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How to use Skins and Containers in DotNetNuke® - Video Tutorial

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

Categories: Tutorials, Video, Tutorials: Beginners

How to install a skin and container in DotNetNuke® - Video Tutorial

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

Categories: Tutorials, Video, Tutorials: Beginners

How to upgrade DotNetNuke® from v3.x to v3.2 on a live website

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

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

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 install a module to DotNetNuke®

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.

Working with Images in DotNetNuke®

This free tutorial discusses the various options available when using images within a DotNetNuke® portal.

Beginners HTML guide for DotNetNuke

This free tutorial is a basic overview for working with HTML.

When working with the Text / HTML module in DotNetNuke® it helps to have a basic understanding of HTML.

The Text / HTML module within DotNetNuke® allows you to add text to your website without needing a knowledge of HTML.

To have further control over the layout of the text and images within your website, a basic understanding of how HTML works however will go a long way.

Categories: Tutorials, Tutorials: Beginners

How to Optimize an Image Before Uploading it to Your Website - Video Tutorial

This free video tutorial is a beginner’s guide to preparing images for a web page.

Adding images to a web page makes the page more interesting, visually attractive and appealing to the eye.

If you do not prepare an image correctly before uploading it to your website however, you are likely to lose visitors because the page will take too long to download.

Basic Introduction to Working with Pages in DotNetNuke® - Video Tutorial

This DotNetNuke® Video Tutorial introduces the basics for working with pages and the menu system, covering:

Adding a Page
The Page (Menu) Name
Page Title
Description
Keywords
Parent Page
Permissions

We walk through adding 5 pages as different examples of working with the menu system.

Time length: 8:25 min
Download Size: 6.1MB

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