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Southern Fried DNN Blog

Southern Fried DNN User Group (Formerly Queen City DotNetNuke User Group QCDUG) blog covers DNN topics addressed by the usergroup at meetings, conventions and for the DNN community for North Carolina, South Carolina and the DNN community at large!
 

Sept 2024 SoFri: David Poindexter - Building a Custom DNN Theme Object

In this meetup, David Poindexter demonstrates development for a custom DNN theme object from scratch. He uses one of the barebones DNN Community starter projects to kickstart development and to keep things simple. You'll see how to turn simple requirements into a feature. The techniques learned here will serve as a foundation for development of other types of DNN extensions.
 

April 23 SoFri: Helpful DNN Tools & Utilities

The SouthernFried DNN User Group! This meeting's topic, a shared collection of Tools and Utilities for DNN shared by the SoFri DNN Community members!
 

Jan 2023 SoFri: Jeremy Farrance - I'm 2sxc for my Formula(s)

The 2sxc data editing UI was once a rigid and unforgiving way to edit your content and data. Over the last two years, Formulas and Prefill and related features have appeared. They've slowly become useful and now have matured to the point where magical (and sexy) things can be done. Jeremy will show some examples and highlight the key points that will get you started on making users love your content editing UIs!
 

Nov 2022 SoFri: Schfifty-Five - Five 5-Minute Gems from the Wolf X Machina Den

In a rapid-fire session, Aaron Lopez will share with you a small collection of his favourite (that's Canadian for "favorite") solutions that you can implement in your own DNN websites in about 5 minutes each. Want better typography? How about unique and friendly anchors on the page? These impactful but low-effort solutions will help you improve your DNN User Interfaces
 

Oct 2022 SoFri: DNN Platform 9.11.0 Release & Walkthrough

A DNN platform updates meeting that you shouldn't miss! We talk about the DNN Platform 9.11.0 release, along with a walkthrough of all the major highlights. David Poindexter from nVisionative discusses clean installs and all the various upgrade scenarios. It is a truly epic release, so this review be helpful for so many people!
 

June 2022 SoFri: DNN Security Headers - From an "F" to an "A" Grade!

SoFri's Ryan Moore leads a working session to explain and demonstrate several security header settings which can be made to the DNN web.config, which helps with the overall site security and presentation footprint. He'll explain items, plus shares code and testing tools involved.
 

July 2022 SoFri: Laura Pierson (Designing for Accessibility)

Designing for Accessibility - Web accessibility shouldn’t be an afterthought. It should be considered throughout the entire design and development process. Laura Pierson, of 10 Pound Gorilla, will cover best practices and helpful tools for designing ADA-compliant websites that are usable by everyone.
 
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