For this very reason on this occasion we have number of special offers for you. For this month’s we have reduced the prices of all our Packaged skins by 20%. For Custom work given to us during this month’s we pledge to give 2 free skins so you can apply them to any other site you may have.

We have made further improvements to the Accessibility Module we have produced please see our SkinPack with this great Accessibility Control panel.

The other news is that the updates to the search issue on all our packaged skins are available. So please. If you have an old packaged skin that suffers from the new search UI inconsistencies with our original designs, then we do have a traditional search version to give you. Just email with a proof of purchase, us and we will email the corrected skin back to you.

We have now made further progress towards XHTML compliancy with our new packaged skins and any new custom skin we produce. Any new releases of skins are running on 4.81 would be using the new DNN menu and combined with streamlined minimum table maximum DIV layouts. and therefore, they will have a much better compliancy for XHTML.

Until recently, most skinners had to use a lot of tables to ensure that the content panes did not break up when legacy DNN modules were applied to them.

SolpartMenu slowly is being phased out, we would now be suggesting that you should consider to change the skin that we have previously produced for you to either Telerik Menu or one of the more advanced third party menus available for DNN. DNN's own new default Nav Menu is also fairly XHTML compliant; however, it still has some issues with iphone. Nevertheless, it should prove much faster and cross browser compatible, and since Jon Henning is one of the main core team members, therefore he would ensure that the menu is improved with every revisions on DNN.

Please note that some of the new mobile devices such as the extremely popular iphone, do need Telerik or some of the newer third party menus to comply with these mobile devices.

Please fill out the quotation form or just email me direct at support (at) salaro (dot) net and we would be very happy to quote a great price for you.

skins.dotnuke.net is a new demo site for all our packaged skins. This site is developed for, Hosters, resellers or Consultants that would like to show our skins to their clients as their own. since we don't show any SalarO branding on this site.

Once your clients agree on a skin, you can purchase them from us and add your own markups.

If you are buying more than one, then please contact us by using the feedback form and ask us for appropriate discount scheme on large numbers of the skins.

SalarO's new store has been very successful. Please see the way the store operates. I am sure you will agree that it is probably the easiest store to operate. We have now finished a portal for PinkandBlueGifts. This Portal was designed and completely populated by SalarO team and uses the new combination of DNN modules to deliver the functionality required. We are in the process of building a Portal to promote the tools for you to build one like it.

See us here so we can help you build your store using this set of versatile modules.

We find the DNN 4.8.2 to be the most stable release yet. This version is to coincide with the official worldwide launch of Visual Studio 2008, DotNetNuke Corporation has done a great job in making such a great release of DotNetNuke 4.8.2. This exciting new releaseoffers native support for Visual Studio 2008, Windows Server 2008, and IIS 7.0.

So far we have experienced no issues in our new installs or upgrades what so ever. We strongly suggest you upgrade to this version if you can. If you are using a very early release, we find that the best method of moving forward is to create a fresh 4.8.2 and slowly port your content across. Please ask us for a quote to make this happen for you with our content team. We are indeed doing this more and more for clients.

Second Life is an enhanced experience, and the experience way ahead of showing something using the 2 Dimensional Flash or the new SilverLight technologies. Second Life will give you an experience far more all encompassing; the 2D web can never give you. We are confident that this is the future and that it will spearhead the natural evolution of web. We are not saying it will replace Web 2.0 but it would most certainly transform it.

SalarO's Second Life Site (sl.salaro.com) is going well with slowly number of hits going higher. However, we have been slow to leverage some of the new modules we are building for this portal. We hope to show you by the next Newsletter. DotNetNuke Island in Second Life has been running now for over 3 months. We have now almost completed the first commercial project in this area with the PROPERTIES.co.uk section of the Hitched Island. Please visit the adjacent island in DotNetNuke and see the fantastic showroom for property related companies showing their offerings.

The DotNetNuke SL Orientation area opening is delayed to next months. Users already use this section to get introduced to Second Life. Specially DNN community members use this area, if they want to quickly get an understanding of the tools in SL and be able to go around in Second Life. Orientation area allows new members a fast track method of entering to our virtual world for the first time. Please see this link for a quick guide to getting started, using the SL browser and to registering with us within the familiar DotNetnuke Technology. For now please register here to download the free software and to register an avatar name to enter the world.

If you are already in Second Life, then to find us, do search for SalarO or DotNetNuke when you are in Second Life. The Search for places will resolve it and teleport to the island and see what you find. Please also see the next door island we have just finished for European Property Market.

Recently we have had a client with a number of Joomla 1 Portal that he needed to move to DNN. This project helped us experience for the first time the LAMP market that is improving in parallel with DNN.

Mambo the original CMS application that was later dropped and changed to Joomla since it was not safe enough and many sites were hacked on regular basis due to vulnerabilities associate with Mambo/PHP4. Joomla 1 is proved much better. However an overly relaxed server Manager/Administrator inevitably exposes the portal to hackers. Dubious extensions/modules from unchecked developers also can result further weaknesses that gets exploited by hackers.

Nevertheless, Joomla 1.5 running on PHP 5.x, MySQL 5.x and Apache 2.2 is proving to be very stable indeed. This is why SalarO has finally decided to also offer services for this platform. PHP 6.x will bring much higher level of security to this platform and therefore, this is something that SalarO can no longer afford to ignore. SalarO has now setup a server running LAMP and Joomla 1.5.1 and is ready to both develop as well as host customer sites on this platform and show the ways that organizations could run both side by side and use their advantages for a better web presence.

We naturally feel that if one is starting a fresh portal, then it is much better to run on DNN. But if one has existing investments in LAMP then it may be good to use Joomla for standard CMS web serving and use DNN for complex Application that requires high security. There are some aspect of Joomla that are much better than DNN. and some aspect of DNN that is way ahead of Joomla, so this is not an easy choice for users.

SalarO's dedicated Joomla team to help customers on Joomla platform to move to DNN as well as help companies that have existing Joomla sites to unify the look and feel of their site with DotNetNuke sites in parallel. We are very excited with these projects and to show the potentials for collaborations between the two platforms, we are porting number of Joomla Templates to DNN as well as porting number of DNN packaged skins to Joomla to show the feasibility of this concept. We also plan to produce modules that can bridge and port data across the platforms.

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SalarO is working with DotNetNuke Training to provide some of the training material available in Second Life. So Please visit us there and view some of the training videos and chat with other visitors in the island.

Since the last newsletter we have two great new software under development. First is a Wedding List Module for DNN where is probably more applicable to UK couple planning a wedding. We have developed a module that allows you to put your wish list for presents you like to receive from friends and family attending the wedding. each user that would like to purchase it for you will sign in and make it unavailable for others to see. therefore no chance of getting the same present twice.

The second one is an Enhanced Survey which is finished and should be available for sale next months.

The new store pack of goodies are almost ready for release, see SalarO STORE as well as PinkandBlueGifts.com store that is now finished and open for business. At the moment for a limited period we are setting up this store for you for a fixed price. Please email or click here to send us your requirements for a store and SalarO team can set it up for you at a fixed cost.

We are also working on porting some of the best of the Joomla modules to DNN. There are many of them that at the movement have no equivalent in DNN world.

Second Life Building and Scripting