In the past few weeks on my personal blog I have published articles on "Selecting a DotNetNuke Hosting Provider" as well as "Shared, Virtual Private Server, Dedicated or Cloud Hosting". Between these two articles the topic of hosting selection has been pretty well discussed, however, based on questions/comments that have been provided to us s...
We would like to bring some attention to the 2009 OpenForce Connections event that will be occuring November 9-12 in Las Vegas. This event has been a must-attend item for us in years past and 2009 is shaping up the same way. This year Mitchel will be presenting on the topic of DotNetNuke performance and we will also have a booth in Expo...
For quite some time now Tony Valenti from PowerDNN, has been telling us that we should swing over and take a tour of their operation. They are headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, which is only a two-hour drive from Des Moines. After what has to be almost a year now, we found the time and met with Tony and a few of his staff members on Sat...
Today DotNetNuke Corporation sent out another issue of the Community Newsletter, in the founders message they announced the details of the much anticipated DotNetNuke Core Team re-arrangement. Part of this announcement included the addition of myself as a DotNetNuke Core Team Member. This has been something I've been working for quite a...
Over the past few months IowaComputerGurus has fielded more and more questions surrounding the "how" part of DotNetNuke module/extension development. Along with these questions have been requests for "best practices" and other general information that if followed will help developers create solutions that work well within the DotNetNuke platf...
We just wanted to take a moment to share a testimonal letter we received from a recent customer. He was looking for a custom developed DotNetNuke Module.
"I was recently looking for a specific DotNetNuke module and couldn’t find it anywhere. I then began to look for companies who custom built modules. This was getting into unkn...
One of the most common questions that I have been asked over the past 1-2 years is; "How do you make DotNetNuke perform well?". Over the past few months I have given a few presentations on basic configuration elements and how you can tune DotNetNuke for the best performance possible. I will also be giving a presentation on the topic at ...
Well, somehow “a week or two” turned into 10 months since I posted part 1 of this case study. Since then, DotNetNuke 5.1 brought a minor improvement to DNN’s XML sitemap implementation and has grown more web standards compliant, but other than that the points discussed so far in regards to SEO still apply. With that in mind, let’s refer back to my ...
One of the big things that IowaComputerGurus has done over the years is to create a network of service providers and product vendors. This has allowed usto provide a full range of service, including items outside of our functional area. The process that we follow to select these vendors for recommendation is a farily complex operation and at minimum includes our usage of their services. We do not believe in simply linking to products/companies unless we not only believe in the products offered, but in the ongoing support that is provided. Why is this important? Why are we blogging about this under a "Customer Service and Customer Retention" blog?
Recently on Twitter we noticed a discussion regarding another DotNetNuke vendor and how their website was not based on the DotNetNuke platform. The discussions that followed came to a very clear conclusion, the act of dogfooding the technology you work with is very important. For example, a company that "specializes" in DotNetNuke solutions and uses Joomla to manage their corporate website portrays a conflicted image, either intentionally or not. We have noticed this since the beginning of our company and have taken a unique approach to the management of our website and I thought it would be nice to share a bit on how we see our website impacting our potential customers.