The Outsourcing Myth
The April 2005 issue of Wired Magazine has interesting subject matter on the “infoporn” page. “The Outsourcing Myth” provides information on the state of outsourcing. As people who go...
Auto-hide DotNetNuke Control Panel
The DotNetNuke Control Panel is generally positioned at the top of a page (although it can be positioned anywhere). It is displayed if a user has administrative rights...
Ask Nik: Getting the ModuleId of a module from its container
nokiko asks: I am working on some new containers and dnn enhancements. I want to know in my container which moduleid is loaded so lets say i have...
Microsoft to acquire Groove
I have been a user of Groove products since its early beta. Mostly because of my Lotus Notes roots and my firm belief that Ray Ozzie is one...
Ask Nik: User selectable font sizes for web page
How do you create a page that allows a user to select the font size? Nik’s answer: You can do this using CSS or Javascript or a combination...
Stretch DIV to height of table cell
I am working on a web app that consists of a treeview on the left and content on the right. The basic layout is a table with the...
Making DNN skinning work with Das Blog
Das Blog has its own skinning solution which consists of “themes” defined in web.config, corresponding to theme sub-folders that contain templates. The templates are basically HTML fragments with...
DotNetNuke 3.x stability
The current DotNetNuke release (3.0.11) is quite stable and I think it will not be very long before we see a Release Candidate. This is the first release for...
Table-less design rant
I have had it with designing cross-browser web pages without tables. OK, I get it. An HTML table was never intended to be used for pixel-perfect design layouts....
How to preserve EXIF data when rotating/resizing JPEG images
.Net allows you to do some amazing things with graphics using GDI+. Its handling of image meta data leaves something to be desired though. It’s like they started...