Entries for September 2008

In an effort to provide information in an easy to find fashion, and a manner to additionally help offset the massive amounts of time spent writing tutorials for posting on this site I have published a small reference book "DotNetNuke Installation, Upgrade, Backup, and Restores: Best of articles from MitchelSellers.com".  This is simply a print...

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Today my business sent out an e-mail to all newsletter subscribers about the most recent set of free module releases.  This is my final cross-post of this information here on the blog, if you wish to stay up to date, please visit the IowaComputerGurus Newsletters page to subscribe. New Module Releases The following new modules were released ...

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From Mitchel: I'm happy to announce that Tom Kraak of Seablick Consulting will lend his expertise in the area of DNN Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and DNN Ecommerce as a guest blogger on MitchelSellers.com. You may already know Tom from his own blog or have seen him lurking around the DNN forums, DNN conferences and community events … welcome To...

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DotNetNuke site administrators often are tasked with maintaining their sites as well as ensuring that a proper backup/recovery plan is in place.  An important part of this is to have a proper site backup, therefore I am re-visiting my two previous versions of backup guides in this updated article.  I will walk though the items needed for backup, and considerations when creating the backup, specifically if you are looking to migrate a site to a different server.  I will then discuss the process to create a backup in both SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005, and lastly I will quickly touch on the third party options available for performing site backups. 

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I find that web development projects are requiring more and more AJAX functionality. The bells and whistles that come with AJAX are hard things for many people to live without. One of the more common toolsets to use when working with AJAX items in the .NET environment is the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit. I have found that with VERY minimal effort you can fully implement the toolkit inside a DNN installation and it can even be done WITHOUT modification to the web.config file. This blog entry will provide information on how to incorporate the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit into your project. I will simply discuss the DNN implementation, I am NOT going to actually discuss the usage of any specific control.

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After my recent change to the new skin design on this site I decided that I need to work on a method to incorporate display for larger images, that under normal situations would break the layout of this site. Most recently I have made a few simple portal configuration changes that allowed me to incorporate a lightbox script, so now I can easily get large images to display like this! In this entry I walk you through the process to obtain the files, load them into DNN, and then to configure Ventrian's News Articles to allow its use.

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