At Web Ascender, we have the pleasure of working with a wide range of organizations, from small startups and local non-profits to Fortune 500 and publicly owned companies. While the reasons we love working with our clients are as diverse as our clients themselves, it is always rewarding to work with clients who make a mission of positively impacting their…
Apple’s iPad Tablets are perfect devices for showcasing your product or service offerings in a fun and interactive manner to prospective customers. It can be integrated into your conference booth display or mounted in a kiosk in your office entryway or waiting area. The iPad is well suited as an interactive sales and marketing display for your customers, and its…
The Rails and Ruby communities are huge and highly active. There is a constant flux of new projects, changes and improvements. As with most technological niches, keeping up with the latest Ruby on Rails news can be pretty intimidating. But if you know where to look, you can cut down on a lot of the time you could be spending…
Social media can be a great way of keeping consumers informed about events, promotions, and news related to your business or your industry, but in order to take full advantage of the access to these consumers offered by social media, providing seamless transitions across each digital platform that you occupy, including your website, is essential. Integrating social media into your…
One of the great benefits of DotNetNuke is the ability to run multiple websites using the same DotNetNuke installation and database. Each website within your DotNetNuke installation is also referred to as a Portal. DotNetNuke can easily run hundreds of Portals on a single install. After DotNetNuke is first setup, there will be a default Portal which is usually used…
Control Panel After logging in as a website Administrator or Super User (Host) you will then see the Control Panel at the top of the page. This control panel allows you to add pages, edit page information, add modules to pages, and perform some site-level actions such as managing Users and Files. Modes There are three modes: View, Edit and…
The Forms and Lists module is a very versatile module that allows you to collect, save, and display data as you see fit. For example, you can create a list of staff, employee contact information, documents, articles, and many other things. You can control exactly what data is collected, and you can even control how it is displayed if you are willing…
Pages are the fundamental building block for the navigation and content on your website. DNN allows you to create as many Pages as you like, and Pages can be organized into Parent/Child relationship (sub-pages) to form the navigation structure of your site. A DNN Page can hold as many Modules as you like, and you can re-arrange the Modules on the page…
Modules are the true functional elements of DotNetNuke. The majority of the items that you and your users will be interacting with are modules. After you have added a page or are on an existing page you will have Pane elements. You can see your Panes by switching your DNN mode in the far upper left from Edit to Layout. You will then be…
One of the many benefits of DotNetNuke is the ability to easily control which users of the website can see and interact with what content. You can control the security and settings at the Page and Module level. This is useful if you wanted to create sections of your website that are for registered website users, members only, or for employee only…
