News and Articles Module Reviews

This is an independant review of Rogue Proeliator News Items Module for DotNetNuke® V3.x by Lee Sykes.

Alongside the review are 4 Video Tutorials totalling 24 minutes to demonstrate the modules features and possible uses.

Module Details:

The News Items module allows the user to maintain a list of announcements and news briefs. The module is an expansion of the DotNetNuke® Core Announcements Module.

The News Items module supports the following components for each News Item:

• Headline & News Text
• "Audit" showing posted-by user and time
• News Commentary
• Parent-Child list relationship with links
• Customizable Read More link

Additional Features

• Auto View Order: Allows you to easily adjust the view order for all items in the module
• Manage Expired Items: Provides a way to view, edit and delete items for the module which have passed the Expiration Date.

This is an independent review of Orizonti's Nuke News for DotNetNuke® V3.1 by Lee Sykes.

Alongside the review are 8 Flash Tutorials totalling 30 minutes to demonstrate the modules features and possible uses.

Throughout these eight videos we work through practical examples of using the module with a football news website.

Module Details

According to Orizonti, NukeNews was designed from the need to easily allow news submissions and approvals, categorization and posting, flexible archiving and display of archives and finally a flexible, customizable themed look.

Features

• News can be submitted by selected role
• News can be "auto-approved" or require approval before posting
• Email Notification of new submissions needing approval
• News is categorized by customized category list and displayed with associated category image
• CSS "Theme-able". Includes two CSS themes and any number may be easily added
• Flexible archiving options for each article include: never archive, module configured # days, or a specified date
• Always show # of articles ensures no "empty" modules from archiving
• Archived news is automatically categorized by Month/Year
• News syndication via RSS
• Article rating and comments
• Editable Post Date allows “Release Date“ for posting articles in future which aren't displayed until post date.
• Searchable via DNN3 site searches
• RSS Feed now customizable.
• Permalinks included with RSS feeds
• Editable Comments

This is a Free independent review of Efficion Consulting’s Articles Module V3.1.5 and V3.2 Beta for DotNetNuke® V3.1 by Lee Sykes.

Alongside the review are 9 Flash Video Walk Throughs / Tutorials totalling 41 minutes to demonstrate the modules features and possible uses.

Throughout these nine videos we work through practical examples of using the module with a music website.

Module Details

The Articles module is basically an extension of the core's Announcements module. It adds several useful features including: listing can include an automatically thumbnailed image, article archives, searching, and Article details with Rich Text Editing (or option to link to Internal or External Page).

Features:

• Rich Text Editing: Users can create content through a Rich Text Editor
• Search: Users can search all articles in the portal
• Archive: Users can view all articles by clicking on the More Articles... link. Alternatively a custom link can be input to display a particular page or subset of articles
• Images: An image can be displayed for each article. Thumbnails are automatically generated based on a configrable MaxWidth parameter
• Featured Articles: allows users to mark an Article as Featured and the Article List has an option to display only featured articles
• Admins can choose which fields they want displayed in the ListView
• Site Wide option: The Article List can display Articles from anywhere in the portal, not just articles specific to the module in which they were created
• Incorporates Efficion's Categories Module to allow for filtering by category

This is an independent review of Scott McCulloch's News Articles Module for DotNetNuke® V3.1.

Alongside the review are 6 Flash Video Tutorials totalling 30 minutes to demonstrate the modules features and possible uses.

Throughout these six videos we work through practical examples of using the module with a mountain bike website.

Module Details

This is a fully featured article manager for DotNetNuke. The module has evolved since version 1 of DotNetNuke, and has been used on many sites around the world.

Features:

• Articles consist of:
  • Title
  • Categories (You can select multiple or none at all)
  • Summary
  • Publish & End Dates (Optional)
  • Image (Optional)
  • Any number of sub-pages
  • Featured
• Articles can be filtered, listed and displayed in various configurations
• Search articles through a pageable interface
• Security Roles within your portal can be given submission and approval capabilities
• Approvers and Authors are notified (via email) when an article has been submitted / approved, which is configurable
• Ratings and Comments
• RSS feeds for:
  • Category
  • Author
  • Top 25 most viewed
• Layout is customized through html templates similar to portal skinning
• Emails are customized through html templates
• Articles can be added to any number of pages, (even the same instance), and have different filtering settings.