March Issue 7 Released
I am pleased to announce that issue 7 of DNN Creative Magazine has been released.
In this issue we have released a free pure CSS skin ‘Simple Red Leaf’ which has many advantages over the traditional table based skin, such as: accessibility, flexibility, print view, search engine friendly, small file size, etc.
Alongside the CSS skin are supporting documents to help you get started with creating your own CSS skins, covering techniques for improving skin and module coding standards, minimising CSS code, enabling browsers to operate in standards compliance mode and techniques for testing skins.
Following some of the techniques developed in this CSS skin we have documented how to add some of the features to your own skins. This includes how to enable skins to use resizable text within Internet Explorer and how to replace the Solpart menu with the HouseMenu.
These elements are demonstrated in our series of how to build a website using DotNetNuke.
Laurence Neville has also taken the time to share his experiences of creating a DotNetNuke website in Hebrew, which raises some interesting issues, such as setting the text to display from right to left.
This issue comes complete with 10 video tutorials and a free skin.
Tutorials:
Best Practices
XHTML and best practice coding for skins and modules in DotNetNuke - Free
Testing a DotNetNuke skin - Free
CSS Shorthand code in DotNetNuke - Free
Skinning
Quirks, Standard Compliance modes and Doc Types - Free
How to install and configure the House of Nuke menu for a DotNetNuke skin - Video Tutorial
(4 videos, skin and container - 25min)
How to remove the Solpart menu from a container - Video Tutorial - Free
(4min)
How to create resizable text within DotNetNuke - Video Tutorial
(5 Videos, skin and container - 50min)
Free Skin:
Interview:
Special Thanks:
To everyone who has subscribed to the magazine, it’s appreciated, without your support I could not produce this magazine.
I would also like to thank everyone who has made a donation to the Red Cross by purchasing one of the free videos through snowcovered.
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Website enhancements:
Mirror server added: Responding to requests, we have increased the performance of the video downloads. We have added a mirror server, so you can choose to download from a server in America or the UK.
Downloads: To save you time, each issue will now have all of the videos for that issue as a single zip download on the main issue page.
Credit Cards: We now accept credit cards for payment of a subscription to DNN Creative Magazine. If you wish to pay via credit card rather than PayPal, you can purchase a subscription through Snowcovered.
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If you have any suggestions for the magazine, or requests, please do not hesitate to contact me, this magazine is for you.
Many thanks,
Lee Sykes
DNN Creative Magazine
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