:14 GMT

This tutorial outlines the steps for requesting a user to tick a check box to confirm that they agree to the website Terms and Conditions before they can complete their registration to your DotNetNuke portal.

Enforcing Terms and Conditions on User Registration in DotNetNuke 4.3 and 3.3

User Accounts and User Settings in DotNetNuke 4.3 and 3.3 - 2 Videos

creativehost — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 08:11:14 GMT

In these video tutorials we explain in detail configuring the User Settings page. This configures the view of the User Accounts page, as well as configuring further details for Login, Logout and Registration to a DotNetNuke portal.

The videos cover:

Video 1 – Configuring the User Settings Page
Video 2 – User Settings Advanced Functions

Total Time Length: 16mins

User Accounts and User Settings in DotNetNuke 4.3 and 3.3

User Accounts new features in DotNetNuke 4.3 and 3.3 - Video

creativehost — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 07:54:39 GMT

In this video tutorial we demonstrate working with the User Accounts of a DotNetNuke portal for versions 4.3 and 3.3.

DotNetNuke 4.3 / 3.3 provides new facilities for managing the users in your DotNetNuke portal more easily.

This tutorial provides you with the essential information to enable you to easily manage and administer the registered users on your DotNetNuke portal. Ranging from searching, viewing, filtering users, editing and deleting users, managing security roles and maintaining a user’s account.

Time Length: 9mins

User Accounts new features in DotNetNuke 4.3 and 3.3

How to Quickly Edit Module Titles and Text in DotNetNuke 3.3 and 4.3 - Video

creativehost — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 07:48:07 GMT

This free video tutorial demonstrates a new shortcut in versions 4.3 and 3.3 of DotNetNuke which enables you to quickly edit module titles and text in the Text / HTML module.

How to Quickly Edit Module Titles and Text in DotNetNuke 3.3 and 4.3

Issue 13 - DotNetNuke 4.3 and 3.3 New Administrator Functions

creativehost — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMT

September 2006

Welcome to the thirteenth issue of DNN Creative Magazine.

This is the year anniversary for the launch of DNN Creative Magazine. In one year we have created 145 video tutorials, with more videos in this issue!

This issue comes complete with 10 videos.

Tutorials:

Administrators	How to quickly edit Module Titles and Text in DotNetNuke 4.3 and 3.3 (1 video - 3 min)
	User Accounts new features in DotNetNuke 4.3 and 3.3 (1 video – 9min)
	User accounts and User Settings in DotNetNuke 4.3 and 3.3 (2 videos – 16min)
	Enforcing Terms and Conditions on User Registration in DotNetNuke 4.3 and 3.3
	How to Manage Profile Properties in User accounts for DotNetNuke 4.3 / 3.3 (Creating a custom registration page) (6 videos - 53 min) Watch the introduction video (3.9MB)

View issue 13 to download all of the videos in one zip file

$79 DotNetNuke Module and Subscription Competition

creativehost — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 08:28:36 GMT

Ventrian Systems yearly module subscription ($35) and a year subscription to DNN Creative ($44) to give away.

Simply login and fill out the survey. You will be automatically entered into the competition. Two winners will be selected at random at the end of the month, one for the Ventrian systems subscription and one for the DNN Creative subscription.

The closing date for the competition is 17:00 GMT on the 19th September 2006.

If you are already a subscriber to DNN Creative you will receive a year extension on your current subscription.

August competition winners

Congratulations to Val Lusis who has won a free subscription to DNN Creative Magazine and Jachin Crawford who the Speerio File Manager Pro Module.

Val achieved a high score of 148,710 on PacMan and Jachin achieved a high score of 797,734 on Tetris.

Stats: There are 145 videos on DNN Creative Magazine.
PS. Check out the Skinning Toolkit

Issue 12 – CSS Horizontal Menus and Google Adsense

creativehost — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 13:48:16 GMT

August Issue 12 Released

I am pleased to announce that issue 12 of DNN Creative Magazine has been released.

In this Issue we build on the previous skinning tutorials from issues 5 to 11.

We create horizontal CSS menus and demonstrate step by step creating 3 different horizontal CSS menus using the HouseMenu.

We provide an introduction to Google Adsense as an easy way to monetize your DotNetNuke websites. We demonstrate how you can use the CSS techniques developed over the previous issues to easily incorporate Google Adsense into DotNetNuke websites. This covers blending the ads with the text content of the page and easily placing the ads anywhere you require within the page.

This issue comes complete with 11 videos.

Tutorials:

CSS Menus	How to create Horizontal CSS menus in DotNetNuke using the HouseMenu (7 videos – 65mins) Watch the introduction video (3.8MB)
Google Adsense	Introduction to Google Adsense, how to easily monetize your website Incorporating Google Adsense into DotNetNuke Skins (4 videos – 33mins) Watch the introduction video (4.4MB)

Downloads: To save you time, all of the videos for each issue are available as a single zip download from each issue page.

Download the videos from here:

Issue 12 - CSS Horizontal Menus and Google Adsense
Issue 11 - An in-depth look at Headings and Styling
Issue 10 - The DotNetNuke Skinning Toolkit
Issue 9 - Advanced Content Styling Techniques and CSS
Issue 8 - CSS for Styling and Layout in DotNetNuke
Issue 7 – Developing and enhancing skins
Issues 5 & 6 - Working with skins
Issue 4 – Installation Essentials
Issue 3 - The Really Simple Issue (RSS)
Issue 2 - A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words
Issue 1 - The World At Your Fingertips

If you have any suggestions for the magazine, or requests, please do not hesitate to contact me, this magazine is for you.

Many thanks,

Lee Sykes
DNN Creative Magazine

View Issue 12

PS. Play PacMan to win a free subscription to DNN Creative Magazine or Tetris to win the File Manager Pro module ($199) from Speerio.

PPS. View the RSS feeds page, keep up to date with the latest information, or display our articles on your website using the DNN Creative Magazine RSS Feeds .

Quick Links:
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All Interviews
All Articles

Stats: There are now 145 videos on DNN Creative Magazine.

DotNetNuke® is a registered trademark of Perpetual Motion Interactive Systems Inc.

Issue 12 - CSS Horizontal Menus and Google Adsense

creativehost — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 04:36:00 GMT

August 2006

Welcome to the twelfth issue of DNN Creative Magazine.

In Issue 12 we are building on the previous skinning tutorials from issues 5 to 11.

We create horizontal CSS menus and demonstrate step by step creating 3 different horizontal CSS menus using the HouseMenu.

We provide an introduction to Google Adsense as an easy way to monetize your DotNetNuke websites. We demonstrate how you can use the CSS techniques developed over the previous issues to easily incorporate Google Adsense into DotNetNuke websites. This covers blending the ads with the text content of the page and easily placing the ads anywhere you require within the page.

This issue comes complete with 11 videos.

CSS Menus	How to create Horizontal CSS menus in DotNetNuke using the HouseMenu (7 videos – 65mins) Watch the introduction video (3.8MB)
Google Adsense	Introduction to Google Adsense, how to easily monetize your website Incorporating Google Adsense into DotNetNuke Skins (4 videos – 33mins) Watch the introduction video (4.4MB)

View issue 12 to download all of the videos in one zip file

Incorporating Google Adsense into DotNetNuke - 4 Videos

creativehost — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 04:10:26 GMT

In this tutorial we demonstrate how to incorporate Google Adsense into DotNetNuke websites.

In particular, the aim was to build a DotNetNuke website which would allow an administrator with little or no experience of DotNetNuke to:

Easily choose what type of Adsense ad they wish to display on the page, for example a square ad or banner ad
Easily choose the location on the page for the Adsense ad
and all of the Adsense ads need to blend within the text content of the page

In these 4 video tutorials we walk you through, step by step, how to integrate Google Adsense with DotNetNuke skins. We demonstrate how to incorporate Adsense into the Free Simple Red Leaf CSS skin. You can see an example of the Adsense skin in action by watching the introduction video below. The code is available for download with the videos.

The videos cover:

Video 1 – Introduction and demonstration
Video 2 – Skin setup and Google Adsense setup
Video 3 – Adding Adsense square ads and blending with the text
Video 4 – Adsense coloured containers and banner ads

Total Time Length: 33mins

View video 1 to watch an introduction to the tutorial (4.4MB)

Watch all videos: Incorporating Google Adsense into DotNetNuke

Introduction to Google Adsense, how to easily monetize your website

creativehost — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 04:01:39 GMT

In this article we give you an introduction to Google Adsense and provide some tips and resources for getting the most from Adsense on your websites. These tips will help you to improve your click-through-rate (CTR) and therefore your Adsense earnings.

Introduction to Google Adsense, how to easily monetize your website

Horizontal CSS menus in DotNetNuke using the HouseMenu - 7 Videos

creativehost — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 03:54:03 GMT

In this tutorial we demonstrate how to create 3 horizontal CSS menus using the HouseMenu created by Tim Rolands from the House of Nuke.

We walk you through step by step, editing the free Simple Red Leaf CSS skin, and convert it to use horizontal menus. All of the skin code is available for download with the videos.

The menus

We explain how to create a:

Single horizontal menu that just displays the root items of the menu

Horizontal menu with a sub menu

Horizontal menu that uses images for the buttons with a sub menu

The videos cover:

Video 1 – Introduction and demonstration
Video 2 – Creating the layout initial configuration for a horizontal CSS menu
Video 3 – Styling the horizontal root menu
Video 4 – Configuring the horizontal sub menu
Video 5 – Styling the sub-menu and setting up for all root menu items
Video 6 – Pros and Cons, Creating a submenu using images to create a button effect
Video 7 – Styling the image menu

Total Time Length: 65mins

View video 1 to watch an introduction to the tutorial (3.8MB)

Watch all videos: Creating Horizontal CSS menus in DotNetNuke using the HouseMenu

$243 DotNetNuke Competition Prizes

creativehost — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 06:33:47 GMT

Speerio File Manager Pro Module ($199) and a Year Subscription to DNN Creative ($44) for the Flash Game Competition Giveaway.

This month Speerio have kindly donated their File Manager Pro Module ($199) as a prize to DNN Creative.

Achieve the top score playing either Tetris (for the File Manager Pro module from Speerio) or PacMan (for the DNN Creative year subscription) and enter your DNN Creative username into the scoreboard. The top score at the end of the month wins.

The closing date for the competition is 17:00 GMT on the 17th August 2006.

