DotNetNuke tutorials, tips and tricks

Friday, May 19, 2006

Free Competition for Bi4ce Nukedk module and DNN Creative Subscription

Nukedk module from Bi4ce ($69) and a free Subscription to DNN Creative ($39) for this months Flash Game Competition Giveaway.

Another game competition to take you away from work ;-) …

This month Bi4ce have kindly donated their Nukedk module as a prize to DNN Creative.

Achieve the top score playing either Invaders (for Nukedk) or PacMan (for DNN Creative 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 19th June 2006

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

Hope you enjoy the games!


PS. We have updated the main tutorials page to improve the navigation of the site. You can now view all of the tutorials as a quick list.

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Stats: There are now 127 videos on DNN Creative Magazine.

DotNetNuke Competition Winners for May

Congratulations to Thomas Groman and Simon Mason who have won a free year subscription to DNN Creative Magazine.

Competition was fierce on the flash game scoreboards:

Thomas achieved a high score of 227,710 on Asteroids and Simon achieved a high score of 140,050 on PacMan.

Hope you both find the DotNetNuke video tutorials useful and the next competition is to be announced shortly!

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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: 127 Videos & 5 MP3 Interviews

Thursday, May 18, 2006

DotNetNuke no.1 CMS on Squidoo

DotNetNuke is listed at the top of the CMS list on Squidoo. I was one of the lucky ones to get access to Squidoo when it was in the beta stage and built a DotNetNuke Lens.

It consists of an overview of DotNetNuke along with links to various DotNetNuke resources such as forums, blogs, jobs, latest news and tutorials.

Here you can check out the DotNetNuke Squidoo lens and here is a list of the various CMS Systems listed on Squidoo.

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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: 127 Videos & 5 MP3 Interviews

Tuesday, May 16, 2006

DotNetNuke Tutorials Updated

We have updated the navigation for the tutorials on DNN Creative Magazine to make it much easier to see at a glance which tutorials are available.

Here is a list of the tutorials on DNN Creative. There are further video tutorials in the reviews section which cover premium modules. You can also view a list of the tutorials with a short description and the links on the left hand side allow you to filter the tutorials by category.



Beginners Tutorials

Title Videos Length (mins) Size (MB)
An Introduction to the Principles of DotNetNuke 0 0 0
Quick Start Guide to DotNetNuke 3 40:17 35.9
Basic Introduction to Working with Pages in DotNetNuke 1 8:25 6.1
How to optimize an image before uploading it to your website 1 3:18 6.1
Working with Images in DotNetNuke 0 0 0
Beginners html guide for DotNetNuke 0 0 0
How to adjust your Nameserver settings 0 0 0
Installing DotNetNuke 3.2 to a website hosting provider 2 30:03 22.4
How to upgrade DotNetNuke from v3.x to v3.2 on a live website 1 20:04 16.9
How to install a module to DotNetNuke 1 3:07 2.4
How to Install a Skin and Container in DotNetNuke 2 18:21 16.1
How to use Skins and Containers in DotNetNuke 1 16:09 16
How to install the FCKEditor 1 7:08 8.5


Administrators Tutorials

Title Videos Length (mins) Size (MB)
DotNetNuke Users & Setting the Registration Options 0 0 0
Working with DotNetNuke Security Roles 1 6:48 5
Specifying The Required Fields Upon User Registration 1 1:51 1.4
User Accounts: Adding, Editing, Viewing, Deleting 1 2:45 2.2
How to Assign a Security Role to a User Account 1 3:13 2.3
Assigning Security Roles to Pages and Modules 1 11:16 8.8
The Advanced Page Settings 3 18:16 12.7
Managing Pages 1 3:40 2.5
How to create an RSS feed 1 5:00 3.8
How to display RSS feeds 0 0 0


Core Module Tutorials

Title Videos Length (mins) Size (MB)
Announcements Module 1 14:03 11.2
Image Module 1 5:26 4.7
News Feed (RSS) Module 1 6:01 4.4
Setting up the RSS News Feed XSL Stylesheet 0 0 0
Bad Practices when working with the Text / HTML module 0 0 0
Styling and formatting in the Text / HTML module
(skinning)
6 61:02 61
Styling and formatting (part 2) – Text / HTML module and FCKEditor
(skinning)
9 68:46 87.9


