How to Add a Customizable Homepage in Elgg 1.8

Last Updated on Friday, 5 October 2012 01:40 Written by Rodolfo Hernandez Tuesday, 9 October 2012 12:00

Elgg is a very flexible social networking platform. However if you want to customize the homepage, you had to edit code. Now is different, you can edit it without editing any code.  In this article I will give you a step by step guide on how to create a customizable home page in elgg 1.8

1. To have a customizable homepage, we will use a tool called Homepage CMS for elgg 1.8 You can download it here

2. After downloading the plugin, upload the plugin to the mod folder of your Elgg network to install it. If you don’t know how to do that, please read this article.

nopCommerce Tips: How to Add a Custom Page, Part 2

Last Updated on Friday, 5 October 2012 01:40 Written by Carole Bennett Monday, 8 October 2012 12:00

In Part 1, we covered how to create a custom page in nopCommerce using the Topic technique; today, we’ll cover how to create a new page that supports multiple features, such as topics and widgets.

My client wanted a page for a gallery, which needed a slideshow in addition to the topic. In order to leverage one of the slider widgets, we needed to go beyond the simple topic solution covered in Part One.

We’ll start out with the usual disclaimer; these instructions presume you at least have Visual Studio Express 2010, and have opened up your solution in Visual Studio. Now that we’ve got that out of the way, let’ s begin.

1. Open the Nop.Web/Infrastructure folder, and open RouteProvider.cs

nopCommerce Tips: How to Add A Custom Page, Part 1

Last Updated on Friday, 5 October 2012 01:38 Written by Carole Bennett Saturday, 6 October 2012 12:00

nopCommerce is a top-notch e-commerce system, one of the best open-source .Net-based e-commerce applications available. However, it can be a bit less than straightforward to add additional content to a nopCommerce implementation. Clients may request additional content such as informational pages on the background and history of their products, or a gallery to display previous designs or products. Here’s two ways to accomplish that with nopCommerce.

The first method is the most straightforward; creating a topic, and linking to the topic in your menu. You will be limited to HTML-based content, which will be fine for most purposes, but won’t include widget support. Here are the steps for this method:

1. Log into your nopCommerce instance as an administrator, and access the Admin area

nopCommerce Tips: Adding a Custom 404 Page

Last Updated on Sunday, 30 September 2012 04:17 Written by Carole Bennett Monday, 1 October 2012 12:00

It’s highly recommended for a website to have a customized 404 page. Customized 404 pages provide an opportunity to re-direct site visitors to areas of interest and focus, and maintain branding visibility. At this time, nopCommerce (2.65) doesn’t have a built-in 404 customization solution. However, there is a way to implement one, using the MVC framework nopCommerce is based on.

I’d like to express my appreciation to nopCommerce forum user “Threadrock“, who posted the link to Dave Bouwman’s how-to article “Custom 404 Pages for ASP.NET MVC 3“.  In this article, Dave Bouwman covers the steps to create your custom 404 route for an MVC solution. Since nopCommerce is based on Asp.Net MVC, you’ll find the detailed explanation to be very helpful. In the following summary, it’ll be assumed that you’re working from Visual Studio 2010, working on the source version (which can be downloaded from here).

To cover the highlight steps:

Silverlight: How To Create Custom Splash Screen

Last Updated on Sunday, 2 September 2012 02:34 Written by Andrew Ivanov Monday, 17 September 2012 12:00

If your XAP is large, the download time might be long and you need something to show the user whilst it’s happening – create a custom XAML based splash screen.

Silverlight: How To Create Custom Splash Screen from UserNT on Vimeo.

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