DotNetNuke tutorials, tips and tricks

Saturday, July 29, 2006

$243 DotNetNuke Competition Prizes

Speerio File Manager Pro Module ($199) and a Year Subscription to DNN Creative ($44) for the Flash Game Competition Giveaway.

This month Speerio have kindly donated their File Manager Pro Module ($199) as a prize to DNN Creative.

Achieve the top score playing either Tetris (for the File Manager Pro module from Speerio) or PacMan (for the DNN Creative year subscription) and enter your DNN Creative username into the scoreboard. The top score at the end of the month wins.

The closing date for the competition is 17:00 GMT on the 17th August 2006.

If you are already a subscriber to DNN Creative you will receive a year extension on your current subscription.

No cash alternative is provided.

Please make sure you are registered on DNN Creative with a valid email as we will use your username and email address to contact you if you win the competition.

July competition winners

Congratulations to Tony Nguyen who has won a free subscription to DNN Creative Magazine and Simon Mason who won a Gold Subscription to Smart-Thinker.

Tony achieved a high score of 137,660 on PacMan and Simon achieved a high score of 5,875 on Snake.

Hope you enjoy the games!

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DNN Creative Magazine provides DotNetNuke tutorials, articles, reviews all for the DotNetNuke web designer. An issue is released each month. Stats: 134 Videos & 5 MP3 Interviews

DotNetNuke Skinning Toolkit demonstrates all of the skin classes to help you quickly and easily create DotNetNuke skins.

Thursday, July 20, 2006

DotNetNuke 4.3.3 and 3.3.3 Final Release out now!

Yes that's correct, the final release of the latest DNN versions are now out!

These should be stable versions, but I have not tested them yet.

You can download them from the main DNN site:
http://www.dotnetnuke.com/tabid/125/default.aspx

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DNN Creative Magazine provides DotNetNuke tutorials, articles, reviews all for the DotNetNuke web designer. An issue is released each month. Stats: 134 Videos & 5 MP3 Interviews

DotNetNuke Skinning Toolkit demonstrates all of the skin classes to help you quickly and easily create DotNetNuke skins.

Monday, July 17, 2006

DotNetNuke and Adsense

I've just developed some really simple, straightforward techniques for incorporating Google Adsense with DotNetNuke that are free and do not require purchasing a module etc. - In fact the techniques work much better and more flexible than using a DNN module to display Google Adsense.

I will be documenting this and releasing it as a video tutorial in the next issue of the magazine.

This is the test area website: DotNetNuke Adsense

- The site is not yet complete but I am adding a link in here so that Google can index the site and display adsense ads, currently Google has not indexed the site and so the ads are not displaying...

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DNN Creative Magazine provides DotNetNuke tutorials, articles, reviews all for the DotNetNuke web designer. An issue is released each month. Stats: 134 Videos & 5 MP3 Interviews

DotNetNuke Skinning Toolkit demonstrates all of the skin classes to help you quickly and easily create DotNetNuke skins.

Wednesday, July 05, 2006

DNN Creative Magazine - Issue 11 – An in-depth look at Headings and Styling (sIFR)

July Issue 11 Released

I am pleased to announce that issue 11 of DNN Creative Magazine has been released.

In this issue we take an in-depth look into the use of headings within DotNetNuke websites.

As an introduction to headings we have created a 40 page PDF which analyses various professional websites for the best practice use of headings and semantic code within a web page. We then offer suggestions on how you can implement these practices within your own DotNetNuke websites.

Following this we have created a detailed series of videos which explore sIFR (Scalable Inman Flash Replacement). sIFR allows you to style the titles within a DotNetNuke portal using any font that you require. This is a very powerful technique which can completely transform the look of your skin designs.

This issue comes complete with 7 videos and a 40 page PDF.


Tutorials:

Skinning


semantic code and header tags in dotnetnuke pdf book
Semantic Code and Header Tags in DotNetNuke Skins (40 page PDF)

sIFR and DotNetNuke

sIFR and DotNetNuke – Video Tutorial
(7 videos – 54mins)

Video Tutorial
Watch the introduction video (2.9MB)



Previous issues:


Issue 11 - An in-depth look at Headings and Styling
Issue 10 - The DotNetNuke Skinning Toolkit
Issue 9 - Advanced Content Styling Techniques and CSS
Issue 8 - CSS for Styling and Layout in DotNetNuke
Issue 7 – Developing and enhancing skins
Issues 5 & 6 - Working with skins
Issue 4 – Installation Essentials
Issue 3 - The Really Simple Issue (RSS)
Issue 2 - A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words
Issue 1 - The World At Your Fingertips



If you have any suggestions for the magazine, or requests, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Many thanks,


Lee Sykes
DNN Creative Magazine

View Issue 11

PS. Play PacMan to win a free subscription to DNN Creative Magazine or Snake to win a 8+ modules from Smart-Thinker.


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DNN Creative Magazine provides DotNetNuke tutorials, articles, reviews all for the DotNetNuke web designer. An issue is released each month. Stats: 134 Videos & 5 MP3 Interviews

DotNetNuke Skinning Toolkit demonstrates all of the skin classes to help you quickly and easily create DotNetNuke skins.