For those of you who are using DNNMenu (or DNNNav) from the core DotNetNuke framework, you might notice there is a huge change in DotNetNuke 5.x with the inclusion of DNNMenu version 2. The change for this webcontrol had not been well documented in details so people might find a hard time to get up to speed with what’s new when using it. As you may know, many experts in the DNN forum have been talking about eliminating SolPartMenu and start using DNNMenu for years when developing skins, but the...

Some claims DotNetNuke is notorious when it comes to performance. I beg to differ. Consider the advantage that you’ll get from using an enterprise-level platform for every web project can possibly build, a little bit of performance sacrifice is worth the tradeoff in my opinion. But that’s not the point. You can build DotNetNuke sites that have kick-ass performance if you do it the right way. There are many respected developers in the community have spoken about this specific topic, but rar...

When you're using terms and privacy skinobject for your web site, it will pull in the web administrator e-mail address to display as part of a way for visitors to communicate with a site's webmaster. If you are like me, just wanted to add something real quick and move on, you'll more likely to come back in the future when the project is done and find a way to correct it. Well, remember during the process of installing DotNetNuke or creating a new portal for your project, you are asked to prov...

Recently I had an opportunity to play with UnloadCSS skinobject from Timo Breumelhof. What a nifty little tool to use for your front-end performance optimization. I wrote an article a while back about cleaning up your default.css from the framework (or just get rid of it). There are many unnecessary CSS files get loaded within the framework (not to mention some not-so-good practices in CSS coding techniques within these files) that a web designer wants to take control of. Default.css is one of ...

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...