New release of the 40 Fingers Style Helper skin object (V01.05.00)

The Style  Helper skin object allows you to load  css and javascript files in the head of the page from you DotNetNuke skin, directly or conditional, based on all kind of properties.

New Feature:

You can now inject a CSS class to the page Body tag. This allows styling of specific page in the same skin.

Bug Fixes:

- Javascript files are is now Injected after jQuery (the was not the case before)
- You can now use spaces after the comma in you RemoveCssFile attribute.

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Quite often, DotNetNuke website administrators turn to specialized YouTube modules to include a YouTube movie on their website. The good news is, however, that YouTube movies can be embedded easy enou...

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There are a lot of posts in the DotNetNuke forums about cross-browser issues in a DotNetNuke skin.
The problem is mostly that the skin does not render the same in Internet Explorer and Firefox.
As most of these issues are quite easy to prevent / solve, here's how to prevent most of them.

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Windows 2008r2 is good in so many ways, I can never list them all. Of course, being the server variant of Windows 7, it means you can use all the nice interface enhancements that are also available in Windows 7.

Both Windows 7 and Windows 2008r2 have IIS 7.5 on board. One of the most interesting enhancements in IIS 7.5 is something called the Application Pool Identity (AppPoolIdentity). In Windows 2008r2 this is the default setting for new application pools. With this setting, IIS can create a unique virtual windows account, using the name of the application pool. Accounts created like this have the same networking capabilities as the well known NETWORKSERVICE account, however, because they are unique, they can also be used to secure physical files in your system.

So, lets see how we can use this to quickly install DotNetNuke in a secure manner.

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This is the documentation for the of the new Style Helper skin object on Codeplex.
This is a skin object I started in 2007, but never got to making it releasable.
And now i decided I should finally finish it..
(I will add a some extra functionality later this year)

I would appreciate it if you would test the skin object and give feedback / report issues (on Codeplex).

Download: stylehelper.codeplex.com/

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In order to prepare for an upcoming move of all sites hosted on our webservers to a new location, one of the tasks was to list which sites are served by IIS, including all hostheaders defined for those sites. The purpose of this list is to identify all domains we are handling.

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Changing text styles During text editing a lot of people are confused as to what the editor does if you set a certain style to a selection of text. Sometimes the editor assignes a style to more then...

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I often get data from clients in Excel or XML format, which I have to convert to some kind of XML like format. Mostly this is a one time conversion for which a custom solution is not viable....

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By seperating appearance from behaviour, you will decrease ther depency between developers and designers in your project. Both use there specialized set of skills, leading to good clean design and code.

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By following the official Google Webmasters blog and related online presentations, you can learn a great deal about the SEO in a short amount of time. The video below is about 'snippets', t...

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The DNN text editor also contains a nifty little spell checker. It is a tool that works in IE and needs to be installed on your local machine first. Once installed, it works like a breeze and hel...

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These days there are ample opportunities to spice up one’s website with so-called Web 2.0 features by means of javascript functions. We have realized it on this website using jQuery library. jQuery i...

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