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Tuesday, August 22, 2006

$79 DotNetNuke Module and Subscription Competition

Ventrian Systems yearly module subscription ($35) and a year subscription to DNN Creative ($44) to give away.

Simply login and fill out the survey. You will be automatically entered into the competition. Two winners will be selected at random at the end of the month, one for the Ventrian systems subscription and one for the DNN Creative subscription.

The closing date for the competition is 17:00 GMT on the 19th September 2006.

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

August competition winners

Congratulations to Val Lusis who has won a free subscription to DNN Creative Magazine and Jachin Crawford who the Speerio File Manager Pro Module.

Val achieved a high score of 148,710 on PacMan and Jachin achieved a high score of 797,734 on Tetris.


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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: 145 Videos & 5 MP3 Interviews

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

Thursday, August 10, 2006

Issue 12 – CSS Horizontal Menus and Google Adsense

August Issue 12 Released

I am pleased to announce that issue 12 of DNN Creative Magazine has been released.

In this Issue we build on the previous skinning tutorials from issues 5 to 11.

We create horizontal CSS menus and demonstrate step by step creating 3 different horizontal CSS menus using the HouseMenu.

We provide an introduction to Google Adsense as an easy way to monetize your DotNetNuke websites. We demonstrate how you can use the CSS techniques developed over the previous issues to easily incorporate Google Adsense into DotNetNuke websites. This covers blending the ads with the text content of the page and easily placing the ads anywhere you require within the page.

This issue comes complete with 11 videos.

Tutorials:









CSS Menus

CSS Menus
How to create Horizontal CSS menus in DotNetNuke using the HouseMenu
(7 videos – 65mins)

Watch the introduction video (3.8MB)
Google Adsense

Google Adsense
Introduction to Google Adsense, how to easily monetize your website

Incorporating Google Adsense into DotNetNuke Skins
(4 videos – 33mins)

Watch the introduction video (4.4MB)

Downloads: To save you time, all of the videos for each issue are available as a single zip download from each issue page.

Download the videos from here:

Issue 12 - CSS Horizontal Menus and Google Adsense
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, this magazine is for you.


Many thanks,


Lee Sykes
DNN Creative Magazine

View Issue 12

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Stats: There are now 145 videos on DNN Creative Magazine.


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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: 145 Videos & 5 MP3 Interviews

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

Friday, August 04, 2006

4.3 and 3.3 - Upgrade asap - Vulnerability in DotNetNuke could allow access to user profile details

I found this info on the DotNetNuke site, it recommends that you upgrade to the latest point release for 3.3 and 4.3 as a severe security issue has been found - details below

http://dotnetnuke.com/SecurityPolicy/SecurityBulletins/tabid/976/Default.aspx

Published: August 02, 2006

Version: 1.0

Maximum Severity Rating: Critical

Background

For the 3.3.3/4.3.3 releases of DotNetNuke, the membership/roles/provider components were significantly overhauled to allow better granularity of control, and to allow us to make a number of enhancements.

Issue Summary

During the process of rewriting the code to extend the Profile component, an authorization issue was introduced that could allow a user (including anonymous users) to access another users profile.
Due to the seriousness of this issue, further details are not available, users of 3.3.3/4.3.3 are recommended to upgrade to 3.3.4/4.3.4.

Mitigating factors

N/A

Affected DotNetNuke versions

  • 3.3.0, 3.3.1, 3.3.2, 3.3.3, 4.3.0, 4.3.1, 4.3.2 ,4.3.3

Non-Affected Versions:

  • All other versions

Fix(s) for issue

To fix this problem, you are recommended to update to the latest version of DotNetNuke (3.3.4/4.3.4 at time of writing)


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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: 145 Videos & 5 MP3 Interviews

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