Latest scientific studies add further evidence that human activity has pushed carbon levels in the atmosphere in recent decades to their highest levels in 800,000 years and that associated global warming has produced an array of changes for the Earth and its life. 

New, deeper ice cores drilled in the Antarctic have produced data on carbon levels in the atmosphere going back further than ever before – now 800,000 years. They show that the concentrations of the major greenhouse gases in the air trapped in the ice through all the layers laid down over that time period has never been at levels as high as they are today. Current concentrations of CO2 are 28 per cent higher and for methane are 124 per cent higher than their next highest peaks over those aeons, researchers from the University of Berne, Switzerland say.

To encourage awareness here at SalarO we have decided to offer a 20% discount on all future custom skins for organizations that are updating their site with environmentally friendly imagery or their business is actually actively promoting reductions in Carbon Emissions. Please see further reading in Al Gore's great site on the subject.

Here at SalarO, we are strong advocates of global warming awareness. We currently are developing a large Carbon Exchange portal that should complete by end of this year. We have also a 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 the hot summer months, the 20% discount also applies. We further pledge to give 2 free skins per custom skin project, so you can apply them to any other sites you may have. Please note that this offer does not apply if you already have developer discounts.

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

This months SalarO team has successfully produced an advanced skinpack that changes the colours of the skinpack like a chameleo. Please have a look by clicking here, This further helps our progress towards XHTML compliancy with our new packaged skins and any new custom skin we produce. Any new releases of skins are running on 4.82 and we are testing them for 5.0 beta. 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.

Fantastic new DNN 5 is being tested now and so far only minor issues have been reported. we are currently testing the latest DNN 5.0 BETA..

See our new Packaged skin packs. We are now using the NEW DNN MENU rather than SolpartMenu which is 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.

This year, on October 6 and 7, the Software Development Network hosts the seventeenth (!) SDN Conference! When you attend the conference you can be sure that the track record of SDN guarantees a well organized conference.

Don’t miss IT! The leading developer conference in your language! If you are using either C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, DotNetNuke or Delphi, you cannot miss this event. Come to the two day SDN Conference. World class gurus are lined up to speak just for you. Share your knowledge and experience with hundreds of developers. Find out about where languages and tools are going. Feel the vibe and return home with renewed inspiration. On top of all this, you will receive a selection of tools and gadgets.

Co-located at SDN Conference the DotNetNuke OpenForce '08 Europe Conference will be held. Attendees of the SDN Conference 2008 have free access to all OpenForce sessions.
Click here for the DotNetNuke OpenForce website.

See us here for an informal chat in between the sessions. for those of you that will not be there in Conference, see videos and perhaps in second life.

We are very excited with the prospect of DNN 5.0 which if current testing goes well could be released within a months. This version will have a lot of new features, DotNetNuke Corporation has done a great job in making such a great release. This exciting new release offers 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 as soon as it arrives. 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.

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

Joomla 1.5 running on PHP 5.x, MySQL 5.x and Apache 2.2 is proving to be very stable indeed. The other popular platform famous for its simplicity is WordPress. 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 1.5.3 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. However, 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 or wordpress 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.

Quickly learn how to get the most out of Dotnetnuke at DotNetNuke Training. The most challenging thing about DNN to me has been the time it takes for a new user or administrator to figure out how to use this awesome CMS system. Now you no longer have to spend all your time reading documentation to figure out what you need to do. By watching our quality training videos you can have your DNN web site looking and working the way you want in no time at all.

DotNetNuke Training provides you with:-

• Free and subscription based content to help you learn DNN Fast!
• Offering a growing online video library, articles, and forums to help you get the most out of DNN.
• Showing you different ways to make money from your DNN website.
• DotNetNuke Training exist to help support you by providing the information necessary to get the most out of DNN.

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 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. Now we see that the big names in IT forecasting are also jumping on the bandwagon:-

The Internet is on the cusp of its next major evolution: Web3D. Within five to seven years, Web3D will deliver an interactive, impressive experience much richer than the static, text-oriented or even interactive graphical interfaces of today’s Web. In the new world of work that Web3D will enable, people will be represented visually by avatars that can move in space, communicate with others, and interact with objects and information — making the digital world seem more like the real world. Yet Web3D won’t leave the old world behind; it will integrate with the Web technologies we use today as well as existing and not yet invented business applications. Workers will use Web3D to teach and learn, innovate collaboratively, communicate and network, interact with and present information, and manage real-world systems.

Erica Driver - FORRESTER

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. Please see below some of the predictions that Forrester makes for Future of Web.

BUSTING OUT OF TODAY’S “WALLED GARDENS”

• Multiple vendors will provide Web3D servers, which can live anywhere.
• People will be able to traverse Web3D — an expansion of browsing the Web today.
• You’ll be able to create 3-D objects using standard tools and then import them.
• It will be easier to create content than it is today.
• You’ll be able to use the same avatar in multiple virtual environments.
• People will develop rich work environments.

INTERACTIVITY + IMMERSION = ENGAGEMENT

• Research shows that virtual interactions seem similar to physical interactions.
• Learning activities in the virtual world have the same efficacy as the physical world.
• Discover New Ways To Collaborate, Network, And Interact
• Hold meetings in virtual workspaces.
• Meet, talk with, and learn from others at virtual conferences and trade shows.
• Travel together throughout the virtual enterprise — or the virtual universe.
• Service and support customers in highly interactive ways.
• Visit common areas and the workspaces and displays of others to see what they are up to.

View, Analyze, Present, And Interact With Complex Data And Information

• Build or import and share digital 3-D models.
• Represent and communicate information in new ways.
• Turn presentations into tours.
• Visualize data in new ways.

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 5you find. Please also see the next door island we have just finished for European Property Market. 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.

Second Life Building and Scripting