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Read about our Hackathon entry on my personal blog: My Messages Inbox: A Mobile DotNetNuke Application for the St. Louis DNN Hackathon then go vote!

The CodePlex Foundation enables the exchange of code and understanding among software companies and open source communities. That’s HOT. When CodePlex Foundation asked us to help enhance the features and design of their website we were giddy. Not only did this project allow us to do some exciting work, but we jumped at the chance to work with an organization whose mission we could get behind.

As the branding changed and the site grew, the foundation's website easily adapted. The skinning features of DNN allowed us to completely redesign the website without losing content. As more galleries and projects became a part of the foundation, the website easily welcomed the new content. Additionally, each gallery and project owner now has the ability to manage their information. The leadership at the foundation is frequently providing news, announcements, and blogs on their website.

Engage: Serene is our latest DotNetNuke 5 skin, whose design is based on simplicity, clean white space, and balance. The skin is designed using CSS and minimal images for the best performance, and comes with 6 different color options, four layouts, and 6 containers. Each layout is carefully spaced to give the site even weight and balance, and when combined with the multiple containers, gives your content a clear and custom way to shine. The skin package includes the original Photoshop file for easy customization, 6 unique colors, 4 layouts, and 6 containers.

Engage: Fresh Engage: Fresh is a new DotNetNuke 5 skin that emphasizes simplicity and flexibility. The skin is designed using CSS and minimal images for performance, and comes in 12 different colors. The skin package comes with the Photoshop design file for easy customization, 12 unique colors, and 7 containers. Fresh is designed to be so flexible that it could be applied to any website for a fresh, clean look.

For all you Apple fans and DNN users, I'm proud to announce the release of our latest commercial skin, Engage: Pure. This skin package was designed with a minimalistic and uniform approach, using no images and modern css3. Engage: Pure features six unique color combinations and six sleek containers (two of which are unique to each color). Every layout option has multiple panes, giving you freedom as to how your content is displayed on your site. Like all of our skins here at Engage, Engage: Pure is using a web-standards approach. For the CSS3 used, IE 7 and 8 users will have the same look and feel, just flat colors and sharp corners.

I really wanted the title of this blog post to be “Customizing the Telerik Rad Editor with DNN to Reinforce Consistent Content Administration Practices for your Content Editors and Other Implications of using Telerik Rad Editor as your Default HTML Editor in DNN” but that may have been a tad too long.

In DotNetNuke 5.4.0, the community edition of the platform included the Telerik RAD Editor. This is an exciting new development for the community edition of DNN. The flexibility of the HTML editor in DNN is one of the most commonly overlooked features. For most content editors, the HTML editor might be their only interaction with the system. For this reason, customizing the HTML editor for your content administrators is crucial to user adoption and creating a friendly workspace for your editors.

This blog entry is going to apply some of the same concepts from a previous blog entry for the FCKEditor, Optimizing the FCKEditor for DNN, but as an evaluation of the Telerik RAD Editor for DNN. Chris Hammond introduced how to include these features on your site in a blog on DNN Daily. I’m going to build upon his implementation instruction with some opinionated configuration recommendations.

Over the past few years, Engage has done a lot in the DotNetNuke Training space. Some highlights include:

• launching a DNN training program from scratch
• developing a great training DNN curriculum
• partnering with DotNetNuke Corp. to become an Official DotNetNuke Training Provider
• training hundreds of individuals and many groups of people at major corporations, government entities and learning institutions around the world
• creating alternative learning channels with live and on-demand webinars, DVD video training and e-Learning formats

This time and effort has been both exciting and challenging. Our biggest challenge has been reaching everyone who needs instructor-led DNN Training. Today we are pleased to announce the next chapter in our DotNetNuke Training adventure. Engage has again partnered with DotNetNuke Corp., this time to help launch a major initiative: the DotNetNuke Training program.

We recently released a new version of Engage: Rotator which featured four new templates to display rotating content on your DotNetNuke site.

Engage: Element is our latest commercial skin package release, including five bold color combinations, six unique containers, and three main layouts. Each layout choice comes with multiple panes designed to make your content shine whether you use all the panes together or just a few per page. Engage: Element is using the web standards approach, each layout is built with XHTML/CSS with some CSS3 enhancements (sorry IE users, you will not see text shadows). The skin itself has been cross-browser tested across most popular browsers. This skin is made to be flexible, easily accommodating any site small or large.

Engage: Folio is a minimal skin utilizing some CSS3 and javascript to give it a bit more style. Engage: Folio is based on another free wordpress template, Simple Folio created by Slimmity. We created containers to mimic the styles usd on the Simple Folio demo page, and created a custom rotator template to resemble the image slider featured. Look for that template in the next release of Engage: Rotator later this month!