If you are already a subscriber to DNN Creative you will receive a year extension on your current subscription.

No cash alternative is provided

Please make sure you are registered on DNN Creative with a valid email as we will use your username and email address to contact you if you win the competition.

July competition winners

Congratulations to Tony Nguyen who has won a free subscription to DNN Creative Magazine and Simon Mason who won a Gold Subscription to Smart-Thinker.

Tony achieved a high score of 137,660 on PacMan and Simon achieved a high score of 5,875 on Snake.

Hope you enjoy the games!

Stats: There are 134 videos on DNN Creative Magazine.
PS. Check out the Skinning Toolkit

Incorporating sIFR (Scalable Inman Flash Replacement) with DotNetNuke skins - 7 Videos

creativehost — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT

How many times have you wanted to use a font other than the generic fonts that we are forced to use for web pages?

This video tutorial (54 mins) demonstrates a technique which allows you to use any font you require for your text headings.

The user does not need the font installed on their machine.

Some designers use the technique of using images for their headings just so that they can incorporate different fonts into their designs. The problem with this is that you need to create a new image for every single title that you wish to create. This is a chore and defeats the object of using a dynamic content management system such as DotNetNuke.

Welcome to sIFR (Scalable Inman Flash Replacement). sIFR has been around for a while now, but there are minimal DotNetNuke sites implementing this technique. Using sIFR can give your website the extra design edge and help you to move away from the generic DotNetNuke designs that you tend to see.

Issue 11 - An in-depth look at Headings and Styling

creativehost — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT

July 2006

Welcome to the eleventh issue of DNN Creative Magazine.

For issue 11 we take an in-depth look into the use of headings within DotNetNuke websites.

As an introduction to headings we have created a 40 page PDF which analyses various professional websites for the best practice use of headings and semantic code within a web page. We then offer suggestions on how you can implement these practices within your own DotNetNuke websites.

Following this we have created a detailed series of videos which explore sIFR (Scalable Inman Flash Replacement). sIFR allows you to style the titles within a DotNetNuke portal using any font that you require. This is a very powerful technique which can completely transform the look of your skin designs.

This issue comes complete with 7 videos and a 40 page PDF.

Techniques

Semantic Code and Header Tags in DotNetNuke Skins
(40 page PDF)

sIFR and DotNetNuke – Video Tutorial
(7 videos – 54mins)

Watch the introduction video (2.9MB)

Issue 11 – An in-depth look at Headings and Styling in DotNetNuke

creativehost — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT

July Issue 11 Released

I am pleased to announce that issue 11 of DNN Creative Magazine has been released.

In this issue we take an in-depth look into the use of headings within DotNetNuke websites.

As an introduction to headings we have created a 40 page PDF which analyses various professional websites for the best practice use of headings and semantic code within a web page. We then offer suggestions on how you can implement these practices within your own DotNetNuke websites.

Following this we have created a detailed series of videos which explore sIFR (Scalable Inman Flash Replacement). sIFR allows you to style the titles within a DotNetNuke portal using any font that you require. This is a very powerful technique which can completely transform the look of your skin designs.

This issue comes complete with 7 videos and a 40 page PDF.

Tutorials:

Skinning

Semantic Code and Header Tags in DotNetNuke Skins (40 page PDF)

sIFR and DotNetNuke – Video Tutorial
(7 videos – 54mins)

Watch the introduction video (2.9MB)

Support the Magazine

Thank you to all of you who have contributed to the magazine with your DotNetNuke news, articles, information and words of encouragement, it is really appreciated. Please help me to continue this work by subscribing to the magazine.

Downloads: To save you time, all of the videos for each issue are available as a single zip download from each issue page.

Download the videos from here:

Issue 11 - An in-depth look at Headings and Styling
Issue 10 - The DotNetNuke Skinning Toolkit
Issue 9 - Advanced Content Styling Techniques and CSS
Issue 8 - CSS for Styling and Layout in DotNetNuke
Issue 7 – Developing and enhancing skins
Issues 5 & 6 - Working with skins
Issue 4 – Installation Essentials
Issue 3 - The Really Simple Issue (RSS)
Issue 2 - A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words
Issue 1 - The World At Your Fingertips

If you have any suggestions for the magazine, or requests, please do not hesitate to contact me, this magazine is for you.

Many thanks,

Lee Sykes
DNN Creative Magazine

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PS. Play PacMan to win a free subscription to DNN Creative Magazine or Snake to win a 8+ modules from Smart-Thinker.

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Stats: There are now 134 videos on DNN Creative Magazine.

DotNetNuke® is a registered trademark of Perpetual Motion Interactive Systems Inc.

Semantic code and header tags within DotNetNuke skins

creativehost — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT

This tutorial discusses the use of header tags and semantic code within DotNetNuke skins.

Using header tags can increase accessibility, enabling for instance speech browsers to understand the content of your pages, as well as the added benefit of enabling search engines to easily index your content. Header tags allow search engines to identify the topic of your website page, which should improve your search results.

The overall theme here is to allow various browser types / search engines to easily understand and interpret the content within your website pages and to create semantic code.

We analyze 5 pro websites for their design techniques and then apply these techniques to a DotNetNuke skin.

This tutorial is available as a 40 page PDF book.

DotNetNuke Competition for 8+ Smart-Thinker Modules and DNN Creative Subscription

creativehost — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 09:46:48 GMT

Free Gold Subscription - 8+ modules from Smart-Thinker ($45) and a free Subscription to DNN Creative Magazine ($44) for this months Flash Game Competition Giveaway.

This month Smart-Thinker have kindly donated a Gold Subscription ($45) as a prize to DNN Creative.

Achieve the top score playing either Snake (for 8+ modules from Smart-Thinker) or PacMan (for DNN Creative subscription) and enter your DNN Creative username into the scoreboard. The top score at the end of the month wins.

The closing date for the competition is 17:00 GMT on the 18th July 2006.

If you are already a subscriber to DNN Creative you will receive a year extension on your current subscription.

No cash alternative is provided

Please make sure you are registered on DNN Creative with a valid email as we will use your username and email address to contact you if you win the competition.

June competition winners

Congratulations to Jasimausi who has won a free subscription to DNN Creative Magazine and Doctus who has won the NukeDk module from Bi4ce.

Jasimausi achieved a high score of 85,000 on PacMan and Doctus achieved a high score of 167,210 on Invaders.

Hope you enjoy the games!

Stats: There are 127 videos on DNN Creative Magazine.

PS. Check out the Skinning Toolkit

Issue 10 - The DotNetNuke Skinning Toolkit

creativehost — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 04:22:00 GMT

June 2006

Welcome to the tenth issue of DNN Creative Magazine.

This is a completely free issue. For issue 10 we have created a completely separate DotNetNuke Skinning Resource, the DotNetNuke Skinning Toolkit.

This is a 98 page resource which demonstrates all of the skin classes within DotNetNuke so that you can easily view, search and learn how to style the various elements within a DotNetNuke skin.

This is a really useful reference tool for beginner and advanced DotNetNuke skin designers.

Following the research into the various DotNetNuke classes we have also outlined in further articles how you can reduce the CSS code required for a DotNetNuke skin, as well as tips for avoiding un-explained / un-wanted styling appearing in your DotNetNuke skins.

Techniques

The DotNetNuke Skinning Toolkit
(98 pages)

Reducing the DotNetNuke CSS file sizes

Introduction to CSS and inheritance in DotNetNuke

DNN Creative Magazine for DotNetNuke Web Designers
Covering DotNetNuke module video reviews, video tutorials, mp3 interviews, resources and web design tips for working with DotNetNuke.

In ten issues we have created 127 videos and 5 MP3 Interviews!

Free Issue 10 – Skinning Toolkit - DNN Creative Magazine

creativehost — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT

June Issue 10 Released

I am pleased to announce that issue 10 of DNN Creative Magazine has been released.

This is a completely free issue. For issue 10 we have created a completely separate DotNetNuke Skinning Resource, the DotNetNuke Skinning Toolkit.

This is a 98 page resource which demonstrates all of the skin classes within DotNetNuke so that you can easily view, search and learn how to style the various elements within a DotNetNuke skin.

This is a really useful reference tool for beginner and advanced DotNetNuke skin designers.

Following the research into the various DotNetNuke classes we have also outlined in further articles how you can reduce the CSS code required for a DotNetNuke skin, as well as tips for avoiding un-explained / un-wanted styling appearing in your DotNetNuke skins.

Tutorials:

The DotNetNuke Skinning Toolkit
(98 pages)

Reducing the DotNetNuke CSS file sizes

Introduction to CSS and inheritance in DotNetNuke

Downloads: To save you time, all of the videos for each issue are available as a single zip download from each issue page.

Download the videos from here:
Issue 9 - Advanced Content Styling Techniques and CSS
Issue 8 - CSS for Styling and Layout in DotNetNuke
Issue 7 – Developing and enhancing skins
Issues 5 & 6 - Working with skins
Issue 4 – Installation Essentials
Issue 3 - The Really Simple Issue (RSS)
Issue 2 - A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words
Issue 1 - The World At Your Fingertips

If you have any suggestions for the magazine, or requests, please do not hesitate to contact me, this magazine is for you.

Many thanks,

Lee Sykes
DNN Creative Magazine

View Issue 10

PS. Play PacMan to win a free subscription to DNN Creative Magazine or play Invaders to win the NukeDk module by Bi4ce ($69).

PPS. View the RSS feeds page, keep up to date with the latest information, or display our articles on your website using the DNN Creative Magazine RSS Feeds .

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Stats: There are 127 videos on DNN Creative Magazine.

DotNetNuke® is a registered trademark of Perpetual Motion Interactive Systems Inc.

DotNetNuke Skinning Toolkit

creativehost — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT

The Free DotNetNuke Skinning Toolkit is an additional resource website that has been created by DNN Creative Magazine as issue 10 of the magazine.

The 98 page Skinning Toolkit demonstrates all of the skin classes within DotNetNuke so that you can easily view, search and learn how to style the various elements within a DotNetNuke skin.

In particular learn how to style the Solpart Menu, TreeMenu, Module Settings Menu, FileManager, Wizard, Main DNN classes (breadcrumbs, login links etc.)

Introduction to CSS and inheritance in DotNetNuke skins

creativehost — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT

One of the regular problems skin designers come across when creating their own skins is un-explained styles appearing in their designs.

