Efficion is hard at work on a new Professional Social Networking site for Pharmacists and the Pharmacy industry. Dynalabs has contracted Efficion Consulting to create rxSpace.com. RxSpace will provide a sounding board for pharmacy students, pharmacists, pharmacy owners and academia to discuss, debate and initiate conversations on topics and issues relevant to their fields. Learn More...

This new website for St. Louis Art Works, built on the DotNetNuke CMS platform, features Online Giving, an online store, AJAX based rotator, image galleries, an advanced Events module, and much more. The site was designed to let ArtWorks staff easily add new content to the site while also utilizing a variety of advanced CMS tools to keep site content fresh. St. Louis Art Works new site.

The for profit wing of DotNetNuke, the DotNetNuke Corporation, announced an infusion of funding today from a couple venture captical firms. As someone who's livelihood is intricately tied to DNN, I've got mixed feelings about this news. While I fully appreciate that the new funding should help take DotNetNuke to the next level, both from a features and functionality as well as a marketing and penetration perspective, it also worries me that priorities may shift, revenue may trump the "common good", and everything may get more profit minded and expensive. So, we'll just have to wait and see...

"As a school with a limited budget, we were very pleased with the pricing, speed, and design of our new site! We're already seeing great returns!"

"Efficion was able to create a new site design for us within a very short time frame. We are extremely appreciative of Efficion's efforts to go above and beyond for us when asked."

eTailer from Emerald Solutions is a fairly new entry in the DNN e-commerce world. While there is a great deal of promise in the product, my brief attempt at using it seems to indicate it's not ready yet...

Purchasing, downloading, and installing it went smoothly. eTailer adds a reasonable 5 modules to your DNN install (much better than the 23+ modules Catalook adds). Initially getting things setup and going seemed quite intuitive.  I created a new page and added the "eTailer Store Front module". It had a nice obvious link that allowed me to Add/Modify Products. And so I was off and running, or so I thought...

UPDATE: The developer recently notified he was going to step away from DNN development for 6 months. To me, this means you need to stay clear of this product as there's no guaratee it will continue to be improved or supported.

 DotNetNuke 4.8 added Human Friendly urls, but unlike Friendly URLs, it can only be enabled through the web.config. To enable human friendly urls, replace:

<add name="DNNFriendlyUrl" type="DotNetNuke.Services.Url.FriendlyUrl.DNNFriendlyUrlProvider, DotNetNuke.HttpModules" includePageName="true" regexMatch="[^a-zA-Z0-9 _-]" />

with:

<add name="DNNFriendlyUrl" type="DotNetNuke.Services.Url.FriendlyUrl.DNNFriendlyUrlProvider, DotNetNuke.HttpModules" includePageName="true" regexMatch="[^a-zA-Z0-9 _-]" urlFormat="HumanFriendly" />

 Efficion partnered with ITArchitechs in the creation of a website for Mid-America Cold Storage. Mid-America Cold Storage lies within a retired 6 million square foot Limestone Quarry nestled in a bluff just outside of St. Louis. As with most of our sites, this site is built with DotNetNuke making it easy for the client to update site content themselves.

We need to start upgrading our skins from the older RAD Menu to the newer RAD Ajax Menu. This article will go through the steps involved.

Telerik Migration Guide

I'm so tired of people discounting HTML Tables. I'm a huge fan of CSS, I'm fully aware that it is possible to do columns using CSS, but in order to do so, you have to use a variety of hacks, and those hacks change based on a variety of circumstances.

With DNN, because we have skinning, we already have the needed separation between content and presentation. Tables are the best way to handle columns. They are rendered consistently across browsers, are clean, and easy to read and use, and provide capabilities that are very hard to get without Javascript hacks in CSS.

I've spent countless hours trying to work around problems with my CSS based columns due to one need or another. I've researched many approaches to the best way of handling them. None of the solutions I've seen have proven to be nearly as clean and easy as just using tables.

If you continue to feel compelled to build tableless designs, go for it, perhaps you'll have better luck than I, but when you have a complex need and you can't find a solution that works consistently in all browsers, I give you permission to just go ahead and use a Table.