So we just had our first “Ask Spiffy” webinar on October 31st 2011 and one of the questions submitted to us got me thinking: “How can you tell that a skin from Snowcovered.com is going to be a good skin?” It’s a question that I personally do not have to think about very often because I’m a skin developer and I’m usually the guy creating the skins.  So I started thinking about it and here’s what I came up with.

• Are you having problems with getting a DotNetNuke site to look and function the way you want it to? 
• Are you looking to build a new website and wonder what DNN is really like? 
• Do you have a burning DNN question but are just unsure who to ask? 

If you answered ‘yes’ to any of these questions, you should sign up for the “Ask Spiffy” webinar hosted by the Spiffy  Web Team.  Our group of expert designers, programmers, marketers and internet strategists work with DotNetNuke sites on a daily basis, giving us loads of insight on how DNN works and how to make it work the best for you. 

With DotNetNuke version 6 is easy to see why this new version is very popular; New administration interface, Snowcovered store and DotNetNuke Extensions Forge intergration, Amazon S3 and Azure File Storage (Pro Only), E-Commerce (Pro Only), Sharepoint Integration (Pro Only), and new C# Code Base.

Business owners face a number of challenges, especially in this difficult economy.  They struggle to control costs, boost employee productivity, keep up to date with technology, and keep their information safe, especially online.  While these problems might seem insurmountable, they aren’t.  There’s a cost-effective solution that can help business owners easily solve some of their operating problems – Google Apps for Business. 

With DotNetNuke version 6 is easy to see why this new version is very popular; New administration interface, Snowcovered store and DotNetNuke Extensions Forge integration, Amazon S3 and Azure File Storage (Pro Only), E-Commerce (Pro Only), Sharepoint Integration (Pro Only), and new C# Code Base.

But how do you go about installing it whether to just try it out or actually develop a website based on DotNetNuke 6? This article will show you how in a 3 part series.

E-Commerce is short for Electronic Commerce and refers to the buying and selling of products and services over the Internet or other networks.  An increasing number of businesses have created e-commerce websites due to the rising popularity of using the Internet to make online purchases.

But also increasing is the risks of running a e-commerce website for a business; new ways to infiltrate and steal customer information from e-commerce websites are contently being discovered.

If your business does any marketing at all on the Internet, you should consider using Pay per Click (PPC) advertising as one tool available to you.  I will be talking specifically about Google Adwords here because they are the biggest player and a great place to start.

YouTube is awesome, who wouldn't agree?  Where else can you see a guy dancing about the room, only to step on a running treadmill that sends him flipping and tumbling to the floor, followed up by the keyboard cat playing him off? Well, a lot of places on this wonderful thing we call the inter-webs, I guess.  But in addition to providing the invaluable nonsense that wastes our days away, YouTube can be an incredibly valuable business tool as well.
 

The release of DotNetNuke Version 6.x has sparked a lot of people asking “Should I upgrade?”. Ultimately only you can answer that, but the real question you should be asking is “What should I expect?”.

So why bother?  You already have a website and you can see it on your phone when you plug in the URL, right?  Probably, unless you're using an iPhone and you have a flash website.  And, well, if you have a flash website, give us a call and we'll help get your website out of the Stone Age (but that's a blog post for another day).  But really, mobile websites are so much more than making things look pretty on your phone.

Need some content to fill a void in your website? Do you have a technology or sports website?  Displaying an RSS feed of news and articles can compliment your own website's content.

RSS known as "Really Simple Syndication" is used on websites to publish news and articles in a standard way so that many different reader programs can subscribe and read what is published.

In this article, I will show you how easy it is to display an RSS feed from another website on your own website. 

I have been a DNN fan since version 2.x or so.  Our relationship has had its ups and downs. Most of the time, it has been ‘up,’ since late versions of 4.9.  DNN 6 changes everything, and so far it looks like it changes everything for the better.

As much as I have liked DotNetNuke for years, I always kind of had to bite my lip when I showed the admin. interface to a client.  It was painful and unpleasant, but at least it worked.  The new admin. interface in DNN 6 promises to be much more user friendly and should make our clients much happier.
 

* Please Note: As of March 11, 2011 Facebook changed the way to add custom content to a Facebook page.  This article shows the new IFrame method. * Since the rise in popularity of Facebook, more and more companies have been creating Facebook pages which are an important marketing tool to connect with customers. 

Domains, Nameservers, and DNS are part of a system used by the Intranet to access websites and other resources using a human friendly, easy to remember names called domains.

Have you ever gotten so frustrated with trying to style content in DNN that you just completely started from scratch… more than once?

There are many modules out there on SnowCovered that you can purchase that allow you create and publish content. Often forgotten are the modules which allow you more easily manage your DotNetNuke installation. I call these Utility modules

Editing content in DNN is easy, but how do you change the colors or the layout of a skin?

Login using Active Directory Authentication with IIS 7.x using .NET 4.0 and the Intregrated Pipeline.

The benefits of upgrading your software in DotNetNuke and in general.