Entries for the 'Dot Net Nuke' Category

When DMC launched our new website a few months ago, we were quite happy with some of the new skills and tricks we learned.  One area where I learned quite a bit more, in particular, was CSS, or Cascading Style Sheets, and html style tags.  One issue we had to overcome involved centering images of varying or unknown size.  We use a content rotator module on our website.  There ... [Read the rest of this blog...]

It’s a common problem: “I have an ASP .Net data entry form and all of my users are mad at me because they closed their browser and they lost their unsaved data!” If I had a dollar for every time I had to re-enter my shipping address because I used my back button when the site creator didn’t want me to… well I’d have enough dollars to make the mistake a few more times, probably buying robot p... [Read the rest of this blog...]

When creating data entry forms in ASP .NET, the JavaScript onbeforeonload event can add a huge improvement to the end user experience. This nifty little event is fired before a page is unloaded (duh) and will keep users from navigating off of a page (and even from closing their browser) when they have unsaved changes on a data entry form. The onbeforeunload event behaves a bit oddly for an e... [Read the rest of this blog...]

Microsoft has just released Internet Explorer 8.  Unfortunately, some of the pages on our website have some issues when viewed with IE8's default settings.  In particular, the styling that we've done on our main page's tab control is causing issues.  Users can fix these issues on the client side by selecting compatibility mode (the button to the right of the URL field shown below). ... [Read the rest of this blog...]

We've launched our new and improved website.  We implemented our website in-house, so we have full control, allowing us to edit and add new content going forward.  We decided to go with a CMS to make this easier.  Asp.NET based Dot Net Nuke (DNN) was an obvious choice for us. Implementing the new website required efforts in many disciplines: graphic design and image editing, Asp.NE... [Read the rest of this blog...]