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Once you have bought your own domain name (ie. www.dnncreative.com) and your hosting package, you need to point your domain name from your domain registrar to your hosting providers’ servers in order to access your web page.
It's important that you do this as soon as possible as it can take 24 to 48 hours for the new settings to take effect across the internet.
In this tutorial we have purchased our domain name using 1&1.com and we are going to point the domain to the serverintellect.com servers.
Note: each domain registrar will adjust the nameserver settings in a slightly different way, but the basic principles that are demonstrated here will apply for all domain registrars.
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(and earn a 10% referral bonus!)
Snowcovered.com sell DotNetNuke® related products from Module and Skin developers. Snowcovered.com also provide a 10% referral bonus scheme. If one of your website visitors clicks on a link to snowcovered.com and makes a purchase, you receive 10% of the customer sales.
Following a request, Snowcovered.com agreed to create some RSS feeds so that I could easily display their latest products on DNN Creative Magazine and receive a 10% commission on sales.
This tutorial demonstrates how to add your own referral ID to the RSS feed that Snowcovered.com provide and how to display this feed on your own website.
This tutorial uses the free News Feeds (RSS) core module. You do not need to purchase any modules to set this up.
If you use the Orizonti Nuke Feeds module, there are also templates at the end of the tutorial especially for Nuke Feeds.
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Firefox Live Bookmarks in DotNetNuke
Some RSS aggregators have the capability of finding an RSS feed on a web page and making it easy for the user to subscribe to it
An example of this can be seen in the Firefox browser, whenever the browser discovers an RSS feed, it displays an orange icon in the bottom right of the browser window.
If you click on the orange Firefox icon it will give you the option to subscribe to the RSS feed.
This tutorial explains how to enable RSS auto-discovery aggregation in DotNetNuke.
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This free video tutorial demonstrates how to install a module to DotNetNuke®.
This installation tutorial is the standard method of installing a module. Some third party modules require special installation procedures, so always ensure you read any additional installation instructions that are included with a module.
The tutorial demonstrates downloading the blog module from the dotnetnuke.com website and how to install it to your DotNetNuke portal.
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This tutorial explains how to display flash (games) within DotNetNuke®.
You can see an example of this in action on the games pages that are used in DNN Creative Magazine.
This tutorial can be applied to any flash file that you wish to incorporate into your pages, not just flash games.
There are two options available. You can either purchase a module which will automatically play flash files for you, which you can easily configure, or using a small amount of code, you can embed any flash file you require for free.
We demonstrate how to use the free method.
The tutorial does not change any of the core code in DotNetNuke and you do not need to understand flash programming to follow this tutorial. All you need is a basic understanding of how DotNetNuke works, eg. How to add a module to a page, etc.
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This tutorial covers How to create an RSS feed using DotNetNuke®, complete with a 5minute video.
It explores:
- The various methods available for creating an RSS feed, from free to premium modules
- Choosing the most suitable modules for your RSS needs
Enabling an RSS feed within the DotNetNuke core modules works the same for all of the modules, this video tutorial demonstrates:
Enabling RSS Syndication in the DNN Announcements module - Video
This video demonstrates how to enable RSS Syndication within the DotNetNuke core modules. Looking at the announcements module, how to enable syndication, a demonstration of how the feed will be displayed within a website and within an on-line RSS reader such as pluck.com
Time Length: (5min 0secs)
File Size: 3.8MB
The tutorial then progresses to discuss:
- What are the other RSS options available?
- Using Images and Links in RSS feeds
- Promotion - ‘Blog and Ping’ what is it anyway?
Don’t put it off, start today. The use of RSS is rapidly growing and sooner, rather than later, the users of your website will be demanding your content via RSS…
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There are many advantages to displaying RSS content from other websites, blogs, etc.
This article discusses displaying RSS feeds in a DotNetNuke® portal, covering:
How to display RSS feeds in a DotNetNuke portal
Discusses the options available for displaying RSS feeds in a DotNetNuke portal, covering the free News Feed (RSS) module and the opportunities and benefits that the premium RSS reader modules can provide.
How to find RSS feeds suitable for displaying on your website
Provides a list of resources and ideas of how to find an RSS feed most suitable and finely targeted to your needs.
Why should you display RSS feeds on your website?
Discusses the benefits RSS feeds can bring to your site and the opportunities it can provide for improving the quality and user experience of the visitors to your website.
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This DotNetNuke® Video Tutorial demonstrates the DotNetNuke® Core News Feed (RSS) module, covering:
- Adding the module to a page
- Selecting an RSS feed to display from moreover.com
- Adding an RSS feed to the module
- Uploading an XSL transformation style sheet to format the RSS feed
Time length: 6:01 min
Download Size: 4.4MB
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Adding an RSS Feed to the standard DotNetNuke® RSS News Feed module is an easy process, the confusion begins once you have added the feed and your page doesn’t display in the way you intended. Quite often it displays the actual HTML tags rather than a nicely formatted page.
In order to display an RSS feed in the formatting you require; you need to use a XSL transformation file (named News Feed Style Sheet in the RSS News Feed Module).
This tutorial will allow you to easily set up the display of your RSS feeds. It provides 6 example XSL transformation files for you to download.
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This free tutorial discusses the various options available when using images within a DotNetNuke® portal.
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