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With the Bulk Emailer application we have used font icons to improve response and scalability with different devices. So far we have been happy with how they work using some boot strap code that is used for our user interface.
What we have noticed, and it’s no big surprise… Internet Explorer 9 and IE 10 will not display font icons correct.
What you should see is this:
But ends up rendering like this:
For IIS 6 and later, they do not handle WOFF fonts as icons for Internet Explorer. Most other browsers will support them, however IE like usual will behave like a black sheep.
There appears to be two solutions to this problem.
Add the following MIME type to the IIS server settings.
Open IIS Manager and navigate to the level you want to manage. For information about opening IIS Manager, see Open IIS Manager (IIS 7). For information about navigating to locations in the UI, see Navigation in IIS Manager (IIS 7).
In Features View, double-click MIME Types.
In the Actions pane, click Add.
In the Add MIME Type dialog box, type a file name extension in the File name extension text box. For example, type .xyz.
Type a MIME type in the MIME type text box. For example, type application/octet-stream.
Click OK.
A lot of people don’t have access to configure IIS in DotNetNuke, so you can add the following to the web.config.
Under the yellow below add the green lines
<system.webServer> <staticContent> <mimeMap fileExtension=”.woff” mimeType=”application/x-font-woff” /> </staticContent> </system.webServer>
This should get you out of trouble.
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I wanted to place this review on the DNN store but there is no review button in my download page for your product. It may be because it is an old order or product version. Please would you turn it on so I can post it and feel free to post it with my name on your site.
Regards
Richard Sletcher
If you have not yet used the InteractiveWebs email module you don’t know what you are missing. It is spectacular. The system is vast and would require a manual to list all the super cool features but let me give you some of my highlights.
Imagine you have a list of restaurant clients containing FirstName, LastName, BirthDay, FoodPreference. You could send out an email like this…
Dear [MyToken:FirstName]
Your birthday is coming up in [MyToken:DaysToBirthday] and we would like to help you celebrate by offering you a 20% on [MyToken:MealPreference].
Richard
… Get the idea?
The best part is that you can automate the entire process. You simply build a list of all people having a birthday in 5 days time and then tell the email to run every day. Each day the system builds a list of people with upcoming birthdays and sends an email or SMS all driven from your internal data.
OK… ENOUGH!
This is a killer module and I recommend that you take the time to try it out.
Richard – one seriously happy InteractiveWebs customer!
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The Bulk Email module for DotNetNuke has a feature known as Bounce Email Monitoring, and it is probably a good idea to understand what it does and how it does it so we can explain how best to configure it.
When an email message is generated using the DotNetNuke Bulk Email Module, a list of all the email addresses that you have selected from multiple sources is generated into a database.
The lists that you select can include.
Once the list is complied, email addresses are removed.
Then the email messages are sent out and ticked off as being sent.
You can see that bounced email addresses will only be removed if they are on the bounced email list, and have bounced to a count matched the settings configured.
Periodically, the module will use the setting for the POP 3 account to look for email messages that it can add as a bounce. To do this, it will download all messages in the mailbox and look using some complex searching tools for email messages that appear to have bounced back from a failed send attempt.
Unfortunately email servers report bounce messages in different ways, so the code that reads the email messages and looks for bounce backs is long and complex. For this reason, the process of finding bounce messages should be kept to a minimum to reduce the load on the server.
The best way to reduce load is to minimise the number of mail messages that the process needs to check.
The best way to do this is three fold.
The process of downloading thousands of email messages, checking them all and processing them all can take hours. It will put a huge load on both the web server and your email server. It will increase your data transfer costs both on your web and email server.
So follow the suggestions and the result should be clean and fast.
Want to know more about email messaging in DotNetNuke.
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Today we have added support to the DotNetNuke Bulk Emailer module for WebFarms.
We have identified a feature of Bulk Emailer for DotNetNuke that has caused some issues with the running of the module on a WebFarm.
