DotNetNuke Videos

This is an independent review of Scott McCulloch's Simple Gallery Module for DotNetNuke® V3.x.

Alongside the review are 5 Flash Video Tutorials totalling 22 minutes to demonstrate the modules features and uses.

Module Details

This is a module for managing photos for DotNetNuke. The module displays the photos that have been uploaded through the module, thumbnails them and displays them in a gallery.

According to Scott, this module has been designed for simplicity due to frustration with other photo modules, e.g. they are too complex for most users. This module has been designed to work very similar to other core modules.

Features

• Albums
• Auto Resizing of images
• Auto Thumbnailing of images
• Bulk Import
• Slideshow of Images
• Configurable Options
• Simplified interface
• Localized
• Searchable
• Bonus Random Image module

This is an independent review of ZLDNN Photo Album module for DotNetNuke® V3.x.

Alongside the review are 4 Flash Video Walk Throughs / Tutorials totalling 19 minutes to demonstrate the modules features and possible uses.

Module Details

Photo Album is a module for managing photos. The module displays the photos that have been uploaded through the module, thumbnails them and displays them in a single album.

Features

• Upload a single photo file or a zip file that contains photos
• Add existing photos that are already in your portal
• JPEG, BMP and TIF formats are supported (but not GIF)
• Auto Resizing of images
• Auto Thumbnailing of images
• Configure the size of the thumbnails
• Paging Support
• Rotate and/or flip photos
• View Order facility
• Displays number of views
• Scrolling option
• Email a photo
• Export and Import photographs
• Searchable

This is an independent review of Spohn Software Over and Out Images module for DotNetNuke® V3.x.

Alongside the review are 2 Flash Video Walk Throughs / Tutorials totalling 12 minutes to demonstrate the modules features and possible uses.

Module Details

Over and Out Images for DotNetNuke® 3.x is a module which extends the functionality of the standard core Images module.

Features

• Create an unlimited list of images in either a horizontal or vertical list
• Add an alternate image that will be shown when the user moves their mouse over the image
• An image can link to an external URL or page within your portal
• Uses for this control, include:
  • Graphic menu system, displaying different images when the mouse moves over the selection
  • Adding a visual effect to your image when the user selects it

This is a set of 3 video tutorials looking at the Advanced Settings for a Page.

This covers:

• How to copy modules from a page
• How to shadow modules from a page
• How to add an icon to a page in the menu
• How to change the skin and container settings for a single page
• How to use the hidden and disabled functions
  (ie. How to hide a page from the menu and how to display a page title in a menu but not allow access to the page)
• How to automatically refresh a page
• How to use the MetaTags feature
• How to use the Start and End date publishing functions
• How to create links to external URLs and files within your website

Time Length:  18:16min
Download Size: 12.7MB

This DotNetNuke® Video Tutorial looks at how to manage the pages within a DotNetNuke® portal using the Admin Menu / Pages option covering:

• Moving
• Editing
• Viewing
• Adding pages

Time Length: 3:40 min
Download Size: 2.5MB

This DotNetNuke® Video Tutorial demonstrates:

• Adding the module to a page
• How to add an image
• How to upload an image
• Setting alternate text
• Width & Height
• Displaying an image without the container
• Scaling an image and file size

Time length: 5:26 min
Download Size: 4.7MB

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 free video tutorial is a beginner’s guide to preparing images for a web page.

Adding images to a web page makes the page more interesting, visually attractive and appealing to the eye.

If you do not prepare an image correctly before uploading it to your website however, you are likely to lose visitors because the page will take too long to download.

This DotNetNuke Video Tutorial focuses on working with Security roles and applying them to the settings of Pages and Modules.

In the video we walk through setting up the various security permissions for use on a Music website. We setup the website so that it has a private members only section available to download mp3s.

This covers:

Home Page:

• How to:
• Allow all users to view the page
• Assign Home Page Administrators to edit the introduction text on the Text / HTML module, but not have access to the Links module

MP3 Downloads Page:

• How to:
• Allow all users to view the page
• Allow MP3 examples to be downloadable by all Users
• Assign the Account Login Module, so that it only displays when a user is not logged in
• Assign a Members only Text Module, set so that it only displays when a user is logged in

MP3 Members Only Page

• How To:
• Allow only registered users access to view the page when they are logged in.

Time Length: 11min 16secs
Download Size: 8.8MB

This DotNetNuke® Video Tutorial introduces the basics for working with pages and the menu system, covering:

• Adding a Page
• The Page (Menu) Name
• Page Title
• Description
• Keywords
• Parent Page
• Permissions
  

We walk through adding 5 pages as different examples of working with the menu system.

Time length: 8:25 min
Download Size: 6.1MB