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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.

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...

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...

While cleaning up my laptop today I discovered some of the old design files I did a while ago but never shown it to anybody. If you're a long time user of DotNetNuke, you might remember the old DotNetNuke website look and feel (red theme) before it was using the Minimal Extropy skin.

DotNetNuke® has gained some great momentum over the past few years. But is it because I’ve been working with it for so long and being bias? Well, I don’t know but truth to be told, not many of my friends (who are also working in similar industry) or people that I’ve talked to know about it. Whether you’ve heard about it or not, Day of DotNetNuke® is a great opportunity to explore the project and meet some of the greatest minds in the community. Day of DotNetNuke® is a one-day event that is or...

Designing with grid has been around for decades and applied through various traditional design mediums. But in recent years, the trend to use this technique on the web has become quite popular since many influential web designers took the initiative to introduce it to the world. Among those is Khoi Vinh, a Creative Director for The New Yorks Times Online, and Mark Boulton, a well-know author for publishing his series of his approach in grid design. Many people have discussed the benefits o...