DotNetNuke.com Relaunched as DNN 5.01 Nears
As part of its ongoing internal reorganization, DotNetNuke Corp. relaunched dotnetnuke.com for the first time in years. Clearly the most important hub for the DNN community, the site sports a refreshing new look based on the new default skin introduced with DNN 5. The home page has been vastly simplified giving priority to DotNetNuke Professional Edition. To better accommodate the growing page count, the main menu has been reorganized and a left-hand vertical menu was added to most interior pages. While the site is now better structured, I have not found any major new content as of yet. Even details on DNN PE are still limited to a one page intro and a dull contact form. Overall though, the visual improvements are pleasing to the eyes and a welcome change the the gray-red combination of the last few years. Hats off to anybody involved in the relaunch.
Now on to more DNN community news.
- According to Joe Brinkman, 2 new core releases are coming our way with DNN 4.9.2 scheduled for Feb 16 and 5.0.1 scheduled for Feb 23. I’m wondering what prompted an additional 4.x.x release as 4.9.1 was supposed to mark the end of the DNN 4 code branch.
- A number of new Wrox DNN titles have seen the light of bookstores this week. The highly anticipated Professional DNN Module Programming by Mitchel Sellers has finally gone on sale and so has Professional DNN 5: Open Source Web Application Framework for ASP.NET by by Shaun Walker, Brian Scarbeau, Darrell Hardy, and Stan Schultes. For some lighter fare, check out DNN and Web Standards by Cuong Dang and DNN Custom Membership Provider by Antonio Chagoury.
- Speaking of Mitchel Sellers, he posted a great overview on how to tune your DNN site for performance.
- I had the pleasure of helping Bruce Chapman of iFinity Software test Url Master for DNN 5, which has now been released. Besides being fully compatible with the latest DNN version, Bruce has enhanced the module so that DNN upgrades are now possible without having to disable Url Master first.
- And sticking with Urls for a minute, Bruce Chapman blogs about why you should have long Urls. Interesting read, especially the part on lazy programmers :)
- I’m often asked about alternatives to the core Events module. Take a look at Engage Events 1.1 as it might be just what you were looking for.
- Ever wondered how to add your own JavaScript to 3rd party modules? Read the Eguana Solutions blog to learn how.
- DNN core team member Erik van Ballegoij shares a few valuable lessons learned while getting comfortable with the the new DNN 5 extension manifest and Charles Nurse covers the subject in more detail in a 4-part series on the new extension installer manifest.
- Uploading a restricted file type to DNN is simply a matter of enabling it, right? Well maybe, but there is more to the story as Will Strohl explains.
- And to wrap up for this week, a quick reminder that I will be speaking on the topic of DNN SEO at the Capital DNN User Group on Wednesday, February 18th, 2009. If you call the nation’s capital your home or happen to be in the are, I hope you swing by and say hi.
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