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.