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In these video tutorials we explain in detail configuring the User Settings page. This configures the view of the User Accounts page, as well as configuring further details for Login, Logout and Registration to a DotNetNuke portal.
The videos cover:
- Video 1 – Configuring the User Settings Page
- Video 2 – User Settings Advanced Functions
Total Time Length: 16mins
User Accounts and User Settings in DotNetNuke 4.3 and 3.3
In this video tutorial we demonstrate working with the User Accounts of a DotNetNuke portal for versions 4.3 and 3.3.
DotNetNuke 4.3 / 3.3 provides new facilities for managing the users in your DotNetNuke portal more easily.
This tutorial provides you with the essential information to enable you to easily manage and administer the registered users on your DotNetNuke portal. Ranging from searching, viewing, filtering users, editing and deleting users, managing security roles and maintaining a user’s account.
Time Length: 9mins
User Accounts new features in DotNetNuke 4.3 and 3.3
In this tutorial we demonstrate how to incorporate Google Adsense into DotNetNuke websites.
In particular, the aim was to build a DotNetNuke website which would allow an administrator with little or no experience of DotNetNuke to:
- Easily choose what type of Adsense ad they wish to display on the page, for example a square ad or banner ad
- Easily choose the location on the page for the Adsense ad
- and all of the Adsense ads need to blend within the text content of the page
In these 4 video tutorials we walk you through, step by step, how to integrate Google Adsense with DotNetNuke skins. We demonstrate how to incorporate Adsense into the
Free Simple Red Leaf CSS skin. You can see an example of the Adsense skin in action by watching the introduction video below. The code is available for download with the videos.
The videos cover:
- Video 1 – Introduction and demonstration
- Video 2 – Skin setup and Google Adsense setup
- Video 3 – Adding Adsense square ads and blending with the text
- Video 4 – Adsense coloured containers and banner ads
Total Time Length: 33mins
View video 1 to watch an introduction to the tutorial (4.4MB)
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Incorporating Google Adsense into DotNetNuke
In this tutorial we demonstrate how to create 3 horizontal CSS menus using the
HouseMenu created by Tim Rolands from the House of Nuke.
We walk you through step by step, editing the
free Simple Red Leaf CSS skin, and convert it to use horizontal menus. All of the skin code is available for download with the videos.
The menus
We explain how to create a:
Single horizontal menu that just displays the root items of the menu
Horizontal menu with a sub menu
Horizontal menu that uses images for the buttons with a sub menu
The videos cover:
- Video 1 – Introduction and demonstration
- Video 2 – Creating the layout initial configuration for a horizontal CSS menu
- Video 3 – Styling the horizontal root menu
- Video 4 – Configuring the horizontal sub menu
- Video 5 – Styling the sub-menu and setting up for all root menu items
- Video 6 – Pros and Cons, Creating a submenu using images to create a button effect
- Video 7 – Styling the image menu
Total Time Length: 65mins
View video 1 to watch an introduction to the tutorial (3.8MB)
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Creating Horizontal CSS menus in DotNetNuke using the HouseMenu
How many times have you wanted to use a font other than the generic fonts that we are forced to use for web pages?
This video tutorial (54 mins) demonstrates a technique which allows you to use any font you require for your text headings.
The user does not need the font installed on their machine.
Some designers use the technique of using images for their headings just so that they can incorporate different fonts into their designs. The problem with this is that you need to create a new image for every single title that you wish to create. This is a chore and defeats the object of using a dynamic content management system such as DotNetNuke.
Welcome to sIFR (Scalable Inman Flash Replacement). sIFR has been around for a while now, but there are minimal DotNetNuke sites implementing this technique. Using sIFR can give your website the extra design edge and help you to move away from the generic DotNetNuke designs that you tend to see.
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This tutorial discusses the use of header tags and semantic code within DotNetNuke skins.
Using header tags can increase accessibility, enabling for instance speech browsers to understand the content of your pages, as well as the added benefit of enabling search engines to easily index your content. Header tags allow search engines to identify the topic of your website page, which should improve your search results.
The overall theme here is to allow various browser types / search engines to easily understand and interpret the content within your website pages and to create semantic code.
We analyze 5 pro websites for their design techniques and then apply these techniques to a DotNetNuke skin.
This tutorial is available as a 40 page PDF book.
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The Free DotNetNuke Skinning Toolkit is an additional resource website that has been created by DNN Creative Magazine as issue 10 of the magazine.
The 98 page Skinning Toolkit demonstrates all of the skin classes within DotNetNuke so that you can easily view, search and learn how to style the various elements within a DotNetNuke skin.
In particular learn how to style the Solpart Menu, TreeMenu, Module Settings Menu, FileManager, Wizard, Main DNN classes (breadcrumbs, login links etc.)
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One of the regular problems skin designers come across when creating their own skins is un-explained styles appearing in their designs.
This tutorial explains the various CSS files that are used within DotNetNuke and how inheritance works between each of the CSS files for styling your DotNetNuke skins.
Once you understand inheritance you can reduce the amount of code required to create a DNN skin and therefore decrease the load time of a page.
Free example CSS files are included for download.
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