After the CodePlex site went into archive mode, DNN wanted to make older releases of its open source CMS artifacts available to everyone for easier access. These older releases were uploaded to GitHub and are now accessible by everyone! Continue Reading »

Each Month DNN MVP’s meet to discuss all things DNN. This month we had great conversation around DNN Summit, OSS contributions, the MVP & Partner Program, roadmap updates and more. We will continue to post the meetings online for everyone to see.

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On the heels of DNN Summit the Feburary 2018 edition has several announcements about things that happened at DNN Summit and new products released as OSS at DNN Summit. We also provide info on upcoming events, information about ecosystem momentum created by the Ecosystem Advisory Groups, and a neat DNN Summit video!

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As a followup on the last post (Proof of Concept: DNN & CSS Grid Working Together) I decided to create another video that shows the power of CSS Grid and the different layouts for different devices I have added the ability to change the color of the text and background and created another video that cleanly shows the advantages.

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Over the past week I thought I’d play about with Css Grid (a new Css layout system). When I started to use Css Grid I started to think of ways the Css Grid would work well with Dnn and I came up with an idea.

This idea not only solves a problem for the Theme creator but also allows the user of the theme to create the layout they want and not what the theme allows them to do!

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Have you ever been asked to implement a “speedbump” on a client website and been like WHAAA???  LOL!  The first time I heard this phrase, I had no clue what the heck is our client was talking about and worse yet, I was too ashamed to just come out and ask them at first!  :)  After doing some searching around, thanks to our friend Google, I got some ideas as to what they might have been asking, so I mustered up the courage to just fall on my sword and let them know we were clueless to the full meaning of their "speedbump" request.  Perhaps you have found yourself in the same boat and landed on this blog post.

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nvQuickTheme is more than just a great minimalist DNN (DotNetNuke) theme. It is a powerful theme building framework and developer workflow. This "starter solution" was made with developer efficiency and the ultimate DNN theme performance in mind. Most DNN themes in the marketplace today are loaded with bloat, which can make theming a pain, and for someone new to DNN, almost impossible. Our documentation will outline basic usage, modification, and advanced usage of this framework and developer workflow.

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For a while now I've been threatening to work on a new theme for DNN, a new package building on Bootstrap 4 (currently Beta-3) to provide an alternative to my HammerFlex skin that I first released in January 2014 (yikes, where'd the past three years go?).

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I recently got a replacement laptop when my battery stopped holding a charge. This brought on nearly a whole day of downloading and installing new software. Of course I wanted to install DNN and in the process I got snagged by a few IIS “gotchas” that I thought I’d share.

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It's a new year for DNN in more ways than one! In the first DNN Digest edition of 2018 we provide upcoming events, information about ecosystem momentum created by the Ecosystem Advisory Groups, a helpful DNN Cheatsheet, and more.

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