Not entirely exciting, but I’ve updated my personal Dotnetnuke site with a newly simplified skin. Thanks to Kerko.com for their free “Blue” skin – it’s simple, easy, and looks nice.

I had tried to get my own “custom” skin going, but I just ran into trouble getting the CoolBar menu styles to look how I wanted them to. The basic site layout is pretty easy, but the styles we’re killing me. Maybe I just need a better css editor (suggestions welcome!). Anyhow, at some point, I’m going to have to get serious about DNN skinning, but for now, I’ll live with this skin.

While talking about the site… admittedly there is not much there yet, but I have put up some presentations that I’ve given at ESRI conferences over the years. There are just 4 there now, and I’ll put the other 8 or so up as I’ve got time.

Ran into an REALLY confounding problem today – my localhost DNN sites stopped rendering module content. No errors, just no modules.

After digging around in Default.aspx, I found my way into the injectModule method of Skin.vb. After tracing around in here for a while, I found that the visibility of the module was being controlled by a cookie…

Somehow the cookie for http://Localhost/dnn had been set so that it had _Tab_Admin_Content set to false. The net effect is that no modules would be rendered.

I’m not sure how this cookie got set, but it was a dog to track down.    

Spent some time wheedling with Themes for dasBlog. About all this did for me was make me realize that I need “CSS for Idiots”. So, for now, I’ll leave it like this – just a very simple re-coloring of the default dasBlog theme.

Just found out about dasBlog yesterday, and have managed to get it up and running here in just a few minutes. I’m going to transfer the stuff I’ve posted up at MSN Spaces (a pretty cool service for the price!), and this will be the main location for my ramblings on life as a GIS software consultant. I hope to actually post some usefull stuff, but who knows. Anyhow, this is just a quick starting post.