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Dec
29
nik

Module Print Widget for DotNetNuke

If you are like me and want your websites to have a clean, unblemished look, then most likely you have either turned off the Print functionality in your DotNetNuke module settings or just use containers that don’t display the icon. While this does make the site look cleaner, it also takes away the functionality. I gave this some thought and concluded that a Widget would be a great way to provide the...
Dec
29
nik

DotNetNuke Widgets Guide (Part 2 of 4)

This is Part 2 of my four-part series on DotNetNuke Widgets. In Part 1 of the series, I covered some fundamental concepts related to DotNetNuke Widgets. In this post, I will introduce you to a few of the Widgets that are included with the DotNetNuke distribution. Before getting started I’d like to make one observation…these widgets were created prior to the inclusion of jQuery within the...
Dec
28
nik

DotNetNuke Skin Proxy Re-visited

Some years ago, I had presented a solution for dynamically loading a skin layout based on the user’s browser type. Fast-forward to the present — at the Fall 2009 OpenForce Conference in Amsterdam I had a chance to speak to Armand Datema (@nokiko) on the same topic. The conversation occurred following my session on Advanced Skinning with DotNetNuke where I presented an early prototype of...
Dec
25
nik

DotNetNuke Widgets Guide (Part 1 of 4)

Starting with Release 5.x, the DotNetNuke platform has included a Javascript-based Widgets framework for dynamically injecting client-side interactivity into skins and modules. Like most Open Source developers, I thoroughly enjoyed coding the Widget framework but neglected to document it properly. In this four-part series I hope to correct this shortcoming. In Part 1, I will introduce some fundamental...
Dec
2
nik

DotNetNuke Visual Overview

A visual overview of DotNetNuke intended to give newcomers to the platform a quick understanding of DotNetNuke. (Click for larger...
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