In these video tutorials we explain in detail configuring the User Settings page. This configures the view of the User Accounts page, as well as configuring further details for Login, Logout and Registration to a DotNetNuke portal.

The videos cover:

• Video 1 – Configuring the User Settings Page
• Video 2 – User Settings Advanced Functions

Total Time Length: 16mins

User Accounts and User Settings in DotNetNuke 4.3 and 3.3

In this video tutorial we demonstrate working with the User Accounts of a DotNetNuke portal for versions 4.3 and 3.3.

DotNetNuke 4.3 / 3.3 provides new facilities for managing the users in your DotNetNuke portal more easily.

This tutorial provides you with the essential information to enable you to easily manage and administer the registered users on your DotNetNuke portal. Ranging from searching, viewing, filtering users, editing and deleting users, managing security roles and maintaining a user’s account.

Time Length: 9mins

User Accounts new features in DotNetNuke 4.3 and 3.3

This free video tutorial demonstrates a new shortcut in versions 4.3 and 3.3 of DotNetNuke which enables you to quickly edit module titles and text in the Text / HTML module.

How to Quickly Edit Module Titles and Text in DotNetNuke 3.3 and 4.3

In this tutorial we demonstrate how to incorporate Google Adsense into DotNetNuke websites.

In particular, the aim was to build a DotNetNuke website which would allow an administrator with little or no experience of DotNetNuke to:

• Easily choose what type of Adsense ad they wish to display on the page, for example a square ad or banner ad
• Easily choose the location on the page for the Adsense ad
• and all of the Adsense ads need to blend within the text content of the page

In these 4 video tutorials we walk you through, step by step, how to integrate Google Adsense with DotNetNuke skins. We demonstrate how to incorporate Adsense into the Free Simple Red Leaf CSS skin. You can see an example of the Adsense skin in action by watching the introduction video below. The code is available for download with the videos.

The videos cover:

• Video 1 – Introduction and demonstration
• Video 2 – Skin setup and Google Adsense setup
• Video 3 – Adding Adsense square ads and blending with the text
• Video 4 – Adsense coloured containers and banner ads

Total Time Length: 33mins

View video 1 to watch an introduction to the tutorial (4.4MB)

Watch all videos: Incorporating Google Adsense into DotNetNuke

In this tutorial we demonstrate how to create 3 horizontal CSS menus using the HouseMenu created by Tim Rolands from the House of Nuke.

We walk you through step by step, editing the free Simple Red Leaf CSS skin, and convert it to use horizontal menus. All of the skin code is available for download with the videos.

The menus

We explain how to create a:

Single horizontal menu that just displays the root items of the menu


Horizontal menu with a sub menu


Horizontal menu that uses images for the buttons with a sub menu


The videos cover:

• Video 1 – Introduction and demonstration
• Video 2 – Creating the layout initial configuration for a horizontal CSS menu
• Video 3 – Styling the horizontal root menu
• Video 4 – Configuring the horizontal sub menu
• Video 5 – Styling the sub-menu and setting up for all root menu items
• Video 6 – Pros and Cons, Creating a submenu using images to create a button effect
• Video 7 – Styling the image menu

Total Time Length: 65mins

View video 1 to watch an introduction to the tutorial (3.8MB)

Watch all videos: Creating Horizontal CSS menus in DotNetNuke using the HouseMenu

How many times have you wanted to use a font other than the generic fonts that we are forced to use for web pages?

This video tutorial (54 mins) demonstrates a technique which allows you to use any font you require for your text headings.

The user does not need the font installed on their machine.

Some designers use the technique of using images for their headings just so that they can incorporate different fonts into their designs. The problem with this is that you need to create a new image for every single title that you wish to create. This is a chore and defeats the object of using a dynamic content management system such as DotNetNuke.

Welcome to sIFR (Scalable Inman Flash Replacement). sIFR has been around for a while now, but there are minimal DotNetNuke sites implementing this technique. Using sIFR can give your website the extra design edge and help you to move away from the generic DotNetNuke designs that you tend to see.

This tutorial is a step by step guide covering how to create the free ‘Simple Red Leaf’ pure CSS layout containers

You can view the skin live here: http://skins.dnncreative.com

The containers are created using just CSS (no tables) and make use of CSS for the layout and styling the titles.

The tutorial consists of 4 videos detailing how to create CSS containers for DotNetNuke using Visual Web Developer Express Edition.

The videos cover:

• Video 1 – Introduction, demonstration of containers
• Video 2 – Preparations, first CSS container, the transparent containers
• Video 3 – Boxed containers, ids and classes with containers
• Video 4 – Finishing touches, spacing, testing, fixing with hacks and completion of containers

Total Time Length: 34min 41secs

View video 1 to watch an introduction to the tutorial. (2.7MB)

Continuing our series on How to build a DotNetNuke website, we expand on the previous tutorial (Styling and formatting in the Text/HTML module) and add content to the Home and Portfolio pages of the Vortex Music website.
The first three videos of this tutorial focus on the Home page, in particular working with the Text/HTML module and the FCKEditor. We demonstrate the best practices when working with the Text/HTML module as well as working with images, uploading files and formatting the text.

The second half of the tutorial (6 videos) focuses on the portfolio page. We demonstrate how to programme the skin.css file and the FCKEditor so that you can quickly and easily create the Portfolio credits list. This page is created using just CSS, no tables are used and no images or formatting are placed in the source code of the page. The Portfolio page is styled completely using the skin.css file.

Version 2 released May 2006
Version 1 created August 2005

These free video tutorials are for beginners to DotNetNuke. They give you a quick overview of DNN with just enough information to get you going, without becoming lost in the full details.

These videos provides a foundation for getting started with DotNetNuke and will lead onto the other tutorials which provide more detailed explanations.

The DNN Quick Start Guide videos cover:

• How to secure your DotNetNuke portal
• Changing the passwords of the admin and host accounts
• Explanation of the admin edit area, content panes and modules
• Deleting modules from the Home Page
• Inserting two Text / HTML modules to the page
• Using the Text / HTML module to add text and images
• Using the links module, adding links to the page
• How to preview the DotNetNuke website
• Using the image module
• Changing the look of a DotNetNuke portal
• Using Containers: Removing containers
• How to change a container
• How to change the skins for a DotNetNuke portal
• How to change and upload a new logo
• How to add pages
• How to add sub menu and sub sub menu items
• How to move modules around the page

Total Time Length: 40min 17secs

Continuing our series on How to build a DotNetNuke website, we are now going to explore adding content to the Vortex Music website.

This tutorial focuses on the methods you can use to add content to your website using the Text/HTML module.

In particular using the FCKEditor in combination with calling classes from the skin.css file to format the text and images within the Text/HTML module.

The video tutorials demonstrate step by step how you can create CSS classes to format your images and text.

The videos cover:

• Video 1 – Introduction and practices to avoid
• Video 2 – First CSS styling and setting up the FCKEditor
• Video 3 – CSS styles for images and quotes
• Video 4 – CSS styles for images with captions
• Video 5 – FCKEditor and setting up a styles list
• Video 6 – Using the FCKEditor to call styles from the skin CSS file

Total Time Length: 61min

We demonstrate how you can create the following layouts without using any additional containers or tables...