In this podcast we discuss the importance of backups and why relying on your hosting provider to backup your website is not enough. We cover a personal horror story from not backing up and we talk about the various ways to backup your DNN websites, how to automate backups, how to send them to the cloud and the DotNetNuke modules that are available for creating backups and upgrading your DotNetNuke websites.

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In this podcast we discuss how to correctly set up email in DotNetNuke and understanding SMTP and the common traps to avoid. We also look at working with maps and map modules in DotNetNuke and the powerful uses for Google Maps and Google Earth.

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This is a video interview with Paul Deschenes from Advologix.com discussing Software as a Service (SaaS) and an application he has developed using ListX. We discuss the process of developing a SaaS application and the benefits of Software as a Service over store purchased products. Paul then shows us an example of how he set up the ListX module and finally how to manage a SaaS architecture within DotNetNuke.

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Live video interview presentation with Dave Snow from Aging Safely Inc. This is a live walk through of Dave’s DotNetNuke website. Dave is a subscriber to DNN Creative Magazine. He has taken the CSS skinning tutorials and applied some of the principles to his own skins while also adapting the CSS to suit his own needs.

Dave’s site is interesting in that it implements a pure CSS skin along with some interesting use of 3rd party modules, so I thought it would be good to do a video interview with Dave and ask him to walk us through his DotNetNuke website. This video goes into the full detail of looking through the modules and skins on the website as an administrator.

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