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Broken Forum Notifications Undermines Confidence

admin@eguanasolutions.com — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:59:00 GMT

After two years part of the DNN forums' "notification" feature is still not working despite DNN Corp's efforts to monetize DNN by offering "PRO" paid support. Note to DNN Corp: Paid support isn't an attractive option when the Corp's own website continues to exhibit already-fixed bugs...

DNN Hosting Tips: GoDaddy upgrade 04.09.00 to 04.09.05

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 07:08:00 GMT

Using GoDaddy's DNN auto-installation feature saves time and headache, but the installed version is still 04.09.00. Well here's the lowdown on upgrading from the auto-installed version to the latest 04.09.05 version...

Twitter Effect Affects Stats

admin@eguanasolutions.com — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:49:00 GMT

Yesterday our site visits spiked and we recorded a new high in unique daily visitors -- nearly 8% above the previous high. It seems that Twitter deserves some credit...

Greytness free DNN skin by Adammer

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:33:00 GMT

Wow...what a good, free skin from Adammer. I can't tell you how many times I've had to point clients towards "paid" skins when all they needed was a good, basic skin...

Free online EPS viewer

admin@eguanasolutions.com — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:02:00 GMT

I recently needed to do a quick visual verification of a client's .EPS file but was away from my system with the needed software. Google and I quickly located a suitable online solution but it was not as good as the _second_ solution I tried...

Network Solutions has (finally) added .Net 3.5 framework

admin@eguanasolutions.com — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:57:00 GMT

For much of the past year Network Solutions' users have asked for it. Today I confirmed that Network Solutions finally offers the .Net 3.5 framework...

Opinion: Non-professional "DNN Pros"

admin@eguanasolutions.com — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:50:00 GMT

I'm occasionally amazed how some people diminish their perceived expertise in obvious ways...

Inspector IT "Universal Tag Cloud" for DNN

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:12:00 GMT

A missing "Web 2.0" element from DNN is the now-ubiquitous Tag Cloud. Que Inspector IT: their new Universal Tag Cloud module does most everything you'd expect neatly and easily.

TIP: Enable substring search for DNN Search

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 04:15:00 GMT

For some reason I can't fathom, DNN Search does not perform substring searches. In this tip we'll look at the one-line tweak needed to enable this common search feature...

Prevent account sharing using the REPORTS module

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 09:59:00 GMT

DotNetNuke currently has no provision for preventing a user from sharing an account with other users. This is a real problem for paid-subscription sites. There is, however, a simple trick you can do using the REPORTS module that will help to prevent simultaneous logins on the same account by different users...