This tutorial explains the various CSS files that are used within DotNetNuke and how inheritance works between each of the CSS files for styling your DotNetNuke skins.

Once you understand inheritance you can reduce the amount of code required to create a DNN skin and therefore decrease the load time of a page.

Free example CSS files are included for download.

DotNetNuke Skinning Toolkit

creativehost — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 05:13:00 GMT

Created by Lee Sykes

98 page documentation which describes all of the DotNetNuke CSS classes that are used in DNN skins. Each DotNetNuke class is presented with an image and the various styling options available through CSS. Essential Reading for learning DNN skinning.

Skinning Toolkit

DotNetNuke Competition for Bi4ce Nukedk module and DNN Creative Subscription

creativehost — Fri, 19 May 2006 05:19:44 GMT

Nukedk module from Bi4ce ($69) and a free Subscription to DNN Creative ($39) for this months Flash Game Competition Giveaway.

Another game competition to take you away from work ;-) …

This month Bi4ce have kindly donated their Nukedk module as a prize to DNN Creative.

Achieve the top score playing either Invaders (for Nukedk) or PacMan (for DNN Creative subscription) and enter your DNN Creative username into the scoreboard. The top score at the end of the month wins.

The closing date for the competition is 17:00 GMT on the 19th June 2006

If you are already a subscriber to DNN Creative you will receive a year extension on your current subscription.

No cash alternative is provided

Please make sure you are registered on DNN Creative with a valid email as we will use your username and email address to contact you if you win the competition.

May competition winners

Congratulations to Thomas Groman and Simon Mason who have won a free year subscription to DNN Creative Magazine.

Competition was fierce on the flash game scoreboards:

Thomas achieved a high score of 227,710 on Asteroids and Simon achieved a high score of 140,050 on PacMan.

Hope you enjoy the games!

PS. We have updated the main tutorials page to improve the navigation of the site. You can now view all of the tutorials as a quick list.

Issue 9 - Advanced Content Styling Techniques and CSS

creativehost — Fri, 05 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT

May Issue 9 Released

I am pleased to announce that issue 9 of DNN Creative Magazine has been released.

This issue continues the development of CSS, from skin design to adding content and builds on the previous tutorials in issue 8.

Within the How to build a website series using DotNetNuke, we continue adding content to the website. This looks at basic techniques through to advanced powerful styling options using the FCKEditor and CSS.

Following the CSS skinning tutorials, this month we explore how to create pure CSS containers. Alongside this we have also released an updated version of the free ‘Simple Red Leaf’ CSS skin, which is completely valid to W3C standards.

We also uncover the SolPartMenu and provide some quick tips for setting up the menu with your skins.

Finally, for all of the beginners to DotNetNuke we have updated, expanded and improved the content of the free DotNetNuke Quick Start Guide

This issue comes complete with 16 video tutorials.

Tutorials:

Beginners Guides

DotNetNuke Quick Start Guide - Video Tutorial (Updated) - Free
(3 videos - 40min)

Adding Content

Styling and formatting (part 2) – Text/HTML module and FCKEditor
(9 videos - 69min) --> (watch the introduction video) (10.8MB)

Skinning

How to create CSS containers in DotNetNuke
(4 videos - 35min) --> (watch the introduction video) (2.7MB)

The SolPartMenu uncovered - Free

Free Skin:

Simple Red Leaf – DotNetNuke CSS Skin - Free
(Updated version 1.2 released)

Downloads: To save you time, all of the videos for each issue are available as a single zip download from each issue page.

If you have any suggestions for the magazine, or requests, please do not hesitate to contact me, this magazine is for you.

Many thanks,

Lee Sykes
DNN Creative Magazine

View Issue 9

PS. Play PacMan and Asteroids to win a free subscription to DNN Creative Magazine.

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Stats: There are now 127 videos on DNN Creative Magazine.

DotNetNuke® is a registered trademark of Perpetual Motion Interactive Systems Inc.

Issue 9 - Advanced Content Styling Techniques and CSS

creativehost — Wed, 03 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT

May 2006

Welcome to the ninth issue of DNN Creative Magazine.

This issue continues the development of CSS, from skin design to adding content and builds on the previous tutorials in issue 8.

Within the How to build a website series using DotNetNuke®, we continue adding content to the website. This looks at basic techniques through to advanced powerful styling options using the FCKEditor and CSS.

Following the CSS skinning tutorials, this month we explore how to create pure CSS containers. Alongside this we have also released an updated version of the free ‘Simple Red Leaf’ CSS skin, which is completely valid to W3C standards.

We also uncover the SolPartMenu and provide some quick tips for setting up the menu with your skins.

Finally, for all of the beginners to DotNetNuke, we have updated, expanded and improved the content of the free DotNetNuke Quick Start Guide.

This issue comes complete with 16 video tutorials.

The CSS container and styling techniques outlined here are compatible with both tables and CSS based skins.

Check out the introduction videos below.

Styling text using CSS and the FCKEditor

Techniques

Beginners Guides

DotNetNuke Quick Start Guide - Video Tutorial (Updated) - Free
(3 videos - 40min)

Adding Content

Styling and formatting (part 2) – Text/HTML module and FCKEditor
(9 videos - 69min) --> (watch the introduction video) (10.8MB)

Skinning

How to create CSS containers in DotNetNuke
(4 videos - 35min) --> (watch the introduction video) (2.7MB)

The SolPartMenu uncovered - Free

Free Skin

Simple Red Leaf – DotNetNuke CSS Skin - Free
(Updated, version 1.2 released)

Subscribers: Go to the main Issue 9 page to download all of the videos from a single zip file

DNN Creative Magazine for DotNetNuke® Web Designers
Covering DotNetNuke module video reviews, video tutorials, mp3 interviews, resources and web design tips for working with DotNetNuke.

In nine issues we have created 127 videos and 5 MP3 Interviews!

How to create CSS containers in DotNetNuke - 4 Video Tutorials

creativehost — Tue, 02 May 2006 08:16:04 GMT

This tutorial is a step by step guide covering how to create the free ‘Simple Red Leaf’ pure CSS layout containers

You can view the skin live here: http://skins.dnncreative.com

The containers are created using just CSS (no tables) and make use of CSS for the layout and styling the titles.

The tutorial consists of 4 videos detailing how to create CSS containers for DotNetNuke using Visual Web Developer Express Edition.

The videos cover:

Video 1 – Introduction, demonstration of containers
Video 2 – Preparations, first CSS container, the transparent containers
Video 3 – Boxed containers, ids and classes with containers
Video 4 – Finishing touches, spacing, testing, fixing with hacks and completion of containers

Total Time Length: 34min 41secs

View video 1 to watch an introduction to the tutorial. (2.7MB)

The SolPart Menu Uncovered

creativehost — Tue, 02 May 2006 07:52:04 GMT

Contrary to popular knowledge, the SolPartMenu provides full capabilities for options including root menus, child menus, vertical displayed menus and more. Knowing these flexibilities exist leads the designer into better and more adaptable website skins, as well as more robust and friendly navigation systems not ordinarily realized by most DNN users.

This article provides a deeper insight, as well as a few suggestions into the standard, yet not so well known, attributes of the SolPartMenu Skin Object.

Styling and formatting (part 2) – Text/HTML module and FCKEditor – part 12 - 9 Video Tutorials

creativehost — Tue, 02 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT

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.

To see this in action and for a more detailed explanation, view:
Video 1 – Introductions and Examples (10.8MB)

The videos cover:

Video 1 – Introduction and Examples
Video 2 – Keyword Research, Text/HTML module, FileManager and images
Video 3 – Adding content, working with containers, quick tips, completion of Home page
Video 4 – Introduction to the Portfolio page
Video 5 – Setting the first portfolio properties in the skin.css file
Video 6 – Creating portfolio items for the right side
Video 7 – Grouping classes, completing all portfolio items, adding styles to FCKEditor
Video 8 – Wrapping problems and solutions
Video 9 – Finishing touches to the portfolio page

Total Time Length: 68min 46secs

DotNetNuke Quick Start Guide - 3 Video Tutorials

creativehost — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Version 2 released May 2006
Version 1 created August 2005

These free video tutorials are for beginners to DotNetNuke. They give you a quick overview of DNN with just enough information to get you going, without becoming lost in the full details.

These videos provides a foundation for getting started with DotNetNuke and will lead onto the other tutorials which provide more detailed explanations.

The DNN Quick Start Guide videos cover:

How to secure your DotNetNuke portal
Changing the passwords of the admin and host accounts
Explanation of the admin edit area, content panes and modules
Deleting modules from the Home Page
Inserting two Text / HTML modules to the page
Using the Text / HTML module to add text and images
Using the links module, adding links to the page
How to preview the DotNetNuke website
Using the image module
Changing the look of a DotNetNuke portal
Using Containers: Removing containers
How to change a container
How to change the skins for a DotNetNuke portal
How to change and upload a new logo
How to add pages
How to add sub menu and sub sub menu items
How to move modules around the page

Total Time Length: 40min 17secs

DotNetNuke Competition for 2x one year subscriptions to DNN Creative Magazine

creativehost — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMT

DotNetNuke Subscription Flash Game Competition Giveaway

Two free subscriptions for DNN Creative Magazine to give away. Achieve the top score playing either PacMan or Asteroids and enter your DNN Creative username into the scoreboard. The top score at the end of the month wins a free year subscription.

One subscription is provided for the top score on PacMan and one subscription is provided for the top score on Asteroids. The closing date for the competition is 17:00 GMT on the 18th May 2006.

If you are already a subscriber to DNN Creative you will receive a year extension on your current subscription.

No cash alternative is provided

Please make sure you are registered on DNN Creative with a valid email as we will use your username and email address to contact you if you win the competition.

Issue 8 – CSS for Styling and Layout in DotNetNuke

creativehost — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMT

April Issue 8 Released

I am pleased to announce that issue 8 of DNN Creative Magazine has been released.

This issue is a special issue because we have now broken the 100 video tutorial mark. In this issue we have created 16 video tutorials which brings the total to 112 DotNetNuke video tutorials!

This issue focuses on CSS from skin design to adding content. It builds on the previous tutorials from issues 5-7.

Following the release of the free pure CSS ‘Simple Red Leaf’ skin we responded to the demand for a CSS skinning tutorial. We have created nine videos which walk you through the process of creating the ‘Simple Red Leaf’ skin. The tutorial demonstrates all of the details from layout to menu design, all created with CSS and no tables.

