Jan
12
Written by:
Dylan Barber
1/12/2010 1:57 PM
Building DNN for clients sometimes can take finding some custom module on Snowcovered or building one yourself but there are some modules and other objects I really like to have in my DNN portal no matter what it looks like or does.
- Oliver Hines Advanced Control Panel. This replacement for the control panel that admin and host accounts see is slick and optimized for the web. Makes working with the control bar just that much easier. (Download)
- Oliver Hines Optimized Skin Objects. Something that has been long overdue for DNN! By taking out some of those post backs it really does appear to make the site peppier to end users. (Download)
- Oliver Hines Primary Portal Alias. Now this little install is actually a core modification so you might want to think about it before installing but if you are serious about SEO and 301 redirects for your portal this is the modification to use. Especially if you don't want to or cant mess with IIS directly. (Download)
- DNNDoneRight DNN Menu (Guess its now DNN Garden). This is a great menu with a lot of options for the menu including a templated version so you can style it exactly like you want. I particularly like the Mega Menu (Download)
- Oliver Hines Google Analytics Evolved. Okay this is something that I think the DNN core should of done when they added in the Google analytics to the core but since they didn't we are lucky its open source so someone else could. (Download)
These are my 5 favorite things to include on portals. Do they make portal development any easier or help me add content to pages not really, they do solve some of the small issues that take so much time to solve each time a portal is started.
Have more you would like to add?