Well it has been considerable time since I last blogged on this site and for anyone who viewed my site previously it was developed in BlogEngine.net.  The sofware is a very capable piece of software but I had some issues in the upgrading of the site and my XML files started giving me some issues.

With those issues I decided it was time for a change in blogging software.  I do a lot of blogging about DNN and figured it was time to move over and use this platform and see how it compares to my...

I was brought in to work on an asp.net web site recently that had been written by another company.  I was asked to add some features to their current site as well as to fix some bugs that had been left by the previous developers.  Once I had the site ready I moved this web site project to my staging server and then started receiving this error on a couple of pages.  Now I had chosen to publish the website instead of just doing a copy of the site with the code-behind files as well.  This is when this...

While setting up an installation of DNN for a client I ran into an issue of not being able to display the Image Gallery from within the FCK Editor on an HTML/Text Module.  My first instinct with this was that I did not have read permissions on the "/Portals/0/" folder within the DNN...

One of the big complaints that I have seen over the years with DotNetNuke has been the horrible URL’s that get produced by the framework.  This is a problem that is part of most dynamically created content on the web, not only DotNetNuke.

For the successful Content Management Systems, they have come up with ways to make these ugly URL’s more human friendly.  DNN did this back in about version 3.0 with the introduction of Friendly...

BlogEngine.NET has released a theme pack that is compatible with the version 1.4 and 1.4.5. 

The theme pack contains themes designed and created by the community, and they have been brought together as a downloadable theme pack.  Janko has compiled them together for the community to use.

Download the BlogEngine.NET theme pack here.

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Paul Scarlett of tressleworks.ca has created a Visual Basic Script to re-package DNN 4.0 skins into the new format for DNN 5.0.

The script is designed to unzip an existing skin/container package and then generate the appropriate manifest and then repackage it back up for deployment to a DNN 5.0 site.

He makes mention of requiring the following library to be installed on your system: XStandard XZip library.

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On November 11, 2008, DotNetNuke Corporation announced that they would be releasing a commercially supported version of their open source content management system.  DotNetNuke Professional Edition will provide access to expert technical support and value added network services that simplify and optimize the maintenance of DNN Web sites. The announcement stated that the first release of their professional edition would be based on the...

With the release of the latest version of DotNetNuke 4.9, there have been some new improvements to things.  Some of these things won’t be apparent unless your paying close attention.  This post will not summarize the changes as I made a post previous to this that eluded to the changes.  This post will center around the new Styles skin object.

Style Skin Object

This skin object is new and allows us as skin developers to make better use of the styles that we use with our skins. ...

Shaun Walker creator of DotNetNuke is featured this week on Twit.tv.  In episode 41 of their weekly...

The latest release of the News Feeds module has made it through the project release cycle.  Peter Donker made the announcement on 8/24/2008.  He has chosen to completely rewrite the module to provide us in the Community with some very interesting options moving forward with this module.

The first one is Aggregation

The module uses a new version of the RSS Toolkit located at CodePlex.  This toolkit allows the module to aggregate feeds of different types together as one feed.

The...