Continuing the How to build a website series using DotNetNuke we explore adding content to your website. This includes an eight video tutorial which covers styling your content in the Text/HTML module using CSS and calling those styles from the FCKEditor.

This is a very powerful way of adding and laying out content, minimising code and making advanced techniques easily available to your website administrators without any specialist knowledge required.

In addition to the videos we also explain bad practices to avoid when working with the Text/HTML module.

Rounding off this issue we are privileged to interview Tim O’Brien covering CSS skinning and validation. Tim has made DotNetNuke history creating the first DNN website that completely validates to W3C standards.

This issue comes complete with 16 video tutorials.

Tutorials:

Adding Content

How to install the FCKEditor - Video Tutorial - Free
(7min)

Bad Practices when working with the Text / HTML module - Free

Styling and formatting in the Text/HTML module using the skin.css file and the FCKEditor
(6 videos - 61min)

Skinning

How to create a pure CSS skin
(9 videos - 79min)

Interview:
How did they build …? www.obrienit.se
Looking at DotNetNuke CSS skinning and validation with Tim O’Brien - Free

Website enhancements:

Downloads: To save you time, all of the videos for each issue are available as a single zip download from each issue page.

Download the videos from here:
Issue 8 - CSS for Styling and Layout in DotNetNuke
Issue 7 – Developing and enhancing skins
Issues 5 & 6 - Working with skins
Issue 4 – Installation Essentials
Issue 3 - The Really Simple Issue (RSS)
Issue 2 - A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words
Issue 1 - The World At Your Fingertips

If you have any suggestions for the magazine, or requests, please do not hesitate to contact me, this magazine is for you.

Many thanks,

Lee Sykes
DNN Creative Magazine

View Issue 8

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Tim O’Brien CSS Skin Design and Validation Interview

creativehost — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 10:31:39 GMT

This is part of the How did they build it …? series of interviews.

This is an email interview with Tim O’Brien from O’Brien IT who has created http://www.obrienit.se

This is an interesting website because it uses CSS for the layout of the website, rather than tables. At present, there are not many DotNetNuke websites that use CSS for the layout on commercial websites, so this is a particularly interesting website.

Even more interesting is that this site fully validates to the W3C standards. This is the first DNN site that I have come across that fully validates

Issue 8 - CSS for Styling and Layout in DotNetNuke

creativehost — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMT

April 2006

Welcome to the eighth issue of DNN Creative Magazine.

In this issue we have created 16 video tutorials!

This issue focuses on CSS from skin design to adding content. It builds on the previous tutorials from issues 5-7.

Following the release of the free pure CSS ‘Simple Red Leaf’ skin we responded to the demand for a CSS skinning tutorial. We have created nine videos which walk you through the process of creating the ‘Simple Red Leaf’ skin. The tutorial demonstrates all of the details from layout to menu design, all created with CSS and no tables.

Continuing the How to build a website series using DotNetNuke® we explore adding content to your website. This includes an eight video tutorial which covers styling your content in the Text/HTML module using CSS and calling those styles from the FCKEditor.

This is a very powerful way of adding and laying out content, minimising code and making advanced techniques easily available to your website administrators without any specialist knowledge required.

In addition to the videos we also explain bad practices to avoid when working with the Text/HTML module.

Rounding off this issue we are privileged to interview Tim O’Brien covering CSS skinning and validation. Tim has made DotNetNuke history creating the first DNN website that completely validates to W3C standards.

Techniques

Adding Content

How to install the FCKEditor - Video Tutorial - Free
(7min)

Bad Practices when working with the Text / HTML module - Free

Styling and formatting in the Text/HTML module using the skin.css file and the FCKEditor
(6 videos - 61min)

Skinning

How to create a pure CSS skin
(9 videos - 79min)

Interview

How did they build …? www.obrienit.se, looking at DotNetNuke CSS skinning and validation with Tim O’Brien - Free

Subscribers: Go to the main Issue 8 page to download all of the videos from a single zip file

DNN Creative Magazine for DotNetNuke® Web Designers
Covering DotNetNuke module video reviews, video tutorials, mp3 interviews, resources and web design tips for working with DotNetNuke.

In eight issues we have created 112 videos and 5 MP3 Interviews!

Bad Practices when working with the Text / HTML module

creativehost — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMT

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.

Styling and formatting in the Text/HTML module - part 11 - 8 video tutorials

creativehost — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMT

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...

How to create a pure CSS skin in DotNetNuke - 9 Video Tutorials

creativehost — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMT

This tutorial is a step by step guide for how to create the free ‘Simple Red Leaf’ pure CSS layout skin.

You can view the skin live here: http://skins.dnncreative.com

The layout is created using just CSS (no tables) and makes use of CSS for styling the fonts, menu etc.

The tutorial consists of 9 videos detailing how to create a CSS skin for DotNetNuke using Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition.

The videos cover:

Video 1 – Introduction, Preparations, Explanations
Video 2 – Setting up the layout skeleton of the CSS skin
Video 3 – Viewing the initial layout and setting the DOC Type
Video 4 – Setting first properties in the skin.css file
Video 5 – Setting up the layout of the skin using CSS
Video 6 – Finishing touches to the CSS skin layout
Video 7 – Styling the HouseMenu
Video 8 – Testing in browsers and fixing with hacks
Video 9 – Viewing, finishing touches, completion of CSS skin

Total Time Length: 78min 44secs

DotNetNuke Skinning Dynamic Reference

creativehost — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 08:26:00 GMT

Created by Vasilis Terzopoulos

This is a dynamic reference of DotNetNuke Skin Objects and Container Objects, a useful quick reference tool providing the DotNetNuke Skinning documentation in an easy to read format.

Read More..

How to install the FCKEditor - Video Tutorial

creativehost — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMT

This free video tutorial demonstrates how to install the FCKEditor. This editor can be used to replace the FreeTextBox editor that comes as standard with DotNetNuke.

The FCKEditor is a WYSIWYG text editor that allows you to add text and image content to your modules. The main module that you will use with the FCKEditor is the Text/HTML module.

I personally always replace the FreeTextBox editor with the FCKEditor as I find the FCKEditor to be more stable and reliable than the FreeTextBox editor. - Highly Recommended.

Automating Visual Studio 2005 for DNN Module Development

creativehost — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 05:18:00 GMT

Created by Doug Vogel

Tired of always running those SQL scripts to register your new DotNetNuke Modules? Here's how to automatically do those tasks, and a lot more. For Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition or above.

Read More..

Issue 7 – Developing and enhancing skins

creativehost — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 08:09:00 GMT

March Issue 7 Released

I am pleased to announce that issue 7 of DNN Creative Magazine has been released.

In this issue we have released a free pure CSS skin ‘Simple Red Leaf’ which has many advantages over the traditional table based skin, such as: accessibility, flexibility, print view, search engine friendly, small file size, etc.

Alongside the CSS skin are supporting documents to help you get started with creating your own CSS skins, covering techniques for improving skin and module coding standards, minimising CSS code, enabling browsers to operate in standards compliance mode and techniques for testing skins.

Following some of the techniques developed in this CSS skin we have documented how to add some of the features to your own skins. This includes how to enable skins to use resizable text within Internet Explorer and how to replace the Solpart menu with the HouseMenu.

These elements are demonstrated in our series of how to build a website using DotNetNuke.

Laurence Neville has also taken the time to share his experiences of creating a DotNetNuke website in Hebrew, which raises some interesting issues, such as setting the text to display from right to left.

This issue comes complete with 10 video tutorials and a free skin.

Tutorials:

Best Practices

XHTML and best practice coding for skins and modules in DotNetNuke - Free

Testing a DotNetNuke skin - Free

CSS Shorthand code in DotNetNuke - Free

Skinning

Quirks, Standard Compliance modes and Doc Types - Free

How to install and configure the House of Nuke menu for a DotNetNuke skin - Video Tutorial
(4 videos, skin and container - 25min)

How to remove the Solpart menu from a container - Video Tutorial - Free
(4min)

How to create resizable text within DotNetNuke - Video Tutorial
(5 Videos, skin and container - 50min)

Free Skin:

Simple Red Leaf – DotNetNuke CSS Skin - Free

Interview:

How did they build …? www.landmarkeducation.co.il, looking at website design and languages with Laurence Neville - Free

Special Thanks:
To everyone who has subscribed to the magazine, it’s appreciated, without your support I could not produce this magazine.

I would also like to thank everyone who has made a donation to the Red Cross by purchasing one of the free videos through snowcovered.

Testimonials:
Have you found DNN Creative Magazine to be a useful resource? Can you help us spread the word? If you leave a testimonial on DNN Creative with your website address and even a picture of yourself, logo, etc. we can help to bring some traffic to your website in return.

Website enhancements:

Mirror server added: Responding to requests, we have increased the performance of the video downloads. We have added a mirror server, so you can choose to download from a server in America or the UK.

Downloads: To save you time, each issue will now have all of the videos for that issue as a single zip download on the main issue page.

Credit Cards: We now accept credit cards for payment of a subscription to DNN Creative Magazine. If you wish to pay via credit card rather than PayPal, you can purchase a subscription through Snowcovered.

The subscription is only £20 / $35 for a year which gives you full access to the website – in 7 issues we have created 96 videos and 3.5 hours of MP3 interviews!

If you have any suggestions for the magazine, or requests, please do not hesitate to contact me, this magazine is for you.

Many thanks,

Lee Sykes
DNN Creative Magazine

View Issue 7

PS. Download Manager: There are currently 96 videos available for download on DNN Creative Magazine and they are quite large downloads. A good free utility that is available for managing your downloads is Go!Zilla.

This programme allows you to schedule your downloads.
It also automatically reconnects and resumes from download errors and disconnects.

I've found this to be an extremely helpful utility and can highly recommend it for easily scheduling and managing the downloads for all of the videos from DNN Creative Magazine.

You can download the free programme from: http://www.gozilla.com

PPS. View the RSS feeds page, keep up to date with the latest information, or display our articles on your website using the DNN Creative Magazine RSS Feeds .

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Issue 7 - Developing and enhancing skins

creativehost — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT

March 2006

Welcome to the seventh issue of DNN Creative Magazine.

In this issue we have released a free pure CSS skin ‘Simple Red Leaf’ which has many advantages over the traditional table based skin, such as: accessibility, flexibility, print view, search engine friendly, small file size, etc.

