Child Portals and their use in DNN

I’ve been using full and child portals for years – it depends on the project and I can only give you my personal experience here, but since I’ve done literally hundreds and hundreds of sites, if not thousands, a mix of full parent portals, child portals, ecommerce portals, email marketing portals… just to name a few

Handling multilingual content in a CMS

I am a member of LinkedIN and I saw an interesting question which I answered about localisation and content management systems – so here is a copy of the answer I put in to help those who may not be familiar with how it’s handled.

Skin Broke My DotNetNuke Site

Here is a an easy fix to a very common problem I’m seeing with newcomers to DNN. Most often created by incorrectly installing a container instead of a skin. Use this attached file to resolve it quickly.

Can DotNetNuke be used to run a business?

Can you really run a business based on the Windows based Open Source solution – DotNetNuke… I’ve given a bit of an insight on my thoughts on the matter.

Using names instead of numbers in your portals

Learn how to manage your portals by creating a more user friendly naming convention that is available when creating your portals.

DNN, SEO and all that ‘search engine friendly’ talk

Like the discussion about should we use tables in skins, and what’s the difference about compatibility and compliance… it’s a bit subjective, but the step towards making your URLS friendlier is always a more positive move, regardless of SEO, let’s think about the end user visiting the site – how much help would it be for them to be able to logically or intuitively navigate around a website. But even there area a few pros and cons.

How to know if a site is using PageBlaster

Looking for ways to improve the speed of your slow DotNetNuke website? One of the biggest DotNetNuke websites – http://www.afl.com.au uses it, and you can too. But who’s running PageBlaster? Here’s how to find out.

My experience in moving DNN to another server

An overview on moving and acquiring DNN sites and an overview of the new hosting environment XD Design P/L will be offering clients.

DotNetNuke Offline Maintenance

Taking a DNN site offline requires more than the default.htm file to be added, but this is a handy tip with a sample file to take your site offline and display your company logo, while you upgrade your DotNetNuke website… Can also be used for uploading install files.

Finding errors your DNN site you don’t understand?

Sometimes it’s handy to know what some of these errors mean – even if you’re not a developer, it might help you understand the complexities these guys are faced with from time to time.

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