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A question which always pops up in the asp.net forums is what is the best hosting provider for DotNetNuke®?

We have created an area in the forum, just to allow the DotNetNuke community to post up their current DotNetNuke Hosting Providers. Underneath this post, everyone who uses the provider can then add their own comments.

Once the list has grown large enough, we will pull all of the data together and make it easily readable in a spreadsheet or pdf. – Of course this will be a free resource for the community.

If you are using the wrong keywords, your website will be lost in cyberspace and reaching the top 10 from a search result in Google will be a mere dream!

Here is a free 75 page guide produced by Wordtracker.

Having read through it in an hour, it is an invaluable resource.

 

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.

What’s the last question you ask when you are creating your DotNetNuke websites?

How do I promote my website to the Search Engines?

I have the privilege of being able to offer all of our registered users, a free 90 page guide called “Search Engine Optimisation Made Easy” by Brad Callen.

This guide alone is worth $67 and with permission from Brad, he has allowed us to publish it on the DNN Creative Magazine website.

I have personally used this guide extensively and found it to be a wealth of knowledge covering all aspects of Search Engine Optimization and Promotion.

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 free video tutorial is for beginners to DotNetNuke®. It gives you a quick overview of DNN with just enough information to get you going, without getting bogged down in the full details.

The DotNetNuke Quick Start Guide video covers:

Securing your website

Adding and moving modules, including the:

• Text/HTML module
• Links module
• Image module

Changing the Skin and Containers of your website

Uploading your logo

Adding pages

These are the basic principles covering how a DotNetNuke® website works. Essential reading. It will help you gain a better understanding for operating your website and offers an explanation for the following terms:

• Skins & Content
• Database Driven Content and Pages
• Modules & Content
• Containers (Module graphics)