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In this tutorial we demonstrate how to install DotNetNuke v4.8.1 to Windows Vista. You can install DotNetNuke to Vista home premium, business, and ultimate editions.
We walk you through how to configure and install the required programmes for installing DotNetNuke using a fresh installation of Windows Vista Ultimate, once we have setup the required programmes we then demonstrate how to install DotNetNuke to Vista Ultimate.
The videos cover:
- Video 1 - Introduction, configuring Vista, installing IIS and downloading SQL Server
- Video 2 - Installing SQL Server Express
- Video 3 - Configuring IIS
- Video 4 - Installing DotNetNuke and initial configuration
Total Time Length: 33mins
In this tutorial we demonstrate how to setup and use Microsoft’s Virtual PC 2007. Virtual PC is available for free download and it allows you to run multiple operating systems at the same time within one physical computer.
Virtual PC virtualizes the hardware of a physical computer; this means that a Virtual PC uses a standard hardware configuration which is not reliant on the hardware of the host computer. Therefore you can transfer a Virtual PC to another host computer without any software driver issues.
There are many possibilities for improving your working environment by using Virtual PC and in this tutorial we provide a quick start guide to Virtual PC.
The videos cover:
- Video 1 - Introduction and installation of Virtual PC
- Video 2 - Installation of Windows Vista to Virtual PC
Total Time Length: 17mins
In this tutorial we demonstrate how to use the DotNetNuke Store core module. We demonstrate how to set up a store module that sells mountain bikes and how to configure the module to sell those products via PayPal.
The store module consists of five individual modules. We cover each of these modules in detail.
The videos cover:
- Video 1 - Introduction to the store modules and initial configuration
- Video 2 - PayPal gateway provider, tax and shipping, categories
- Video 3 - Adding products, offers, initial configuration for displaying products
- Video 4 - Store account, reviews, test purchasing a product using PayPal sandbox
- Video 5 - Managing orders, viewing emails, reviews, shipping setup
- Video 6 - Module styling, CSS, fixing errors
- Video 7 - Configuring display of Store Catalog module
- Video 8 - Working with templates to change the layout and style of the store
Total Time Length: 72mins
In this tutorial we demonstrate how to setup the PayPal Sandbox test environment. This allows you to create test PayPal buyer and seller accounts which you can then use to test the selling of products within DotNetNuke.
For instance, if you are using the DotNetNuke store core module, there is an option within the admin settings to use the PayPal sandbox, if you tick this option the store will ask for payment via the sandbox rather than the main PayPal website. This allows you to log in as a test user and send dummy test payments.
This is an essential technique for your ecommerce toolbox.
Time Length: 13mins
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In this video tutorial we demonstrate how to style the search box in DotNetNuke skins. We walk you through how we applied the styling to the search box in the free ‘
internet sharing’ skin.
This covers how we expanded the width of the search box, how to use a graphic for the search box, how to style the text that the search box uses, how to style the search link as a button and how to replace the search link with an image.
In this tutorial we demonstrate how to use Token Replacement which is available for DotNetNuke versions 4.6 and above.
Token replacement allows you to display information such as the username, date, portal title etc. and you can display this information directly within the text of your modules.
Token Replacement is currently available for the Text / HTML, Newsletter and User Defined Table (UDT) core modules, and it is likely that it will be included in other core modules in future releases as well.
Time Length: 13mins
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In this tutorial we demonstrate how to use the User Defined Table (UDT) module. The UDT module allows you to create a custom table and store records within that table.
The table can include sorting of columns, paging, filtering by content and search. It also includes some powerful features such as the use of calculated columns, token replacement and layout templates through the use of XSL transformation files.
The videos cover:
- Video 1 - Installation, creating a basic table
- Video 2 - Adding records, sorting, creating a second UDT table
- Video 3 - Calculated columns, advanced options
- Video 4 - Permissions, users adding content
- Video 5 - Advanced options for data types
- Video 6 - Display settings
- Video 7 - Search, predefined XSL transformation files (templates)
- Video 8 - Editing and auto generation of XSL transformation files
- Video 9 - Further XSL transformation file options and tokens
Total Time Length: 76mins
This tutorial is part 2 of the How to create a DotNetNuke skin from an XHTML template tutorial.
In Part 2 of the tutorial we cover how to create the containers, semantically coding the content, styling and formatting the content, overriding the DotNetNuke default classes, how to easily add the additional skin layout variations, and how to setup and create a print.css file so that you can style your own print layout of the skin.
The videos cover:
- Video 1 - Creating the containers
- Video 2 - Text styling and overriding the default DotNetNuke styles
- Video 3 - Styling the header tags
- Video 4 - Styling content based on the content pane location
- Video 5 - Creating layout variations
- Video 6 - Creating an additional styled menu
- Video 7 - How to create a print layout (print.css)
Total Time Length: 60mins
In this tutorial we demonstrate how to convert a free open source XHTML pure CSS template into a DotNetNuke skin.
We demonstrate how to convert the andreas01 template created by Andreas Viklund.
This tutorial is in two parts, part 1 covers how to transfer the structure of an XHTML template into a DotNetNuke skin and how to adapt it to create the content panes, the menu and various DotNetNuke tokens.
The videos cover:
- Video 1 - Introduction and preparations
- Video 2 - Creation of content panes
- Video 3 - Login links and packaging skin
- Video 4 - How to fix layout display problems
- Video 5 - How to create the menu
- Video 6 - Adding the search box and validating the skin
Total Time Length: 52mins
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In this tutorial we explore the development and deployment of a DotNetNuke website that is already online. - How to synchronise a local installation with a live installation.
In this tutorial we demonstrate how to add updates to the local version and apply those updates to the live version while keeping both versions completely synchronised and without taking the live site offline and vice versa.
We demonstrate how you can synchronize a live hosted website using SQL Server 2005 with a localhost installation using SQL Server Express.
The videos cover:
- Video 1 - Introduction, Setup, Comparing Databases, Viewing Data
- Video 2 - Editing the local installation and comparing with the live installation
- Video 3 - Synching local database to live and live to local
- Video 4 - Synching multiple simultaneous edits on live and local installations
Total Time Length: 33mins