RSS Feed Module Reviews

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.

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

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