DotNetNuke Module Directory

This is an independent review of Xepient Solutions Open-SearchEngine 2.0. The review looks at the module for its features, usability, functionality, ease of use, stability, value for money.

According to Xepient, Open-SearchEngine provides DotNetNuke with a true enterprise search engine capable of indexing html content as well as documents from multiple sites and / or physical directories.

Key Features:

• Based on Lucene.net, includes a true web spider
• Capable of multi threaded indexing of any site, DNN or not
• Does not rely on database to index content
• Indexing of PDF files and Office documents
• Search results can be limited to a site that is indexed and by security role
• Search spider can impersonate security roles to index otherwise unavailable content
• Compliance with ‘no follow’ the spider will not follow and index those links
• Spider can index the content of a folder to index all of its documents directly
• Automatic exclusion of specified file types
• Automatic exclusion of anonymous modules, prevents duplicate results from page such as the Terms and Privacy pages
• Search Input and Results display can be configured and styled
• Search Input Skin Object included
• Text can be localized

This is an independent review of Venexus Search Engine and Software Collection. The review looks at the module for its features, usability, functionality, ease of use, stability, value for money.

The focus in this review is the Venexus search module. Venexus sell their modules all in one package as a software collection, so we will also touch upon the software collection and the additional functions that you can implement with the Venexus modules.

Key Features:

• Custom Crawler using iPortable interface, traditional URL web spider, RSS aggregation
• Global Crawler
• Indexing of PDF files and Office documents
• Full-Text Indexing in SQL Server
• Smart Caching
• Allow users to add RSS feeds
• RSS feeds for search results
• RSS feed of latest items indexed
• Blog and feed aggregator pinging
• Search box can be configured and styled
• Portal (site) or web search
• Keyword highlighting
• Social Bookmarking

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

Subejects covered:

• Design
• Use of Flash
• Menu modification
• Modules used
• Content structure

This is an independent review of the Active Purchase module. The review looks at the module for its features, useability, functionality, ease of use, stability, value for money.

Active Modules says: "Imagine having an order form with a checkout process that is completely customizable. Then add the option to incorporate your own business rules that can be applied to each product or service you offer."

Key Features:

• Intuitive Interface
• Discounts & Coupons
• Localization
• Admin Dashboard
• Layout Templates
• Customer Management
• Developer Tools
• Invoice Creation
• Email Templates
• AJAX Enabled
• Order History
• Product Performance
• Custom Themes
• Dedicated Support
• Built for Web 2.0

This is an independent review of the AliCommerce Shopping Cart 1.2. The review looks at the module for its features, useability, functionality, ease of use, stability, value for money.

Key Features

• Categories
• Products
• Orders
• Payment Methods
• Credit Card Gateways
• Shipping
• Taxes
• Email Templates
• Store UI and Design
• Reports
• Security
• Store Wide Features

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

This is an independent review of the AspDotNetStoreFront module. The review looks at the module for its features, useability, functionality, ease of use, stability, value for money.

AspDotNetStoreFront (Commonly referred to as ASPDNSF) has been developing and maintaining its e-commerce software since 1997. Up until the recent ML/DNN version, AspDotNetStoreFront was a standard asp.net application with over 10,000 clients leveraging its many features and capabilities.

Key Features:

• Support for the most popular gateways: Authorize.net, Verisign, Linkpoint, PayPal, PayPal Express, PayPal Website Payments PRO, and more
• XML and Excel Product Imports
• RealTime FedEx, UPS, DHL, USPS Shipping Rates already integrated
• Quickbooks Export
• Complete support for search engine crawling, as well as control of static links, meta tags, titles, keywords, and alt-tags
• Multi-Lingual
• Quantity discounts
• Physical or Downloaded products
• Google Checkout integration

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...

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

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.