DotNetNuke Videos

In this tutorial we explain how to upload and install a skin to your DotNetNuke® portal.

Video 1 covers:

• How to install a skin to the Host Portal section
• How to install a skin to the Current Site Portal
• Setting permissions for uploading skins

Time Length: 13min 26secs
Download Size: 12.3MB


Video 2 covers:

• How to automatically batch install skins and containers to DotNetNuke®

Time Length: 4min 55secs
Download Size: 3.8MB

The initial installation of DotNetNuke can be configured so that when you upload and initiate the installation, all of your preferred settings, modules, and skins are automatically installed.

This can be a massive time saving device.

Options can include setting up the:

• Host Menu / Site Settings
• Admin Menu / Portal Site Settings
• Parent / Child Portals
• Automatically installing 3rd party modules, skins and containers, private assemblies and language packs

Further options can also include creating a default series of pages which are automatically installed with DotNetNuke.

The tutorial comes complete with two video tutorials totalling 24 minutes in length.

This free video tutorial demonstrates how to install DotNetNuke® 3.2 to a hosting provider. We demonstrate this using Server Intellect as our hosting provider (In a shared hosting environment).

Video 1 covers:

• Configuring your hosting provider server (using Helm Control Panel)
• Adding a website domain name
• Using a domain alias (Temporary URL) (we use this while waiting for the Nameserver settings to take effect – approx 24 / 48 hours)
• How to create a Microsoft SQL Server database
• How to create a User and Password to access the SQL Server database
• How to set which version of ASP.NET to use (1.1 or 2.0)
• Downloading the DotNetNuke® code, extracting the zip
• Editing the release.config file and creating the web.config file
• Adding the SQL database connection string to the web.config file

Time Length: 15:42
Download size: 11.6MB


Video 2 covers:

• Final checks to make to the server settings before uploading the DotNetNuke® files
• How to find a free FTP programme
• Uploading the DotNetNuke® files via FTP using AceFTP3
• How to start the installation process of DotNetNuke® using a temporary URL
• 24 hours later configuring DotNetNuke® to use the actual URL
• How to configure the portal aliases for DotNetNuke®
• Final security changes you need to make

Time Length: 14:21
Download size: 10.8MB

This tutorial covers How to create an RSS feed using DotNetNuke®, complete with a 5minute video.

It explores:

• The various methods available for creating an RSS feed, from free to premium modules
• Choosing the most suitable modules for your RSS needs

Enabling an RSS feed within the DotNetNuke core modules works the same for all of the modules, this video tutorial demonstrates:


Enabling RSS Syndication in the DNN Announcements module - Video

This video demonstrates how to enable RSS Syndication within the DotNetNuke core modules. Looking at the announcements module, how to enable syndication, a demonstration of how the feed will be displayed within a website and within an on-line RSS reader such as pluck.com

Time Length: (5min 0secs)
File Size: 3.8MB


The tutorial then progresses to discuss:

• What are the other RSS options available?
• Using Images and Links in RSS feeds
• Promotion - ‘Blog and Ping’ what is it anyway?

Don’t put it off, start today. The use of RSS is rapidly growing and sooner, rather than later, the users of your website will be demanding your content via RSS…

This DotNetNuke® Video Tutorial demonstrates the DotNetNuke® Core News Feed (RSS) module, covering:

• Adding the module to a page
• Selecting an RSS feed to display from moreover.com
• Adding an RSS feed to the module
• Uploading an XSL transformation style sheet to format the RSS feed
  

Time length: 6:01 min
Download Size: 4.4MB

This is an independent review of Orizonti Nuke Feeds module for DotNetNuke® V3.x

Alongside the review are 3 Flash Video Walk Throughs / Tutorials totalling 18 minutes to demonstrate the modules features and possible uses.

Module Details

Nuke Feeds is a module for displaying RSS feeds. It allows customizable template design and support for RSS 0.9x, 1.0, 2.0 as well as Atom feeds.

Features

• Multiple RSS Feeds can be added
• Paging
• Feed filtering using keywords or Regular Expressions
• Supports RSS 0.9x, 1.0, 2.0 and Atom feeds with auto-detection of feed-type
• Cached feed data is stored in database until next update
• Templates allow you to completely customize how the feed items are displayed and the data displayed for each item
• CSS styles to customise the display