Tutorials for Advanced Users

Title Videos Length (mins) Size (MB)
DotNetNuke Performance and Http Compression 0 0 0
How to display Flash Games in DotNetNuke 0 0 0
How to add the Snowcovered.com RSS feeds to your DotNetNuke portal 0 0 0
Enabling RSS Auto-Discovery Aggregation 0 0
0
Configuring DotNetNuke before installation
(How to create a portal site template for the wizard)
2 23:00 18.8


Skinning Tutorials

Title Videos Length (mins) Size (MB)
How to Build a Website using DotNetNuke 0 0 0
Planning a DotNetNuke website 0 0 0
Skin Design Considerations 0 0 0
Creating a Skin Template 0 0 0
Setup Preparations for Skinning 1 10:27 9.4
Introduction to Skinning 1 11:36 11.1
How to create a skin (using tables)
8 69:33 71.3
How to create a container (using tables)
2 16:13 18
Table tricks for search engine optimized skins 1 12:12 9.5
Skinning MP3 Interview with Tyler Fawcett 0 24:00 21.5
Color Chooser Tool 0 0 0
How to test a skin 0 0 0
Minimising and creating efficient CSS code 0 0 0
Browser Quirks, Standard Compliance modes and Doc Types 0 0 0
How to install and configure the House of Nuke menu for a DotNetNuke skin 4 25:15 29.9
How to remove the Solpart menu from a container 1 4:13 4.2
How to create resizable text 5 49:45 54.3
Simple Red Leaf CSS Skin 0 0 0
How to create a pure CSS skin 9 78:44 66.9
How to create CSS containers 4 34:41 39.2
SolPart Menu Uncovered 0 0 0



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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: 127 Videos & 5 MP3 Interviews

Thursday, May 11, 2006

DotNetNuke - Update for CSS skins

We have updated a line of code within the default.aspx files for switching DotNetNuke to operate in Standards Compliance mode when working with CSS based skins.

We have added to the html tag, xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"

This ensures full compatibility with all versions of DotNetNuke and all browsers. - This was raised to my attention by Lucien Taylor who came across a problem using the old default.aspx file with DNN4.0.3, so thanks Lucien.

You can download the new default.aspx files for DNN3.x and 4.x from the tutorial:
Browser Quirks, Standard Compliance modes and Doc Types

or from the free Simple Red Leaf CSS skin page.


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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: 127 Videos & 5 MP3 Interviews

Thursday, May 04, 2006

DotNetNuke - Content, Styling, CSS and Solpart - 16 Videos (127 in total)

Issue 9 of DNN Creative Magazine is now out.

This issue continues the development of CSS, from skin design to adding content and builds on the previous tutorials in issue 8.

Within the How to build a website series using DotNetNuke, we continue adding content to the website. This looks at basic techniques through to advanced powerful styling options using the FCKEditor and CSS.

Following the CSS skinning tutorials, this month we explore how to create pure CSS containers. Alongside this we have also released an updated version of the free ‘Simple Red Leaf’ CSS skin, which is completely valid to W3C standards.

We also uncover the SolPartMenu and provide some quick tips for setting up the menu with your skins.

Finally, for all of the beginners to DotNetNuke, we have updated, expanded and improved the content of the free DotNetNuke Quick Start Guide.

This issue comes complete with 16 video tutorials.

The CSS container and styling techniques outlined here are compatible with both tables and CSS based skins.

Check out the introduction videos below.



Styling Text using CSS and the FCK Editor
Styling text using CSS and the FCKEditor



Tutorials:

Beginners Guides

DotNetNuke Quick Start Guide - Video Tutorial (Updated) - Free
(3 videos - 40min)

Adding Content

Styling and formatting (part 2) – Text/HTML module and FCKEditor
(9 videos - 69min) --> (watch the introduction video) (10.8MB)

Skinning

How to create CSS containers in DotNetNuke
(4 videos - 35min) --> (watch the introduction video) (2.7MB)

The SolPartMenu uncovered - Free


Free Skin
Simple Red Leaf – DotNetNuke CSS Skin - Free
(Updated, version 1.2 released)



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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: 127 Videos & 5 MP3 Interviews