Alongside the CSS skin are supporting documents to help you get started with creating your own CSS skins, covering techniques for improving skin and module coding standards, minimising CSS code, enabling browsers to operate in standards compliance mode and techniques for testing skins.

Following some of the techniques developed in this CSS skin we have documented how to add some of the features to your own skins. This includes how to enable skins to use resizable text within Internet Explorer and how to replace the Solpart menu with the HouseMenu.

These elements are demonstrated in our series of how to build a website using DotNetNuke.

Laurence Neville has also taken the time to share his experiences of creating a DotNetNuke website in Hebrew, which raises some interesting issues, such as setting the text to display from right to left.

This issue comes complete with 10 video tutorials and a free skin.

Techniques

Best Practices

XHTML and best practice coding for skins and modules in DotNetNuke - Free

Testing a DotNetNuke skin - Free

CSS Shorthand code in DotNetNuke - Free

Skinning

Quirks, Standard Compliance modes and Doc Types - Free

How to install and configure the House of Nuke menu for a DotNetNuke skin - Video Tutorial
(4 videos, skin and container - 25min)

How to remove the Solpart menu from a container - Video Tutorial - Free
(4min)

How to create resizable text within DotNetNuke - Video Tutorial
(5 Videos, skin and container - 50min)

Free Skin

Simple Red Leaf – DotNetNuke CSS Skin - Free

Interview

How did they build …? www.landmarkeducation.co.il, looking at website design and languages with Laurence Neville - Free

Subscribers: Go to the main Issue 7 page to download all of the videos from a single zip file

DNN Creative Magazine for DotNetNuke® Web Designers
Covering DotNetNuke module video reviews, video tutorials, mp3 interviews, resources and web design tips for working with DotNetNuke.

In seven issues we have created 96 videos and 5 MP3 Interviews!

How to remove the Solpart menu from a container - part 9 – Video Tutorial

creativehost — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 14:12:28 GMT

This is a continuation of our series on How to build a DotNetNuke website.

This video tutorial explains the simple steps for removing the default Solpart menu within a container and replacing it with a drop down list.

The main reason we need to remove the Solpart menu is because the Solpart menu is not compatible with a XHTML Transitional Doc Type.

We need to set up DotNetNuke to use a XHTML Doc Type so that we can successfully implement features such as:

Font-resizing
Pure CSS layout skins (no tables)

Time Length: 4min 13secs
Download Size: 4.2MB

How to Test a DotNetNuke Skin

creativehost — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 06:42:55 GMT

It’s essential to test your DotNetNuke skin in a variety of configurations to ensure it is error free and compatible with as many browsers as possible.

This tutorial provides some of the key elements and tools that you can use to test your DotNetNuke skins.

Covering:

Images
Font Sizes
Web Developer Tools
Browser Testing
Validating Skins
W3C's Online Tools
Validating HTML via File Upload
Validating CSS via File Upload
Web Developer Tool and Conclusion

Browser Quirks, Standard Compliance modes and Doc Types

creativehost — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 06:26:07 GMT

Quirks and Standards Compliance modes are the two methods that browsers can use to interpret your CSS. It’s one of the important considerations if you are implementing a pure CSS skin or using font-resizing techniques.

This tutorial covers:

Quirks and Standards Compliance modes
Switching modes
DOC TYPES Document Type Definition (DTD)
Which XHTML DTD is suitable for DotNetNuke?
How do we set DotNetNuke to use XHTML 1.0 transitional DTD?
Pros and Cons

The tutorial also includes a Default.aspx file for you to download so that you can quickly set your DotNetNuke installation to use XHTML 1.0 Transitional.

XHTML and best practice coding for skins and modules in DotNetNuke

creativehost — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 06:13:15 GMT

This tutorial explains XHTML and how to improve your skin and module coding standards by implementing the XHTML rules. It covers:

Examples
Why bother with XHTML compliant code? What’s it all about?
How does this affect DotNetNuke?
The XHTML standards also need to be adhered to by module developers. Why?

And further resources.

How to install and configure the House of Nuke menu for a DotNetNuke skin - part 8

creativehost — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT

This is part of the How to Build a Website in DotNetNuke series.

This tutorial looks at the HouseMenu created by Tim Rolands from the House of Nuke.

The HouseMenu is a free CSS based menu and can be used to replace the standard Solpart menu that comes with DotNetNuke.

The tutorial covers:

Introduction to the features
The Benefits of the HouseMenu over the Solpart Menu
Issues

And comes complete with 4 videos covering:

Video 1 - Demonstration, Installation (5min)
Video 2 - Adding the HouseMenu to a skin (6min)
Video 3 - Designing and configuring the HouseMenu (10min)
Video 4 - Internet Explorer fixes through CSS hacks and comparisons with the Solpart menu (4min)

Skin and Container files are included with the tutorial.

Minimising and creating efficient CSS code in DotNetNuke

creativehost — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT

This tutorial is intended for people who are familiar and comfortable with CSS.

We look at some of the techniques that are available within CSS to minimise the size of our CSS stylesheets and to write more efficient code.

In particular focusing on:

CSS Shorthand
Grouping Classes
Colour Shorthand

– This is a good performance enhancement for any DotNetNuke skin.

Laurence Neville Website Design and Languages Interview

creativehost — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT

This is part of the How did they build it …? series of interviews.

This is an email interview with Laurence Neville who has created two DotNetNuke sites: www.landmarkeducation.co.il and www.landmarkeducation.co.jp

We discuss how Laurence created these websites, in particular looking at the use of Languages within the sites. This raises some interesting issues, such as setting the text to display from right to left.

How to create resizable text in DotNetNuke - part 10 - 5 Video Tutorials

creativehost — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Continuing our series on How to build a DotNetNuke website, we demonstrate how to enable the Vortex Music skin to use resizable text.

While viewing a web page using Internet Explorer, if you go to the View menu and select Text Size / Largest, you should see that the text size increases.

The main reason to enable text sizing is to make your site accessible to as many people as possible. Enabling text sizing within your website allows visitors with visual impairments the opportunity to view the content of your site.

A further consideration is that it is law in the US and UK to create accessible sites.

This tutorial contains 5 videos which explain the best method for setting this up with a DotNetNuke skin.

The Skin and Container files are included with the tutorial.

Video 1 - Initial preparations and setting up the skin ready for text sizing. (5min)

Video 2 - Initial Classes and cleaning up the CSS code using shorthand techniques, enabling the menu to use text sizing. Details of the various DotNetNuke CSS files and inheritance problems (15min)

Video 3 - Further classes, enabling the Text / HTML module to use text sizing. Viewing and fixing various browser problems. (9min)

Video 4 - Setting skin objects to use text sizing. Fixing further Internet Explorer sizing problems (9min)

Video 5 - Final classes enabled for text sizing. Further testing and viewing in a variety of browsers. (12min)

Rapid Module Development for DotNetNuke

creativehost — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Created by Mark Hoskins

An article covering Rapid Module Development for DotNetNuke - Instant DotNetNuke Modules.

Read More..

How to Enable Spell Checking in DotNetNuke Using NetSpell

creativehost — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 03:29:00 GMT

How to enable a spell checker for the WYSIWYG editor in DotNetNuke 3.x.
Intermediate level. This involves modifying and compiling the HTMLProvider implementation. Visual Studio is required.

Read More..

Rapid DotNetNuke Module Development with Nukelet for PHP Developers

creativehost — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 03:10:00 GMT

This tutorial discusses how to create and distribute custom DotNetNuke 4 modules quickly and easily using the run-time scripting capabilities supplied by a special DotNetNuke module called Nukelet.

A Nukelet (DotNetNuke scriptlet) is a way of creating custom DotNetNuke modules using only run-time scripting languages like PHP. Instead of using Visual Studio to create custom modules in ASP.NET, you can slash module development time by writing scripted modules directly in your DotNetNuke web site framework. Webmasters can now leverage the thousands of PHP scripts already available today.

Read More..

Running DotNetNuke on Windows XP Home or on any other system lacking IIS

creativehost — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 03:03:00 GMT

Created by Vlad Hrybok

This article describes how to run DotNetNuke on UltiDev Cassini web server, which unlike IIS can run on Windows XP Home and can be redistributed along with the DotNetNuke applications.

Read More..

Developing Custom Applications with DotNetNuke (Username and Role)

creativehost — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Created by Charles Stratton

This tutorial demonstrates how you can use any .NET language to create custom applications using the DotNetNuke framework. The tutorial focuses on the two basic necessities in any custom application: username and role.

Read More..

DotNetNuke v4.x Module Tutorial

creativehost — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Created by Michael Washington

This article details how to create a module in DotNetNuke 4.x using Visual Web Developer Express.

Read More..

Use Visual Web Developer Express (VWD) with DotNetNuke

creativehost — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Created by Charles Stratton

This articles demonstrates how to use VWD (also same steps for VS) to build a user control and load it into a DotNetNuke website.

Read More..

DotNetNuke Random Image Module - Tutorial

creativehost — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT

This tutorial provides a step by step demonstration of how to create a random image module for DotNetNuke 3.x in C#.

Read More..

Issues 5 and 6 - Working with skins

creativehost — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Welcome to the fifth and sixth issue of DNN Creative Magazine

Happy New Year to all of our readers!

This issue is a special double issue completely dedicated to using skins and creating skins, along with further tips and tricks for web design. It comes complete with 16 video tutorials.

Within this issue is the launch of a new series of tutorials exploring how to build a website using DotNetNuke®. The series will cover all of the steps involved, from the initial planning, skin creation, adding content, through to the promotion of the website. Throughout the series we will be focusing on creating a music website with DotNetNuke.

To support the skinning tutorials we also had the privilege to mp3 interview Tyler Fawcett who shares his best practices and tips for skin design.

Techniques

Installing and using skins in DotNetNuke

How to install a skin and container in DotNetNuke Video Tutorial
(2 videos - 18min)

How to use skins and containers in DotNetNuke Video Tutorial
(16 min)

Series: How to build a website in DotNetNuke

How to build a website in DotNetNuke - Free

Planning a DotNetNuke website and the solutions - Free

Skin Design Considerations - Free

Creating a skin template – Free

Skinning

Setup Preparations for Skinning Video Tutorial
(10 min)

Introduction to skinning in DotNetNuke Video Tutorial
(12 min)

How to create a skin for DotNetNuke Video Tutorial
(8 videos and skin - 70 min)

How to create a container for DotNetNuke Video Tutorial
(2 videos and container – 16min)

Table tricks for search engine optimized skins in DotNetNuke Video Tutorial - Free
(12min)

Interviews

Skinning and DotNetNuke MP3 Interview with Tyler Fawcett
(24 minutes) - Free

Features

Become a Better Web Standards Developer - Free

Subscribers: Go to the main Issue 5 & 6 page to download all of the videos from a single zip file

DNN Creative Magazine for DotNetNuke® Web Designers
Covering DotNetNuke module video reviews, video tutorials, mp3 interviews, resources and web design tips for working with DotNetNuke.

