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In this issue we demonstrate how to work with and create your own page templates. We have discovered an easy technique for creating page templates so that you do not require any programming skills to create complex templates.

Page templates are a powerful time saving tool. If you have certain modules that you regularly need to add to a page, you can do this automatically with a page template. If you have content in a Text / HTML module that you always use as a starting point, you can have default content added to a module through a page template.

Following page templates we demonstrate the new page management functions in the latest versions of DotNetNuke. This covers username permissions and various page copying functions.

This issue comes complete with 6 videos.


Tutorials:

	How to create Page Templates in DotNetNuke (4 videos – 32mins)
	Page Management – New Functions DotNetNuke v4.5.x (2 videos – 19mins)

View issue 24 to download all of the videos in one zip file

We have now completed the changeover to the new pure CSS skin for DNN Creative, so for issue 23 we have released 5 free pure CSS XHTML compliant skins for DotNetNuke.

These skins are open source html templates which we have converted to DotNetNuke skins.

Viewing the code from a variety of designers helps to improve your CSS skills and learn multiple techniques for manipulating the layouts and styling of CSS skins.

 

Free CSS Skins:

	andreas 01
	andreas 09
	Summer Breeze
	FreeStyle
	Curiously Green

View issue 23 to download all of the skins in one zip file

In this issue we demonstrate how to transfer a localhost DotNetNuke installation to a live website and vice versa.

This is an essential technique to learn for successfully working with DotNetNuke installations on a live hosted website and a localhost installation.

Following this we demonstrate how to use a find and replace SQL procedure to find and replace any content within the text / html module across an entire DotNetNuke installation. This is a very powerful technique for solving problems such as changing the URLs of images after transferring a DotNetNuke installation.

This issue comes complete with 11 videos.


Tutorials:

	How to backup a live hosted DotNetNuke website and restore it to a localhost installation (SQL server 2005 to SQL server 2005 express) (4 videos - 35mins)
	How to transfer a localhost DotNetNuke installation to a live website (SQL server 2005 express to SQL server 2005) (4 videos – 33mins)
	Find and Replace SQL queries for DotNetNuke (To fix problems after transferring a localhost database to a live website and other useful functions) (3 videos – 25mins)

View issue 22 to download all of the videos in one zip file

In this issue we demonstrate working with the site logs and event logs in DotNetNuke.

It is essential to correctly configure the logs to ensure they do not affect the performance of your DNN installation. We walk you through configuration and maintenance techniques and also demonstrate the scheduler and SQL tools in DotNetNuke.

Following this we cover the FAQ and media core modules.

This issue comes complete with 8 videos.


Tutorials:

	Site logs, Event logs and Scheduler (Viewing, Configuring, Reducing size and Preventative Maintenance) (3 videos - 34mins)
Core Modules:	DotNetNuke FAQ Module (2 videos – 22mins)
	DotNetNuke Media module (3 videos – 18mins)

In this issue we demonstrate how to install DotNetNuke v4.5 to Windows XP Professional, Home Edition, and also how to install the source code.

We walk you through step by step how to configure a barebones installation of Windows before installing DotNetNuke as quite often this is the hardest part of installing DotNetNuke.

We also continue the XHTML compliance tutorials from issue 19 where we demonstrate further changes to enable an XHTML compliant DotNetNuke; we discuss these changes for both versions 4.4 and 4.5.

This issue comes complete with 9 videos.


Tutorials:

Skinning	How to install DotNetNuke 4.5 to Windows XP Pro with IIS (3 videos - 32min)
	How to install DotNetNuke to Windows XP Home (Using VWD) (2 videos - 19min)
	How to install DotNetNuke v4.5 Source Code to Windows XP Professional (2 videos – 15min)
	XHTML Compliant DotNetNuke 4.4 and 4.5 - part 2 (2 videos – 17min)