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RP News Items Module for DNN 3.x - Review

creativehost — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMT

This is an independant review of Rogue Proeliator News Items Module for DotNetNuke® V3.x by Lee Sykes.

Alongside the review are 4 Video Tutorials totalling 24 minutes to demonstrate the modules features and possible uses.

Module Details:

The News Items module allows the user to maintain a list of announcements and news briefs. The module is an expansion of the DotNetNuke® Core Announcements Module.

The News Items module supports the following components for each News Item:

Headline & News Text
"Audit" showing posted-by user and time
News Commentary
Parent-Child list relationship with links
Customizable Read More link

Additional Features

Auto View Order: Allows you to easily adjust the view order for all items in the module
Manage Expired Items: Provides a way to view, edit and delete items for the module which have passed the Expiration Date.

Orizonti Nuke News V1.3 Module for DNN 3.x - Review

creativehost — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 07:58:00 GMT

This is an independent review of Orizonti's Nuke News for DotNetNuke® V3.1 by Lee Sykes.

Alongside the review are 8 Flash Tutorials totalling 30 minutes to demonstrate the modules features and possible uses.

Throughout these eight videos we work through practical examples of using the module with a football news website.

Module Details

According to Orizonti, NukeNews was designed from the need to easily allow news submissions and approvals, categorization and posting, flexible archiving and display of archives and finally a flexible, customizable themed look.

Features

News can be submitted by selected role
News can be "auto-approved" or require approval before posting
Email Notification of new submissions needing approval
News is categorized by customized category list and displayed with associated category image
CSS "Theme-able". Includes two CSS themes and any number may be easily added
Flexible archiving options for each article include: never archive, module configured # days, or a specified date
Always show # of articles ensures no "empty" modules from archiving
Archived news is automatically categorized by Month/Year
News syndication via RSS
Article rating and comments
Editable Post Date allows “Release Date“ for posting articles in future which aren't displayed until post date.
Searchable via DNN3 site searches
RSS Feed now customizable.
Permalinks included with RSS feeds
Editable Comments

Efficion Consulting Articles Module V3.1.5 and V3.2 Beta for DNN 3.x - Review

creativehost — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMT

This is a Free independent review of Efficion Consulting’s Articles Module V3.1.5 and V3.2 Beta for DotNetNuke® V3.1 by Lee Sykes.

Alongside the review are 9 Flash Video Walk Throughs / Tutorials totalling 41 minutes to demonstrate the modules features and possible uses.

Throughout these nine videos we work through practical examples of using the module with a music website.

Module Details

The Articles module is basically an extension of the core's Announcements module. It adds several useful features including: listing can include an automatically thumbnailed image, article archives, searching, and Article details with Rich Text Editing (or option to link to Internal or External Page).

Features:

Rich Text Editing: Users can create content through a Rich Text Editor
Search: Users can search all articles in the portal
Archive: Users can view all articles by clicking on the More Articles... link. Alternatively a custom link can be input to display a particular page or subset of articles
Images: An image can be displayed for each article. Thumbnails are automatically generated based on a configrable MaxWidth parameter
Featured Articles: allows users to mark an Article as Featured and the Article List has an option to display only featured articles
Admins can choose which fields they want displayed in the ListView
Site Wide option: The Article List can display Articles from anywhere in the portal, not just articles specific to the module in which they were created
Incorporates Efficion's Categories Module to allow for filtering by category

Scott McCulloch News Articles Module V00.04.09 for DNN 3.x - Review

creativehost — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 14:28:00 GMT

This is an independent review of Scott McCulloch's News Articles Module for DotNetNuke® V3.1.

Alongside the review are 6 Flash Video Tutorials totalling 30 minutes to demonstrate the modules features and possible uses.

Throughout these six videos we work through practical examples of using the module with a mountain bike website.

Module Details

This is a fully featured article manager for DotNetNuke. The module has evolved since version 1 of DotNetNuke, and has been used on many sites around the world.

Features:

Articles consist of:
- Title
- Categories (You can select multiple or none at all)
- Summary
- Publish & End Dates (Optional)
- Image (Optional)
- Any number of sub-pages
- Featured
Articles can be filtered, listed and displayed in various configurations
Search articles through a pageable interface
Security Roles within your portal can be given submission and approval capabilities
Approvers and Authors are notified (via email) when an article has been submitted / approved, which is configurable
Ratings and Comments
RSS feeds for:
- Category
- Author
- Top 25 most viewed
Layout is customized through html templates similar to portal skinning
Emails are customized through html templates
Articles can be added to any number of pages, (even the same instance), and have different filtering settings.