DotNetNuke tutorials, tips and tricks

Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Markit Modules Slideshow and PageEar, DNN Stuff's Module Rotator, Monitter4DNN and Open Web Studio Tutorials for DotNetNuke

DNN Creative have released issue 45 of the DotNetNuke Magazine.

This issue starts with Markit Modules Slideshow module. This module is useful for displaying your featured articles and products as an image, text content or you can even display an existing module within a slideshow in a similar manner to the msn.com home page.

Still with Markit Modules, the next tutorial covers the free PageEar module which allows you to place Page Peel advertisements on your DotNetNuke websites.

Next, we show you how to use DNN Stuff’s Module Rotator. This module allows you to rotate the content of multiple modules in the space of a single module. You can configure the module rotator to rotate modules each time the page loads, or you can also configure a timer to rotate through modules in milliseconds.

Following this we explore Joe Brinkman's free Monitter for DNN module. This simple module allows you to easily display a real-time feed of twitter search results on your website.

Also released with this issue is the much anticipated third part of our series on How to Build a Public Knowledge Base Module using R2i’s Open Web Studio by Paul Deschenes. This instalment explores how to build the user search page for searching knowledge base articles.

We show you how to:
  • Implement record paging
  • Column sorting
  • Create a categories module
  • Create a print function for the articles
  • Add an articles rating feature
Finally, we have a podcast covering the latest DotNetNuke News.

This issue comes complete with 14 videos and 1 podcast!

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Sunday, April 05, 2009

OnyakTech Sigma Live, DNNStuff Aggregator and Open Web Studio Tutorials for DotNetNuke

DNN Creative have released issue 43 of the DOtNetNuke Magazine.

In this very special issue we have reached 400 video tutorials!
This issue, also brings a new video tutor, Paul Deschenes who will be providing a six part series on how to build a Knowledge Base Module using Open Web Studio.

We start off this issue with a tutorial on the OnyakTech SigmaLive Module, which provides Live Chat functionality for your DotNetNuke website. It allows you to engage in a 1-to-1 chat with your website visitors in real-time and it allows you to instantly provide live help, live support, visitor tracking, and proactive sales for your products and services and can be configured as a chat room.

Next we show you how to use DNN Stuff’s Aggregator Module. This is a really flexible module as it acts as a tabbed container or can also be used as a localization container for one or more modules, allowing you to combine several modules together from a page into a tabbed interface and can also display RSS feeds.

Following this we have part one of six for the new series of tutorials on How to Build a Public Knowledge Base Module with R2i’s Open Web Studio by Paul Deschenes. This series will introduce the beginner to Open Web Studio and demonstrate how to create a fully functional web application with little or no coding experience required. This first tutorial in the series provides an introduction to Open Web Studio, installation, the key components, and building your first components with Quick Builder.

To complete the issue we have two podcasts from the DotNetNuke News series.

This issue comes complete with 14 videos and 2 podcasts!

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