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New free DotNetNuke 7.0 Skin
With the pending release of DotNetNuke 7, scheduled for this week, I updated my free DotNetNuke (DNN) skin , MultiFunction v1.3 . This latest release requires DotNetNuke 7, it shouldn’t install on an earlier version of DNN. This release updates a number...
Can anyone do anything about the spam here on weblogs.asp.net?
If there anyone out there who can do something about the spam here on weblogs.asp.net? Perhaps we could get some new software here that we could use to blog with? The old software barely works in Chrome (I can't see the rich text editor at this point...
Using dnnModal.show in your modules and content
One thing that was added in DotNetNuke 6 but hasn’t been covered in great detail is a method called dnnModal.show. Calling this method is fairly straight forward depending on your need, but before we get into how to call/use the method, let’s talk about...
Using jQuery in your content to add some flare to your DotNetNuke website

With all of the changes to DotNetNuke 6, a lot can be lost in the fact that you actually maintain the content of your website, and while the maintenance UI has changed, the content that you present is still up to you. A CMS can only do so much for displaying you content, if you want to do some fancy things, branch out of your standard HTML.

I recently wanted to do a couple of things for my car website (yes, I’m a car guy, so it is easy to use the website for examples).

  1. I wanted to have a random image loaded in the top portion of the pages of the website, changing, or randomly loading, on each page load (not rotating live on the page).
  2. I wanted to display a list of recent photos on the home page, and when you click on one of them I wanted them to open up in a light box.

I could have done this in any number of ways, but I chose to implement some simple jQuery for each, below I will show you how.

First things first, the website uses my free DotNetNuke skin, MultiFunction, available via Codeplex. I have some example documentation on how to customize the CSS for the skin to make your site unique, feel free to check out the Documentation page for examples.

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Using JQuery to set create a flexible 3 column layout with Divs
This evening I was working on creating a Full Width skin for http://www.sccaforums.com/ , the current skin is at a fixed width, which doesn’t work very well for an active Forum when you have a browser with a high resolution. (The site runs on DotNetNuke...
Are you going to OpenForce 08? Show it off!
Like last year there are now Conference Badges available for both OpenForce 08 Conferences, Europe and Las Vegas . If you're attending and want to tell people that, check out the individual pages for each conference to get the badges. I am fortunate enough...
DotNetNuke 4.8.2 Released!
DotNetNuke 4.8.2 released today available for download from www.DotNetNuke.com There are a few security fixes in this release, and also a fix for the ScriptManager problems, I had blogged about a temporary fix for the script manager errors a few weeks...
DNN 4.X development in Windows Vista, issues with ASP.NET Ajax
While working on the Engage: Publish module's latest round of enhancements I started having problems working with my development machine at home. The machine here is a Vista Ultimate machine that I've blogged about getting configured in the past. The...
Engage: Publish 4.2 Released for consumption!
Last week we were able to release the long awaited new release of Engage: Publish with all new bells and whistles. Engage: Publish is an article management system / workflow engine for your DotNetNuke portal. It provides advanced content management capabilities...
ASP.NET AJAX Beta 2 - Getting your old Atlas-based AutoCompleteExtender controls to work under Beta 2 using VB.Net by Chad Hobson
My good buddy Chad Hobson has created his first meaningful technical blog post to help the masses . He had some issues when upgrading to Asp.Net Ajax Beta 2 for his AutoCompleteExtender controls and took the time to create a helpful post on how to make...
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