If you are using DotNetNuke and Google Adsense together, you will notice that IE8 would throw a JavaScript error. This is because page already has a f...

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Until now, i have been asked to prove, why DotNetNuke can be used to save hosting fees. Well, i have already discussed it billion times with my visitors and wanted to highlight it again.

You can use DotNetNuke to host multiple domains under single hosting account.
You can use DotNetnuke to save hosting account payments. For example, Godaddy charges you for 6.95 for Deluxe Windows Hosting account right?

Lets say, you have three domains.

1. Domain 1
2. Domain 2
3. Domain 3

In order to host those three domains and install DotNetNuke, you will need hosting accounts for each of the domain that you wanna use.
Well if you multiply 6.95 with 3, it outcomes you for 21 $ almost. What a hassle. Then multiply this with 12. It is almost 250$ right?

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Sometimes things don't go well and upgrade process fails with random messages. In case that happens, we need to fix issues and recover website so it c...

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Sometimes SQL Server collation and your database collation might be different. For example; Turkish hosting providers are using default Regional Settings while installing SQL Server 2005/20008. This is resulting master database collation to be set as Turkish_CI_AS. So far, no problem. You may experience outstanding issues while installing DotNetNuke using Turkish_CI_AS collation.

At the very beginning after facing the collation problem i decided to use Latin1_General_CI_AS as server collation and results were very helpful.

In a test development environment you could easily uninstall and reinstall SQL Server with correct settings. However in a production environment you might have other applications running at same server, because of that you may need to rebuild your master database collation.

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Although Windows Vista became more popular this year, there are still billions of people using Windows XP Professional for their development environment. I'm going to write an article for those folks that want to learn How to Install DotNetNuke to Windows XP Professional.

Note: If you are using Windows XP Home Edition, forget about reading this tutorial, because you will not able to follow instructions since IIS (Internet Information Services) not provided with this edition. Alternatively you can read bunch of articles about how to enable IIS with Windows XP Home Edition. This can be painful but you may think it would worth trying.

Anyway lets get back to main point of my article.

Ensure that you have following:

• Windows XP Professional Edition (Service Pack 3 Upgrade enabled) [get Service Pack 3 Upgrade]
• Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition (Service Pack 1 Upgrade enabled) [get it here] [register here]
• Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 [get it here]
• Windows Installer 4.5 [get it here] (this is need for SQL Server 2008 Express)
• Windows Powershell 1.0 [get it here]
• SQL Server 2008 Express with Advanced Services (requires registration before download) [register here]
• Mozilla Firefox (optional) [get it here]

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