DotNetNuke ASCX Skinning and Open Web Studio Tutorials

DNN Creative have released issue 46 of the DotNetNuke Magazine

This issue takes a look at the professional's method for creating DotNetNuke skins, ASCX skinning. The main benefit of ASCX skinning, over other skinning methods, is that it is much quicker to create a skin in DotNetNuke using the ASCX method.

Other benefits include:

• Make changes live on the website without re-parsing or re-installing the skin
• Instantly see edits and changes you make to your skin code
• View at a glance all of a skin tokens properties
• Visual Web Developer Express will suggest the attributes that are available for each of the DotNetNuke tokens

We demonstrate all of these techniques and show you how to get started with ASCX skinning in DotNetNuke.

We also have part four in our series on the Open Web Studio Tutorials. This latest episode demonstrates how to add personalisation to the knowledgebase module using InterModule Communications and creating a ‘my saved articles’ module. We also demonstrate how to create a Tooltip using JQuery, how to change the “fetching data” message, how to enable Rich Text / HTML articles and how to create a multi-category selection for each knowledgebase article.

This issue concludes with our newest podcast covering the latest DotNetNuke News as well as more tips and tricks.

This issue comes complete with 11 videos and 1 podcast!

DotNetNuke News, Datasprings Dynamic Forms, DNN 5.1 Professional, Openforce '09, Snapsis PageBlaster

DotNetNuke Podcast.com are pleased to annouced the release of Episode 32.

This podcast covers the lastest DotNetNuke News, tips and tricks, including:

• DataSprings Release v3 of Dynamic Forms
• New Features
• DotNetNuke 5.1 Professional Edition
• OpenForce Dates
• Canada Bill Proposal to Force ISPs to give access to the Police without a warrant
• Microsoft Sue Ad Click Fraudsters
• Rich gets on Twitter and uses Spaz
• Google Wave
• Amazon Bookstore on DNN Creative
• DotNetNuke Backups are great!
• Snapsis PageBlaster Community Edition Testing
• Comparing Snapsis PageBlaster with the DotNetNuke Core Compression
• YSlow Firebug plugin for Firefox
• Combining CSS and Javascript files together
• How to reduce the CSS files sizes in DotNetNuke
• Web Developers Toolbar plugin for Firefox
• Undercover Lee
• Good support from Snapsis
• DNN Creative Testimonial

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!

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!

DataSprings Opt In Email and Email Deliverability

DNN Creative have released issue 42 of the DotNetNuke Magazine.

This issue issue demonstrates how to use DataSprings Opt In Email module and how email can be a powerful tool for obtaining and maintaining new clients and customers.

Firstly we demonstrate how you can use DataSprings Opt In Email module effectively, and how it can provide as much funtionality as a third party ESP (Email Service Provider).

Next we have an article on how to improve email deliverability and get the most out of your subscriber mailing list.The article takes you through the steps needed to create a high quality mailing list so you know you are getting your message out to the right people and you are maximising the exposure of your website.

The knowledge gained from this and previous issues will give you all the tools you need to create high quality email campaigns for marketing your websites.

For the final item in this issue we have our latest podcast from our DotNetNuke News series.

This issue comes complete with 10 videos and 1 podcast!

Search Modules, How to create Podcasts, plus SEO, Design and OpenForce Interviews

DNN Creative have released issue 38 of the DotNetNuke Magazine.

This month's issue focuses on Search. We look at the Core Search in DotNetNuke as well as review two Search Engine modules available for DNN.

We demonstrate:

• How to setup and configure the DotNetNuke Core Search
• How to ensure your content is indexed
• How to increase the search effectiveness of your site
• How to configure the Search Results
• How to set up a Google AdSense Affiliate ID and insert it into Google search results
• How to configure the Search Skin Object to suit the needs of your site

Next we concentrate on Podcasting within DotNetNuke. As an example we demonstrate how we setup the podcasts on dotnetnukepodcast.com.

This month we also have two search engine reviews:

• Xepient Solutions Open-Search Engine v2.0
• Venexus Search Engine and Software Collection

Both of these modules have gone through some thorough testing this month and we share the results with you in the Search Engine Module Reviews section.

Our ‘How Did They Build it..?’ series of interviews makes a return this month, this time we speak to Ilian Alexiev from LogicSpectrum.com covering two of his websites and the processes he took in creating them.

And to finish the issue off we have three Podcasts:
An interview with Tom Kraak from Seablick Consulting where we discuss SEO within DotNetNuke
DotNetNuke News, OpenForce Europe 08 Review
DotNetNuke News, October edition

This issue comes complete with 7 Video Tutorials, 2 Module Reviews and 3 Podcasts!

Alert Styles, FCK Editor Avanced, SEO Interview

DNN Creative have released issue 37 of the DotNetNuke Magazine.

This issue marks the start of Volume 4, that’s three full years of bringing you quality DotNetNuke Tutorials!

In this issue we have almost 2 hours of videos, an interview with Jeff Smith of Venexus talking about SEO, and more DNN Creative news podcasts.

The issue begins with four detailed tutorials on the FCK Editor:

• FCK Editor formatting style definitions
• FCK Editor HTML templates
• FCK Editor custom toolbars and security roles
• Further configuration options of the FCK Editor

We also introduce the concept of Alert Styles. Alert styles are used to help minimise bad practices and keep control of the content added to your DotNetNuke portals.

To finish off the issue we also have 3 podcasts, the first is an interview with Jeff Smith of Venexus where we discuss SEO within DotNetNuke, and then 2 podcasts with DotNetNuke News and Tips.

This issue comes complete with 14 video tutorials and 3 podcasts!

DotNetNuke Podcasts OpenForce

12 DotNetNuke podcasts have been made available for free download from the new DotNetNuke Podcast site.

These podcasts are interviews by Lee Sykes with the attendees of the DotNetNuke OpenForce conference in Las Vegas.

Interviews include:

• Nik Kalyani - DotNetNuke Core Team
• Tony Valenti and John Grange - PowerDNN Hosting
• Peter Donker - Bring2Mind
• Sebastian Leupold - DotNetNuke Core Team
• Attendees of the DotNetNuke presentations
• Tracy Wittenkeller, Malik Khan, Alex Delreal, and Brad Schafer
• Peter Schotman – Cestus Websites - DNN Menus
• Charles Nurse – DotNetNuke Core Team - DotNetNuke Performance
• Jon Henning – DotNetNuke Core Team
• Cathal Connolly – DotNetNuke Core Team
• Joe Brinkman – DotNetNuke Core Team
• Kelly Ford – DNN Dev - XMOD