In six issues we have created 86 videos and 5 MP3 Interviews!

DotNetNuke® Skinning MP3 Interview with Tyler Fawcett

creativehost — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMT

This is a 24 minute mp3 interview by Lee Sykes with Tyler Fawcett discussing Skinning.

Tyler Fawcett won the Best Overall and Most Original skin for his Tranquillity Skin in the DotNetNuke skinning competition.

In this skinning interview we discuss planning, colour selection, best working practices along with various other tips and tricks.

Table tricks for search engine optimized skins in DotNetNuke® - Video Tutorial

creativehost — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMT

The feature of a search engine optimized skin is to easily guide the search engine spiders through your page to the main content that you wish to be indexed as quickly as possible.

Many web designers do not understand the importance of a search engine optimized skin. You can give your website the extra edge over your competition by ensuring your skin design is fully search engine optimized.

This free video tutorial walks you through two table tricks to help you search engine optimise your skins.

The tutorial also includes a download for all of the code.

Time Length: 12min 12secs
Download Size: 9.5MB

How to create a container for DotNetNuke® - part 7 - 2 Video Tutorials

creativehost — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMT

This is part of the How to Build a Website in DotNetNuke series.

This tutorial consists of 2 videos detailing how to create a container for DotNetNuke using Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition.

The container files are included with the videos for you to download.

Video 1 - Creating a container: Image Header – White Background

Copying across the files from the DNN-Blue container to use as a reference
Fixing the errors in the default container
Associating the .CSS file with the .htm file so that you can view the changes you make in the CSS file
Explanation of the Tokens and their functions
Renaming of the classes within the table cells
Editing the container.css file
Explanation of the classes
How to edit the classes to change the look of a container
How to add an image to your container
Using gradient images: making use of the repeat function and background colour to take into account any possible overloads of table cells, or instances such as a browser disabling images
Adding the .xml file

Time Length: 10min 26secs
Download Size: 11.5 MB

Video 2

Packaging a container
How to automatically install the container to your DotNetNuke installation
Viewing the container
Explanation of the classes that we created
Create two further containers and an explanation of each of the containers:
Image Header SE White Background container:

This container is similar to the first container except elements of the code and Tokens that we do not need have been stripped out to reduce the file size and page load times

Transparent.htm

This container is completely transparent

Final changes and setting up the containers for release to a production environment

Time Length: 5min 47secs
Download Size: 6.5 MB

How to create a skin for DotNetNuke® - part 6 - 8 Video Tutorials

creativehost — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMT

This is part of the How to Build a Website in DotNetNuke series.

This tutorial consists of 8 videos detailing how to create a skin for DotNetNuke using Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition.

The skin files are included with the videos for you to download.

Video 1 - Initial preparations and setup in VWD (6min)

Video 2 - Setting up the layout of the skin using tables (14min)

Video 3 - Packaging and uploading the first edit of the skin to a localhost installation (4min)

Video 4 - Creating a skin.xml file and setting the menu to display vertically (3min)

Video 5 - Styling the skin using the skin.css file and methods to quickly view the edits of a skin (6min)

Video 6 - Styling the skin using the skin.css file continued … (working with images) (11min)

Video 7 - Styling the skin using the skin.css file continued … (the menu) (16min)

Video 8 - Styling the skin using the skin.css file continued … (adding the final classes and releasing the skin) (11min)

Introduction to Skinning in DotNetNuke® - part 5 - Video Tutorial

creativehost — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMT

This is part of the How to Build a Website in DotNetNuke series.

This tutorial demonstrates the various components that make up a skin and how a skin works.

The video covers the following details:

Why a skin does not use <HTML> <BODY> or <FORM> tags
.htm and .ascx and the differences between the two files
Placeholders [Tokens] – uniquely identify a skin object
Working with images
Content Panes and how they are added to a skin – the minimum requirement is for one content pane to be named “ContentPane”
Skin.css stylesheet
Tokens and the .xml file
Skin Objects – attributes

If you are using a .htm file the settings of the tokens are provided within the skin.xml file
If you are using a .ascx file the settings are provided directly within the .ascx file

Time Length: 11min 36secs
Download Size: 11.1MB

Setup Preparations for Skinning - part 4 - Video Tutorial

creativehost — Mon, 26 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMT

This is part of the How to Build a Website in DotNetNuke series.

This video tutorial provides information related to setting up your computer ready for skinning. It covers:

Creating the folder structure
Copying across the DNN skins as a reference
Setting up Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition
Setting up your localhost install of DotNetNuke ready for skin testing

Time Length: 10min 27secs
Download Size: 9.4MB

Creating a Skin Template - part 3

creativehost — Sun, 25 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMT

This is part of the How to Build a Website in DotNetNuke series

In this tutorial we create a skin design template for beginners to DotNetNuke. We base the design of the skin on the standard skins that come free with DotNetNuke and demonstrate how you can adapt this skin to suit your own website.

Skin Design Considerations - part 2

creativehost — Sat, 24 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMT

This is part of the How to Build a Website in DotNetNuke series

This tutorial looks at the skin design considerations for a music website.

We consider the main objectives for the skin and further considerations that we need to take into account when designing the skin.

Planning a DotNetNuke® website - part 1

creativehost — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMT

This is part of the How to Build a Website in DotNetNuke series of tutorials.

This tutorial looks at the planning of a music website.

We consider what our website aims to achieve and how we can use DotNetNuke to achieve our needs.

How to Build a Website using DotNetNuke®

creativehost — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMT

This is a new series of tutorials exploring how to build a website using DotNetNuke. The series will cover all of the steps involved, from the initial planning, skin creation, adding content, through to the promotion of the website.

Throughout the series we will be focusing on creating a music website with DotNetNuke.

How to use Skins and Containers in DotNetNuke® - Video Tutorial

creativehost — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMT

This video tutorial provides a detailed explanation for working with skins and applying skins to your DotNetNuke® portal.

This covers setting skins up at Host, Portal, Page and Module level (containers) and explains how each level interacts with each other.

Time Length: 16 min 9secs
Download Size: 16MB

How to install a skin and container in DotNetNuke® - Video Tutorial

creativehost — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMT

In this tutorial we explain how to upload and install a skin to your DotNetNuke® portal.

Video 1 covers:

How to install a skin to the Host Portal section
How to install a skin to the Current Site Portal
Setting permissions for uploading skins

Time Length: 13min 26secs
Download Size: 12.3MB

Video 2 covers:

How to automatically batch install skins and containers to DotNetNuke®

Time Length: 4min 55secs
Download Size: 3.8MB

Configuring DotNetNuke® before installation

creativehost — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMT

The initial installation of DotNetNuke can be configured so that when you upload and initiate the installation, all of your preferred settings, modules, and skins are automatically installed.

This can be a massive time saving device.

Options can include setting up the:

Host Menu / Site Settings
Admin Menu / Portal Site Settings
Parent / Child Portals
Automatically installing 3rd party modules, skins and containers, private assemblies and language packs

Further options can also include creating a default series of pages which are automatically installed with DotNetNuke.

The tutorial comes complete with two video tutorials totalling 24 minutes in length.

Issue 4 - Installation Essentials

creativehost — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMT

Welcome to the fourth issue of DNN Creative Magazine

November has been an exciting month. DotNetNuke® versions 3.2 and 4.0 have been released alongside the Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 release.

To help you with the latest releases of DotNetNuke we have focused this issue on Installing and Configuring DotNetNuke for a hosting provider.

We have also further developed the RSS tutorials. In November we made a request to snowcovered.com for RSS feeds of their latest products, which they created especially for us. For the readers of the magazine, we have created a special tutorial which demonstrates how to display the snowcovered.com RSS feeds and earn a 10% referral bonus for your website.

This month we have been very lucky to mp3 interview Jeff Smith from Venexus, inc. Jeff discusses in detail how to ensure DotNetNuke is fully search engine optimized and the pitfalls to avoid. This is essential listening for all DotNetNuke users from skin designers, module developers to administrators of DotNetNuke portals.

Techniques

Installing and Configuring DotNetNuke:

How to adjust your Nameserver settings - Free

How to install DotNetNuke 3.2 to a website hosting provider Video Tutorial – Free
(30 min)

How to upgrade DotNetNuke from v3.x to v3.2 Video Tutorial – Free
(20 min)

How to configure DotNetNuke before installation Video Tutorial
(24min)

DotNetNuke Modules:

How to install a module to DotNetNuke Video Tutorial - Free
(3min)

RSS Tutorials:

How to add the Snowcovered.com RSS feeds to your DotNetNuke portal (and earn a 10% referral bonus!) – Free

How to enable RSS Auto-Discovery Aggregation in DotNetNuke – Free
(Firefox live bookmarks)

Interviews

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and DotNetNuke MP3 Interview with Jeff Smith from Venexus, Inc.
(60 minutes)

Features

Jagger, Google Analytics, and the Future of Search & SEO - Free

Subscribers: Go to the main Issue 4 page to download all of the videos from a single zip file

DNN Creative Magazine for DotNetNuke® Web Designers
Covering DotNetNuke module video reviews, video tutorials, mp3 interviews, resources and web design tips for working with DotNetNuke.

Become a Better Web Standards Developer

creativehost — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMT

Learning to develop web-sites using web standards is a bit like learning the guitar, it's fairly easy to get started but to master it takes years of hard work and learning. With the right approach you can become more efficient.

This article provides an introduction to web standards, accessibility, CSS, creating bulletproof websites, along with a list of useful resources to get you started.

How to upgrade DotNetNuke® from v3.x to v3.2 on a live website

creativehost — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 10:59:05 GMT

This free video tutorial demonstrates how to upgrade DotNetNuke® from any version 3.x to the latest DotNetNuke 3.2 version.

The video walks you through the entire process of upgrading your DotNetNuke portal and comes complete with key notes to help you have a successful upgrade.

