I have thought for a while now that I should do some SiteMap integration for a couple of modules, but I honestly never got around to getting it done.
Something triggered my need yesterday, and I got rolling with things rather quickly. Chris Paterra has a great post on how to implement a sitemap for your modules, I ended up implementing one for the DNNSimpleArticle module which powers the homepage of Solo2.org and SCCAForums.com. I also implemented it for the module that powers ChrisHammond.com, DNNBlogs.com, Project350z.com and DomoticsBlog.com
The basics are pretty straight forward for getting a SiteMap integrated with your custom modules. I won’t recreate Chris’ blog post here, but basically you need to create a new class, and populate a list of SiteMapUrls. Depending on your module, and it’s content, that may or may not be difficult.
I think I’m going to implement the sitemap for the next release of the Wiki module, should be fairly straightforward.
Many thanks to Jim over at www.stlrecruiting.com, yesterday he called me up for a quick interview and today he posts an article about me!
If you're looking for my Technical posts, check out my blog at http://weblogs.asp.net/christoc/. Just heads up though, for any posts you find that may seem odd ;), I use my blogs to do a lot of SEO work, so some posts may not seem to fit, but they all have a...
I've been doing some testing on a recent DNN module and noticed some issues that I think a 301 Redirect will handle.
Doing some quick googling I came up with the following topics to setup 301 redirects in asp.net.
http://www.wwwcoder.com/main/parentid/263/site/2668/68/default.aspx
http://scottwater.com/blog/archive/2004/04/14/PermanentRedirects.aspx
I'll be building this into the module tomorrow and will report back on the results in the next couple of weeks. Currently I've got a site with close 100 pages of content, but google is only seeing 6 of those pages. I'm thinking if I implement 301 redirects for a link tracker I'm using this may help. Time will...
There's only a few days left to vote for the DNN BOF Session at TechEd 2006. Be sure to get your votes...
I just went through and enabled HTTP Compression for the server that ChrisHammond.com, Solo2.org, and various other websites run on. Now, I can't tell if the difference is noticable, or if I just think it's noticable? hmmm
Followed the instructions in this article for setting up HTTP Compression on IIS...
If you're looking for the MHCC, Maryland Heights Chamber of Commerce then you should check out http://www.mhcc.com/. This is one of our client sites here at...
Just archiving a link for me to read...
If you are looking for DotNetNuke Reviews, I dug up a couple of things years ago, comparing DNN versus Sharepoint. The blog posts are from 2006, and while somewhat still valid, a lot of things have changed in both worlds. DotNetNuke provides a lot more features now than it did way back when. Sharepoint is still great for intranet setups.
Coming in DotNetNuke 6.0 Enterprise Edition there will be some Sharepoint integration available as a feature.
Google even tells me so!
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=excellent+programmer <--currently 5th on the search results for excellent programmer.
I will be number one, I will be the most excellent programmer of them...
Are you looking for an Excellent Programmer? You've found him! If you're looking for mad programming skills from an excellent person, you've come to the right place!
(inside...
I've been here in Lexington, Kentucky for the past 4 days. I was fortunate enough to meet two of the brightest minds in the industry! Also, I can't forget Chad Hobson (checkout that killer site, what mad skillz).
Anyways, back to the brightest minds. I got to meet Shaun Walker, founder of DotNetNuke, and Scott Willhite, one of the Board members for DotNetNuke. I of course got them to sign my DotNetNuke book while they were...
Sometimes, it's great to get to work with the best minds in the business and see how they work! I do lead a very good...
Lost is back! Thank goodness for the Tivo! I didn't realize it was starting back up tonight, but Tivo saved the day. I was at our DotNetNuke meeting tonight during the time Lost was...
If you're looking for St. Louis Dressage Training check out Natalie's...
The first St. louis DotNetNuke User's Group Meeting will be held on December 8th, 2005.
Be sure to check out DnNUG.com for more...
I decided today was the day to Upgrade Solo2.org.
I'm upgrading the software to run on CommunityServer 2.0 Beta 1. Here's to hoping the beta is at least semi stable! I've got all of the posts up through 9am downloaded and imported into a DB, now I'm working on converting them into a good CS format so I can get the site up and running tonight. I'm converting from a DNN/Ubb.Classic website to run Solo2.org fully out of...
Working on a customized version of the registration pages for dotnetnuke I needed a good regular expression to validate international phone numbers.
I ended up adding this line to my “register.aspx” page.
<asp:regularexpressionvalidator id="valTelephone2" runat="server" cssclass="NormalRed" display="Dynamic" errormessage="<br>Office Phone Must be Valid." controltovalidate="txtTelephone" resourcekey="valTelephone2" validationexpression="^(\(?\+?[0-9]*\)?)?[0-9_\- \(\)]*$"></asp:regularexpressionvalidator>
This requires no actual code behind changes, though I would recommend adding the proper information to your local resource file for language...
I've upgraded SoloPerformance.com.com to dotnetnuke 3.1.1 and put a new version of the DnnCart sofware up there as well.
The latest version of DnnCart has more friendly url changes, and is building links with friendly URLs using Category Names and Product names, which would help to increase our search...
I've got another blog to add to my list. My work blog. Nothing interesting there yet, but soon...
I've posted the presentation I gave at the STL DNUG last night, nothing major, actually just a trimmed down PPT of the presentation back in March at the VB UG.
You can download it...
I'm making another brief appearance at the St. Louis .Net User's Group meeting on Monday the 27th. I'll be giving a brief overview of dotnetnuke 3.1.
Though, their web site appears to be down right...
The latest and greatest version of dnn is released! Check it out for download here
I'll be getting DnnCart running on SoloPerformance.com later this week with the latest version of...
Check out the new dotnetnuke web site, one of the first steps in a major branding push for dnn. It's a great change, clean, easy to read, and I love the new...
Google has added some new sitemap functionality to their servers.
https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps
I'm going to research this more and post when I've got a better understanding of how it all...
If you're looking for a dotnetnuke book check out this one written by some of the dotnetnuke Core Team Members.
I believe there is a brief bio about all the DNN core team members, which means that I'm mentioned in the book! I've been in a few magazines, this will be my first book besides credits in some The Sporting News publications while I worked there.
Found a blog by WROX, looks like the book won't be in my hands for another week...