I would like to vote on videos on how to use these new features on the new DNN version along with how to create new widgets.

thanks for the feedback, its on the list

How can you create a countdown widget in DNN 5?

Paul Scarlett has a nice, very inexpensive, module called T-Minus at tressleworks.ca.

That said, you can find also sorts of javascript and jquery code to do this.  Mostly, you can paste these into a Text/HTML module (in HTML mode) if you know javascript.

Some of us are newbies at Javascript. That's why I was asking about this. If it would not be too much to ask, could you give us help on, say a countdown widget, whether Javascripting or jquery...it would be appreciated.

I think this also cons utes a request to do a thread here on widgets...?!

Regards!

Without trying to dodge the question, there are some good javascript tutorials available on the web.  Google "javascript tutorial."

If you google "javascript countdown" or similar, you will also find some decent examples.

These days, though, you might want to replace "javascript" with "jquery."  Jquery is a javascript library -- and a quite extensive one -- that simplifies the use of javascript.  Support of jquery is built into DotNetNuke.  There is a nice example here.

There is a new "free" skin object available that is easy to setup and use. You just need to become more familiar with your skin files and your DNN directory structure.

If your going to use jquery, you have to enable jquery in you Host settings. You can find lot's of information on how to do this with a simple search.

Once you have the skin object installed you can add your ".js" files to a folder in your portal root and reference them in your skin ".ascx" file using the sking object. Then it just as simple as using a text/html module to copy and past the remaining html code. This method applies to both javascript and jquery.

http://ultimateskinobject.codeplex.com/
http://plugins.jquery.com/
http://www.dnncreative.com/Tutorials/SkinningTutorials/DotNetNukeASCXSkinning/tabid/504/Default.aspx