Time Length: 20:04 min
Download Size: 16.9MB

Installing DotNetNuke 3.2 to a website hosting provider

creativehost — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 10:39:19 GMT

This free video tutorial demonstrates how to install DotNetNuke® 3.2 to a hosting provider. We demonstrate this using Server Intellect as our hosting provider (In a shared hosting environment).

Video 1 covers:

Configuring your hosting provider server (using Helm Control Panel)
Adding a website domain name
Using a domain alias (Temporary URL) (we use this while waiting for the Nameserver settings to take effect – approx 24 / 48 hours)
How to create a Microsoft SQL Server database
How to create a User and Password to access the SQL Server database
How to set which version of ASP.NET to use (1.1 or 2.0)
Downloading the DotNetNuke® code, extracting the zip
Editing the release.config file and creating the web.config file
Adding the SQL database connection string to the web.config file

Time Length: 15:42
Download size: 11.6MB

Video 2 covers:

Final checks to make to the server settings before uploading the DotNetNuke® files
How to find a free FTP programme
Uploading the DotNetNuke® files via FTP using AceFTP3
How to start the installation process of DotNetNuke® using a temporary URL
24 hours later configuring DotNetNuke® to use the actual URL
How to configure the portal aliases for DotNetNuke®
Final security changes you need to make

Time Length: 14:21
Download size: 10.8MB

How to adjust your Nameserver settings

creativehost — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 10:24:01 GMT

Once you have bought your own domain name (ie. www.dnncreative.com) and your hosting package, you need to point your domain name from your domain registrar to your hosting providers’ servers in order to access your web page.

It's important that you do this as soon as possible as it can take 24 to 48 hours for the new settings to take effect across the internet.

In this tutorial we have purchased our domain name using 1&1.com and we are going to point the domain to the serverintellect.com servers.

Note: each domain registrar will adjust the nameserver settings in a slightly different way, but the basic principles that are demonstrated here will apply for all domain registrars.

How to add the Snowcovered.com RSS feeds to your DotNetNuke® portal

creativehost — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 10:08:54 GMT

(and earn a 10% referral bonus!)

Snowcovered.com sell DotNetNuke® related products from Module and Skin developers. Snowcovered.com also provide a 10% referral bonus scheme. If one of your website visitors clicks on a link to snowcovered.com and makes a purchase, you receive 10% of the customer sales.

Following a request, Snowcovered.com agreed to create some RSS feeds so that I could easily display their latest products on DNN Creative Magazine and receive a 10% commission on sales.

This tutorial demonstrates how to add your own referral ID to the RSS feed that Snowcovered.com provide and how to display this feed on your own website.

This tutorial uses the free News Feeds (RSS) core module. You do not need to purchase any modules to set this up.

If you use the Orizonti Nuke Feeds module, there are also templates at the end of the tutorial especially for Nuke Feeds.

Jagger, Google Analytics, and the Future of Search & SEO

creativehost — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 09:44:11 GMT

Two big things have just happened in Google-land: Jagger and Google Analytics. Together, these two events may have changed the face of search forever.

Find out about the latest Google updates and the future of SEO.

DotNetNuke Search Engine Optimization MP3 Interview

creativehost — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT

This is a detailed 60 minute mp3 interview by Lee Sykes with Jeff Smith from Venexus, Inc.

In this interview we discuss Search Engine Optimization and the various techniques you can use to ensure your DotNetNuke portal is fully Search Engine Optimized.

The interview covers a range of topics which are essential knowledge for all DotNetNuke users, module developers and skin designers.

Initial keyword research before creating a website
Using multiple domain names and how to avoid penalisation from the Search Engines
The skin design process and tricks for SEO
Search Engine Optimized content
Content and links
Problems caused by certain modules for SEO
Duplicate content and problems caused by the default installation of DotNetNuke
Website marketing & promotion options
Monitoring your marketing success

Enabling RSS Auto-Discovery Aggregation in DotNetNuke®

creativehost — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT

Firefox Live Bookmarks in DotNetNuke

Some RSS aggregators have the capability of finding an RSS feed on a web page and making it easy for the user to subscribe to it

An example of this can be seen in the Firefox browser, whenever the browser discovers an RSS feed, it displays an orange icon in the bottom right of the browser window.

If you click on the orange Firefox icon it will give you the option to subscribe to the RSS feed.

This tutorial explains how to enable RSS auto-discovery aggregation in DotNetNuke.

How to install a module to DotNetNuke®

creativehost — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT

This free video tutorial demonstrates how to install a module to DotNetNuke®.

This installation tutorial is the standard method of installing a module. Some third party modules require special installation procedures, so always ensure you read any additional installation instructions that are included with a module.

The tutorial demonstrates downloading the blog module from the dotnetnuke.com website and how to install it to your DotNetNuke portal.

Issue 3 - The Really Simple Issue (RSS)

creativehost — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT

Welcome to the third issue of DNN Creative Magazine

This issue is completely dedicated to RSS (Really Simple Syndication).

Have you noticed this orange RSS icon appearing more and more on websites and wondered what it is for?

This issue looks at RSS from the very beginning, through to the benefits RSS can bring to your website and demonstrates how to implement RSS in a DotNetNuke website.

The features section consists of 8 free RSS articles, which will demonstrate why you should not delay in implementing RSS feeds.

The interview section discusses Podcasting, as well as continuing the How Did They Build it? series, which offers a detailed insight into the development of cryoresponse.com

And finally, if you feel the need to play after studying RSS, there is a tutorial covering how to implement Flash Games into your DotNetNuke websites.

Reviews

Module Video Reviews / Tutorials - RSS Modules

Orizonti Nuke Feeds RSS Module
(18 mins)

E-book Reviews

Unleash the Marketing & Publishing Power of RSS - by Rok Hrastnik

Techniques

Beginners Guides:

How to Display an RSS Feed within your DotNetNuke Portal

How to create an RSS feed using DotNetNuke Video Tutorial
(5 min)

DotNetNuke® Core Modules:

The DotNetNuke® News Feed (RSS) Module Video Tutorial - Free
(6 min)

Setting up the RSS News Feed XSL Stylesheet - Free

Advanced:

How to display Flash Games in a DotNetNuke portal

Interviews

Podcasting and DotNetNuke Interview with Scott Schecter - Free

How did they build …? Cryoresponse.com DotNetNuke website with Brad Schafer from the Schafer Design Group
(60 minute mp3 interview)

Features

What is RSS? - Free

Defining the Relations Between Blogs, E-zines, RSS and E-mail - Free

RSS Meets the Needs of Direct Marketers - Free

What You Can Publish via RSS - Free

RSS Works: Hard Metrics to Prove It – Free

Do Marketers Really Need RSS? – Free

The RSS Promise for Internet Users – Free

The 7-Step RSS Marketing Plan – Free

Subscribers: Go to the main Issue 3 page to download all of the videos from a single zip file

DNN Creative Magazine for DotNetNuke® Web Designers
Covering DotNetNuke module video reviews, video tutorials, mp3 interviews, resources and web design tips for working with DotNetNuke.

Issue 2 - A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

creativehost — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT

Welcome to the second issue of DNN Creative Magazine

This issue looks at working with images, from reviews to tutorials. The technique section continues with the advanced techniques for managing pages. Plus this issue is the launch of our MP3 interview series, which is a very exciting adventure for us. We hope you will find them insightful and useful.

Reviews

Module Video Reviews / Tutorials - Images and Gallery Modules

Scott McCulloch Simple Gallery Module
(22 mins)

Spohn Software Over and Out Images Module
(12 mins)

WDK Solutions wildPortfolio Module
(34 mins)

ZLDNN Photo Album Module
(19 mins)

Techniques

Beginners Guides:

Working with images in DotNetNuke - Free

Beginners guide to HTML - Free

DotNetNuke® Core Modules:

The DotNetNuke Images module - Video (5 mins)

Administrators:

Advanced Page Settings - 3 x Videos (18 mins)

Managing Pages - Video (4 mins)

Advanced:

DotNetNuke® and Http Compression - Free

MP3 Interviews

Google Sitemaps with John Mueller (23 mins)

How did they build …? The Bi4ce DotNetNuke website with Chris Chodnicki and Kevin Schreiner (42 mins)

Features

RSS an Introduction - Free

Subscribers: Go to the main Issue 2 page to download all of the videos from a single zip file

DNN Creative Magazine for DotNetNuke® Web Designers
Covering DotNetNuke module video reviews, video tutorials, resources and web design tips for working with DotNetNuke.

Issue 3 Released – The Really Simple Issue (RSS)

creativehost — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT

November Issue 3 Released

I am pleased to announce that issue 3 of DNN Creative Magazine has been released.

This issue is completely dedicated to RSS (Really Simple Syndication).

Have you noticed the orange RSS icon appearing more and more on websites and wondered what it is for?

This issue looks at RSS from the very beginning, through to the benefits RSS can bring to your website and demonstrates how to implement RSS in a DotNetNuke website.

I have spent the past 2 months studying RSS and its uses in depth. Now, more than ever, I understand how important it is to ensure that your website is ready for the future demand of RSS.

The features section consists of 8 free RSS articles, which will demonstrate why you should not delay in implementing RSS feeds.

The technique section demonstrates how to implement RSS feeds within DotNetNuke, for both displaying and publishing RSS feeds.

The reviews look at an RSS module and a 344 page e-book dedicated to Marketing & RSS.

Interviews:

How Did They Build It? – MP3 Interview (60mins) Brad Schafer talks us through the entire process of creating the cryoresponse.com website, from the very beginning of the first consultation, the steps involved and conclusions made. Includes the original art work designs.
Podcasting and DotNetNuke with Scott Schecter An email interview with Scott Schecter discussing Podcasting, how it works, the benefits it can bring to your business and Scott's DotNetNuke® Podcasting module, NukeSyndicate

And finally if you feel the need to play and have some fun after studying RSS, there is a tutorial covering how to implement Flash Games into your DotNetNuke website.

Don’t put it off, start today. The use of RSS is rapidly growing and sooner, rather than later, the users of your website will be demanding your content via RSS…

Support the Magazine

Thank you to all of you who have contributed to the magazine with your DotNetNuke news, articles, information and words of encouragement, it is really appreciated. Please help me to continue this work by subscribing to the magazine.

The subscription is only £20 / $35 for a year which gives you full access to the website – in 3 issues we have created 6.5 hours of videos and 2 hours of mp3 interviews!

