Over the last two weeks, I have learnt a bit about developing skins for DNN (DotNetNuke).  My first lesson was the fragility of tableless skins.  The first five days of my journey was devoted primarily to designing layouts under XHTML Strict and found that there are current a couple bugs in DNN for this doctype along with the typical limitations of CSS as implemented in the latest browsers.  One of the primary issues is allowing for overflowing content, which can happen at times.  The only solution that is durable enough for general use is the old method of table layouts,...

There is output compression built into IIS 5.0 and later, but it is disabled by default.  Below is instructions how to enable it. With HTTP Compression enabled, IIS will compress with “gzip” or “deflate” the file types you list as it feeds the page to the browser.  On the client end it will decompress the file and will act as if it read the entire uncompressed file.  This is built into most late model browsers.  If it feeds a page to a browser which does not support compression, it will send out the uncompressed page. I have this setup on my sites...

My original .Text blog handles all my posts and any topic.  I decided to split the blog up and have just a Dev blog. Over the next few weeks I will begin to get some posts in here. One of the posts I plan for this space is a new DNN generic data store module I am woking on that allows a person to design new modules without the need of specific database data stores (tables, stored procedures, etc).  This means modules will be able to function on different databases without change.  Anyway, more on this coming shortly along with the free...