Day Of DNN Chicago

Manage Thousands of Clients in One Installation with Multi-Portal Functionality from DotNetNuke

One of the features of DotNetNuke that has helped web design firms and vertical niche businesses the most is the ability to host multiple portals in a single installation. For applications that serve a vertical niche and provide the same or similar website configurations to multiple clients, DotNetNuke makes it simple to spin up websites very quickly and ease maintenance by using a single installation. In this session, participants will learn how to make a uniform template for websites, configure IIS so that websites can be created without logging into the server, pitfalls to avoid, and QA procedures to make upgrading to future DotNetNuke versions a smooth process.

Introduction to jQuery for DotNetNuke – Javascript is Fun Again!

If the first time you heard about jQuery was when Microsoft announced that they were shipping it with .NET 3.5 SP1 and you've been putting off checking it out, this session is for you. In this session, participants will get an introduction to using jQuery. The session will begin with how to include jQuery in your skin or module project then quickly ramp up to how to use the query syntax to make interacting and modifying with the HTML on your page as easy as using CSS.

The session will wrap up with DotNetNuke specific tips and tricks on how to keep the jQuery framework from conflicting with DotNetNuke, connecting to WCF services for server side data, and using module settings to control jQuery extensions behavior.