If you have any suggestions for the magazine, or requests, please do not hesitate to contact me, this magazine is for you.

Many thanks,

Lee Sykes
DNN Creative Magazine

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PS. If you already know everything about RSS, make sure you read the free e-book review of Unleash the Marketing & Publishing Power of RSS, there is something in this book for everyone.

Podcasting Interview with Scott Schecter

creativehost — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMT

An email interview with Scott Schecter from Schecter Technology Solutions discussing Podcasting, how it works, the benefits it can bring to your business and Scott's DotNetNuke® Podcasting module, NukeSyndicate.

How to display Flash Games in DotNetNuke®

creativehost — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMT

This tutorial explains how to display flash (games) within DotNetNuke®.

You can see an example of this in action on the games pages that are used in DNN Creative Magazine.

This tutorial can be applied to any flash file that you wish to incorporate into your pages, not just flash games.

There are two options available. You can either purchase a module which will automatically play flash files for you, which you can easily configure, or using a small amount of code, you can embed any flash file you require for free.

We demonstrate how to use the free method.

The tutorial does not change any of the core code in DotNetNuke and you do not need to understand flash programming to follow this tutorial. All you need is a basic understanding of how DotNetNuke works, eg. How to add a module to a page, etc.

Brad Schafer Website Design DotNetNuke Interview

creativehost — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMT

How did they build …?

This is a 60 minute mp3 interview with Brad Schafer from the Schafer Design Group.

In this interview we look at the whole web design process, right from the very beginning of the first consultation, the steps involved, the conclusions made, and how all of this information is applied when creating a website using DotNetNuke®

We focus on one of the DotNetNuke® websites that Brad has designed to provide a working example: http://www.cryoresponse.com

In particular focusing on:

The Consultation Process
Research and Planning
Content
Logo
Skinning
Modules
Promotion
Top Tips

How to create an RSS feed using DotNetNuke®

creativehost — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMT

This tutorial covers How to create an RSS feed using DotNetNuke®, complete with a 5minute video.

It explores:

The various methods available for creating an RSS feed, from free to premium modules
Choosing the most suitable modules for your RSS needs

Enabling an RSS feed within the DotNetNuke core modules works the same for all of the modules, this video tutorial demonstrates:

Enabling RSS Syndication in the DNN Announcements module - Video

This video demonstrates how to enable RSS Syndication within the DotNetNuke core modules. Looking at the announcements module, how to enable syndication, a demonstration of how the feed will be displayed within a website and within an on-line RSS reader such as pluck.com

Time Length: (5min 0secs)
File Size: 3.8MB

The tutorial then progresses to discuss:

What are the other RSS options available?
Using Images and Links in RSS feeds
Promotion - ‘Blog and Ping’ what is it anyway?

Don’t put it off, start today. The use of RSS is rapidly growing and sooner, rather than later, the users of your website will be demanding your content via RSS…

How to display RSS feeds in DotNetNuke®

creativehost — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMT

There are many advantages to displaying RSS content from other websites, blogs, etc.

This article discusses displaying RSS feeds in a DotNetNuke® portal, covering:

How to display RSS feeds in a DotNetNuke portal
Discusses the options available for displaying RSS feeds in a DotNetNuke portal, covering the free News Feed (RSS) module and the opportunities and benefits that the premium RSS reader modules can provide.

How to find RSS feeds suitable for displaying on your website
Provides a list of resources and ideas of how to find an RSS feed most suitable and finely targeted to your needs.

Why should you display RSS feeds on your website?
Discusses the benefits RSS feeds can bring to your site and the opportunities it can provide for improving the quality and user experience of the visitors to your website.

The DotNetNuke® News Feed (RSS) Module

creativehost — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMT

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

Setting up the RSS News Feed XSL Stylesheet

creativehost — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMT

Adding an RSS Feed to the standard DotNetNuke® RSS News Feed module is an easy process, the confusion begins once you have added the feed and your page doesn’t display in the way you intended. Quite often it displays the actual HTML tags rather than a nicely formatted page.

In order to display an RSS feed in the formatting you require; you need to use a XSL transformation file (named News Feed Style Sheet in the RSS News Feed Module).

This tutorial will allow you to easily set up the display of your RSS feeds. It provides 6 example XSL transformation files for you to download.

Unleash the Marketing & Publishing Power of RSS - E-book Review

creativehost — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMT

An in-depth review of Unleash the Marketing & Publishing Power of RSS e-book by Rok Hrastnik. Providing detailed information on each chapter and the information you will learn.

A review of this RSS book and an analysis of how it will help you to implement RSS feeds within your DotNetNuke® portal.

The 7-Step RSS Marketing Plan

creativehost — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMT

If you’re wondering how to get started with RSS marketing, here’s a basic 7-step plan that should provide some needed guidance. Use these steps as your personal RSS marketing checklist to get you started and help you see whether you’re on the right track.

The RSS Promise for Internet Users

creativehost — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMT

A look at the benefits RSS brings to the end-user.

These points are not simple enhancements, but important advancements that can fundamentally change how internet content is consumed. Furthermore, these points themselves prove why marketers need to start implementing RSS now!

To bring the point home, let us inspect some of the content services already powered by RSS.

Do Marketers Really Need RSS?

creativehost — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMT

The recent Forrester Research study, which claims that only 2% of online households in North America use RSS, took the internet marketing world by storm. Does this data really mean that marketers can still afford to ignore this channel?

Should marketers be interested in RSS now that so few online adults use it?

Is this the correct question to ask? Let’s take a look at the bigger picture …

Orizonti Nuke Feeds Module V1.2 for DNN 3.x - Review

creativehost — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMT

This is an independent review of Orizonti Nuke Feeds module for DotNetNuke® V3.x

Alongside the review are 3 Flash Video Walk Throughs / Tutorials totalling 18 minutes to demonstrate the modules features and possible uses.

Module Details

Nuke Feeds is a module for displaying RSS feeds. It allows customizable template design and support for RSS 0.9x, 1.0, 2.0 as well as Atom feeds.

Features

Multiple RSS Feeds can be added
Paging
Feed filtering using keywords or Regular Expressions
Supports RSS 0.9x, 1.0, 2.0 and Atom feeds with auto-detection of feed-type
Cached feed data is stored in database until next update
Templates allow you to completely customize how the feed items are displayed and the data displayed for each item
CSS styles to customise the display

RSS Works: Hard Metrics to Prove It

creativehost — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMT

Marketers are constantly asking if RSS marketing works and if this can be proved.

We’re going to take a look at some real-life RSS metrics from real-life marketers. These will show you what kind of results you can expect to see from RSS.

TotallyFabricated NewsReader 1.5 for DNN3.x

creativehost — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMT

The TotallyFabricated.com NewsReader is based upon the original DNN 2.0 RSS Feed Module and reworked for DNN 3. Our team has rewritten this module from the ground up with a host of new features that allow the user to customize the display of information returned by the RSS Feed.

XMod RSS Reader V4.7 for DNN3.x & DNN4.x

creativehost — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMT

As an XMod add-on, XMod RSS Reader can take advantage of its formatting engine to make displaying RSS feeds as simple as displaying data in XMod. Behind the scenes, XMod RSS Reader takes the data from the feed and converts it to data that can be read by XMod. Once that's been done, you can position and format data from that feed just as you would in XMod.

What You Can Publish via RSS

creativehost — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMT

Contrary to popular opinion, RSS is not only good for delivering content from your blog, but has much more marketing and publishing potential.

In fact, RSS can be used to deliver a great variety of content and content types. If you can break down your content in to individual stories or individual pieces, you can deliver it via RSS.

RSS Meets the Needs of Direct Marketers

creativehost — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMT

Contrary to general opinion, RSS meets the needs of even the most demanding direct marketer, actually providing most of what e-mail marketing does, except for the strong push factor.

Most direct marketing reasons against RSS are in fact the result of inadequate understanding of RSS by most marketers.

Gwen RSS Writer for DNN3.x

creativehost — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMT

Gwen RSS is a RSS feed writer. Follows RSS 2.0 syntax. Customizable by the administrator. Read and modify existing RSS 2.0 feeds.

Defining the Relations Between Blogs, E-zines, RSS and E-mail

creativehost — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMT

Although RSS and blogs are slowly reaching mainstream, they are still missuderstood by most marketers in relation to each other and in relation to their relatives, e-zines and e-mail. How do these four really relate and what does this mean for your internet marketing strategy?

Issue 2 Released - A Picture is worth a thousand words

creativehost — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 09:04:56 GMT

October Issue 2 Released

I am pleased to announce that issue 2 of DNN Creative Magazine has been released.

This issue looks at working with images, from reviews to tutorials. The technique section continues with the advanced techniques for managing pages. Plus this issue is the launch of our MP3 interview series, which is a very exciting adventure for us. We hope you will find them insightful and useful.

114 minutes of video tutorials and 65 minutes of MP3 interviews in this issue.

MP3 Interviews:

Have you looked at DotNetNuke® websites and wondered how did they build it? Well, this is the start of an MP3 interview series which looks exactly at that, hear Chris Chodnicki and Kevin Schreiner from Bi4ce talk about how they built the Bi4ce website.
Google Sitemaps There have been many questions in the forums regarding Google sitemaps. This interview will provide all of the answers you need, complete with information on how to create Google Sitemaps for free and the pitfalls to avoid.

Have you visited our forum yet?
If you have any comments or requests for the magazine, please leave your feedback in the forum. Share your experience with the community and leave feedback on your DotNetNuke Hosting Provider. Share and read DotNetNuke® Quick Tips.

DotNetNuke® News?
If you have any news you would like to share with the community, find out how to publish it in DNN Creative Magazine for free.

DotNetNuke® Resource
DNN Creative has been added to the DotNetNuke.com resources page, if you find this magazine useful, I would really appreciate it if you could add your comments here.

Support the Magazine

Thank you for all of your words of encouragement since the launch of issue 1 in September, it is really appreciated. Please help me to continue this work by subscribing to the magazine.

This is excellent value for money at £20 / $35 for a year which gives you full access to the website – in 2 issues we have already created nearly 6 hours of video tutorials!

If you have any questions with regards to the subscription, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Many thanks,

Lee Sykes
DNN Creative Magazine

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PS. If there is only one tip you follow this month, make sure you read the Http Compression tutorial. This allows you to drastically reduce the download size of the pages within your DotNetNuke® portal and will greatly improve the performance of your website!

bhattji Photo-Text for DNN3.x