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...
Posted by Mitchel on Thursday, September 25, 2008
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 ...
Posted by Mitchel on Wednesday, September 24, 2008
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...
Posted by Tom on Friday, September 19, 2008
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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Posted by Mitchel on Monday, September 15, 2008
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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Posted by Mitchel on Saturday, September 13, 2008
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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Posted by Mitchel on Friday, September 12, 2008
Recently I was tasked with the creation of a large database system that consisted of a database table with 5 date colums, and a varchar primary key. This table was to hold upwards of 3.5 million records, and I needed to know exactly how much disk space was going to be needed to store not only the database, but also the index required to facilitate the search requirements. After looking for a number of different ways to do this, and many free third party tools I decided that the most simple way to do this with the tools that I had available was to generate my own method to populate a test database.
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Posted by Mitchel on Friday, September 12, 2008
This is my fifth revision of a DotNetNuke remote hosting provider installation tutorial. This tutorial will provide you the basic overview of how to perform a clean installation of DotNetNuke 4.9.0 on a remote web hosting provider. In the article I will try to point out the most common differences between different hosting providers, I will also be providing specific examples regarding the use of the Plesk control panel which is what my preferred hosting provider (3Essentials) uses. All steps within this tutorial are promised to work with 3Essentials hosting, others are most likely possible, but have not been fully confirmed with the provider. Additionally this guide is geared towards a manual instlalation at the root of the site, which is not supported by all hosting providers.
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Posted by Mitchel on Thursday, September 11, 2008
Installing DotNetNuke can be somewhat difficult at times, therefore I am writing this article to give you a full step by step guide to installing DotNetNuke on a Windows XP Pro system. The instructions are similar for Windows 2000 but might vary slightly, I have tried to note as many differences as possible. Windows Vista installation is similar but requires a few different steps relating to IIS. This guide is my eighth revision and includes additional steps and information based on feedback from previous versions. Additionally a few new instructions and notes have been provided for users installing on Windows 2003 Server to address a few common "stumbling blocks" that have prevented successful installations.
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Posted by Mitchel on Thursday, September 11, 2008
I am working with the new team on the DotNetNuke Documents module project to actually create end-user and administrator user guides for that project. This has lead me to think about the free modules and items that are provided by IowaComputerGurus. Each of these is lacking documentation, and to be honest I just don't have the time to ke...
Posted by Mitchel on Wednesday, September 10, 2008
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