Saturday, September 04

Testing DNN Events Module using Selenium IDE

A quick introduction to using Selenium IDE to assist in testing the DNN Events module. Includes a short video.  

Custom Error Page

After updating my site I thought it was about time I added a custom error page. The default error page is not very elegant and something a little nicer was required.  

Colour is King

Colour is very important when designing a skin. With this in mind Nucleus includes a number of features to assist you.  

Create dws.ie skin in 5 minutes

I have uploaded another video showing how to create the skin used on this site. The total process takes less than 5 minutes. However the idea took a little longer ;)  

Remember Me!

Remember Me is a simple module allowing you to update the timeout values in your web.config file.  

Create a new container

Reactor is the first Nucleus compatible skin. A Nucleus compatible skin is a skin for which there exists an editor. Confused? Let me explain ...  

Nucleus is born

In September of 2009, Vasilis, of Think of Design, asked me if I had seen his blog on Skinning Utopia. As it happened I had recently read it and thought, "that would be nice", never thinking I would be involved in its birth. We began regular correspondence on the subject and soon produced some code allowing us change the colours in a skin with live preview in the browser. This excited us both and ... 

Resource file with popup.aspx in DotNetNuke

Today I spent quite some time trying to load label text from a resource file into a pop up aspx. My resource file PDF_PopUp.aspx.resx contained the required text but I just could not get it to load.  

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