As promised that I made the slide deck available for download here at my personal site from the DayOfDNN event in Florida. For those of you who are new to DotNetNuke, the two sessions I presented might not make much sense but if you take good notes, you will find them very helpful when you got to know more about DotNetNuke.

Anyway, the session “Bridging the Gap between Module Developers and DotNetNuke Designers” I presented is geared towards individuals who have good understanding of DotNetNuke in general. It is helpful for those who want to design DotNetNuke web site that will comply with DotNetNuke standards. Also for developers, the process of making your modules look pretty is no longer your responsibility. For more details about the sessions, please download the presentation below.

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With the overwhelming requests from the community, Engage is finally offered the web-based training solution for DotNetNuke®—Virtual Classroom. The team and I are pretty excited to be part of this offer along with other training channels.

Since Engage became the official DotNetNuke® training provider, we mainly focus on classroom and on-site training. These training offers have been well-received, however, there is another large community out that finds many difficulties in traveling across the world to attend our classes in St. Louis. Our web-based training will be very beneficial to all sorts of people from different backgrounds.

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If you’re big into video games, Electronic Arts (EA) has recently launched its global portal to provide larger interaction with its community out there. One good impression that I see when first visiting the site is that it features a user-friendly rotating banner.

The homepage show different video games through large banners with progress indicators from bottom of the banners. These indicators tell you how long the banner will be available until it switches to the next game. When you hover to it, you can either view more details or purchase the video games right at the front page.

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It’s been a while since I visited Facebook to see what friends have been up to. I was surprised to see the new homepage design when I logged in today. I got to say the team at FB did a good job in putting this little change together. One thing I notice is that they are trying to mimic the look and feel of LinkedIn.com.

If you’re on LinkedIn, you’ll see the two home pages are somewhat identical from the left navigation to middle content and right column for advertising.

They organized the left navigation into different groups and categories. Even the status update area is similar to each other. Here are the screenshots to compare if you aren’t familiar with LinkedIn.

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We have been working on a few projects and used a simple Tell-a-Friend module to allow visitors to the site share their favorite sites or stories. Ian took the initiatives and be nice to offer this module to the community for free.

Engage: Tell-a-Friend is a simple module with a clean interface (for admin and end-user). The intention is to create a simple module that demonstrates some of the best practices in DotNetNuke module development at Engage.

The module comes with two types of display, inline display and modal pop-up. You can set the URL and custom message on your module when it sends an e-mail to the recipients.

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