Entries for 'Cuong Dang'

Since the release of DotNetNuke 6.0, there have been quite a few conversations regarding z-index issues around navigation and the content area within a page. If you look closely in the overhaul process of DotNetNuke user interface, it's incorporated jQuery UI as the core enhancements in most of the controls. Image source: Smashing Magazine The framework also specified the z-index values (in default.css) mostly to control the positioning and calculation of the new module actions menu height a...

If you're running an online business I assume you have already designed your fan pages on Facebook. If you haven't I don't think it's too late to jump into the bandwagon and join everyone out there. Many companies like Intel or Nokia have their own design on this social network and it creates quite a nice experience for users instead of staring at the old blue default color of Facebook.

For those of you who are very tedious about front-end performance of websites, you’re probably already  familiar with a few techniques to minimize loading resources from the core DotNetNuke framework such as CSS and Javascripts. As long as those files are just for presentation and can be addressed in skin.css or skin.js, this approach helps tremendously with site performance and creates a much better experience for site visitors. I consider myself to be pretty detail-oriented when it comes...

Over the years I have been a strong web standards advocate and implemented most of my projects using its foundations. Since I joined DotNetNuke Corp. in mid-March, I was lucky to be part of the transformation of the administrative user interface (UI) to a modern standard. This effort brings many benefits to the platform for both business and end-users. If you are not familiar with many benefits web standards have to offer, I suggest reading a few helpful posts by the folks at Web Standards Proj...

It's been almost year since I last released Collaborate skin package. I designed and implemented it during the skin contest last year and won the Business category. I intended to get the Photoshop file updated and cleaned up after the contest but never got a chance. One thing led to the other and here I am a year from it.   Anyhow, I went back to this design and cleaned it up as well as made some minor updates to it. You can now download and make changes to it and do what you desire wit...

Joe Brinkman today announced DotNetNuke has decided to include DDRMenu by Mark Allan as part of 6.0 release. I once blogged about navigation options in DotNetNuke that designers should know. Depending on what type of feature set you’re looking for, the options availble can help accomplishing the design without writing custom provider. DDRMenu provides great flexibility in designing and styling your website navigation through its templating capability. It is more likely this will be the only na...