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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
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.
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(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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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While not a new development, a tool which can greatly improve the performance of your DNN installation is referred to as HttpCompression.
HttpCompression refers to a method of compressing data sent from your server then passing that data to the client browser where it is decompressed on the fly. Thus increasing the display speed of your pages by sending less data across the pipe.
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