I have been blogging about and involved in user groups for a long time.  During this time, I have had the pleasure of seeing all kinds of things happen – some bad, but about 99% of the things were overwhelmingly good.  Great, in fact.  I want to talk about why and how the good comes about now.

Use groups can be traced back to the 1950’s, when mainframe computers were being used to do some pretty amazing things.  Unlike today, information about information systems was difficult to come...

Please take 10 minutes today to read a blog post by Cathal Connolly, the DotNetNuke Security Team lead.  He gives DotNetNuke specific advice and the exact steps you need to take to protect your DNN websites (and any other public ASP.Net site), while we wait for Microsoft to release an official update for you to apply to your servers. 

ASP.NET Security Vulnerability workaround for DotNetNuke sites

Please note in Cathal’s blog...

When you run any website, there are inevitably changes to be made to it.  While you might get a point where your work on it pauses, the time comes back again when you need to perform updates.  Oftentimes, these updates will include new pages and/or new page structure.

Menu and Pages If you’re just adding a new page to a site, no problem.  But what if you’re moving your pages around?  For example, what if you begin with a simple top-level menu like in the image below?

 

At some point, you will likely need to add more pages as your site grows.  Perhaps you need to add more pages like Support, Social Media, and News. ...

I feel a bit overwhelmed right now.  I haven’t presented at any community events in at least a couple of months, and I have somehow found myself committed to 7 different public presentations at 4 different events in 4 different cities over the next 2 months – and that’s not including 2 huge presentations that are not public.

I am not complaining though.  I wouldn’t agree to any of them if I didn’t enjoy it.  I just didn’t realize...

In a previous blog entry, I spoke about how you can add portals to your DotNetNuke website, but one of you pointed out that I didn’t speak to why one might choose to have multiple portals on a single instance of DNN versus having an instance of DNN for each website.  At first, I was shocked, “Why did I not think to speak about that?!”  However, as it sunk in, I am happy that I didn’t speak about it then.  This topic certainly deserves its own post.

What is an Instance? Before I begin, I want to specify what I mean by instance in this post.  Even though this definition doesn’t really change for me, and instance of DNN can be defined as a single file system and IIS reference to an installation of DotNetNuke.  You can and probably do have a varied definition, but this will serve our needs for this post.

Comparing Multi-Portal vs. Single Portal Instances Need a new site?  Just add it to the DNN site you already have.  You don’t have to waste...