SPECIAL REPORT: A First Look at DotNetNuke 6

By Andy Stephenson

June 2011

DotNetNuke is changing for the better! In this DotNetNuke training series we will be taking a first look at DNN6.

The DotNetNuke team have been working on some great new developments:

• New modal pop up windows
• A new control panel
• New style admin and host menus
• A new HTML editor provider
• A brand new page admin module.

These developments help administrators to work faster and more efficiently than ever before, We'll take you through all the developments that are available in this release.

At the time of recording this video, DotNetNuke 6 is in its ‘alpha’ stage (6.0.0 CPT), meaning it is undergoing vigorous community testing before it moves into the ‘beta’ stage, then we will hopefully see its ‘stable’ official release before too long.

The videos contain:

• Introduction and homepage
• Registering and the first modal pop up window
• The new admin control panel
• Admin and Host menus
• Standardised tab system
• Module categories
• Pinning the control panel

Time length: 5min 37secs

• The HTML module settings dialog
• The standardised tab system
• Tab system workflow
• Page settings pop up
• Adding a page title

Time Length: 4min 05secs

• Pages admin module introduction
• Dragging and dropping pages
• Adding pages to the admin module
• Page state key
• The right click context menu
• Adding multiple pages
• Page settings within pages admin

Time Length: 7min 29secs

• Introduction
• The editor admin settings module
• Different tools per role
• Managing editor roles
• Adding more tools for admin roles
• Brief tour of page and host settings

Time Length: 5min 11secs