There is an automatic enable feature that checks when you start a bulk email message that the scheduler for the module in the Host / Scheduler is enabled. If it is not enabled, the module will enable it.
With WebFarms there are two processes that run at the same time.
This will cause duplication of sending email messages.
The solution is easy… just disable one of the schedule processes. However this will be automatically re-enabled by the module.
To solve this we have added an option to the Bulk Emailer Settings. This option enables you to tick that you are using a WebFarm, stopping the automatic enabling of iWebs BulkEmailer EmailSchedule process.
After you enable WebFarm mode, you will need to go into the Host Scheduler processes and disable all but one of the multiple processes for the iWebs BulkEmailer EmailSchedule.
The result will be that only one of the schedulers run and only one email message will be sent.
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If you are using the Advanced Email Module for DotNeTNuke, called bulk emailer, and you find that the links you place in your emails are not working when they arrive as an email. Then the fix is simple.
In the Bulk Emailer Settings Menu
Click on the option to Update Link
This will force the module to operate on the URL that you are currently working with on the site. It is necessary when you install the module in a dev URL and then try to operate through another URL such as a final domain name url.
The help for the item reads:
If you change the domain name that this module is operating on, then you should click ‘Update Links’ to reset the base URL for Email Tracking, Unsubscription and View Online.
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– We have found and improved some of the Decode Weather code that struggled with certain specific locations that publish non standard METAR and TAF data.
– New pattern recognition code that better handles non standard WX information for decode.
– Added Variable Winds Decode.
– Variable Visibility Decode.
– Recent SX WX Decode
– Sea Status in WX Decode
As it turns out, the decoding of weather world wide is rather complex. It is surprising just how many countries have their own format and data sets. Russia with Runway snow and braking information, temperate in different units, QNH, auto machine forecasts to name a few. We hop that any inaccuracies are reported via the feedback within the app, and screen shots.
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– Improved the retrieval of Weather TAF and TTF in multi thread and multi station simultaneous download.
– This release includes decode information for TTF METAR and TAF data on a worldwide scale.
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Should I load windows 8? This is the question that many people are going to be asking themselves over the next year or two. So I though I would throw my opinion into the mix for those who value it.
It gets really easy as I get older and the Blamer years draw to a close, to actively dislike most of the innovations coming from Microsoft. You can only feel sorry for them really as peoples user experience with other technologies makes consumers realise what a mediocre user experience the Windows years have been. Mean time, Microsoft have woken up to several facts that clearly have influenced the Windows 8 product. 1. People like the new technologies like iPads, iPhones and Android devices. 2. People like the new experience they have with company relationships with Apple, Google, Amazon, where they can single click and purchase information, apps and media super easily. 3. The alternatives to Windows are a LOT better then they used to be. 4. Microsoft has been dragging the chain with User Experience it’s entire life! So knowing and understanding this, it becomes clearer as to what Windows 8 is trying to be. Simply, they are trying to close the gaps that Windows has to the multitude of great User Experiences to be found on other devices and operating systems.
The answer is essentially yes. Microsoft have come a huge way in delivering what is in effect a lobotomised Windows user experience. It’s probably relevant that we introduce an understanding of what I mean by this. I have some 20 something years experience in the aviation industry, and in that industry I have experienced moving from some of the oldest (steam driven) equipment to the newest and most advanced and computerised aircraft in the air today. Moving from flying the Classic 747 to the Airbus A380. The old office (Boeing 747 Classic) In the new office (Airbus A380 at Night over India) The distinction here is apparent and startling, but the differences as an aviator are less apparent. I’ll give you one User Experience difference that may help to draw the highlight between these two technologies. Stall Speed. The Stall Speed, without getting into too much technical details is the speed of an aircraft below which sustained lift is no longer generated sufficiently enough by the wings that the aircraft can continue to fly. (Not technically correct but you get the idea). Flying too slow = Bad. This is due to a whole bunch of complex interacting aerodynamics like, Angel of Attach, G force, Angle of Bank, Weight, Air Density, centre of gravity, Flap / Slat configuration… just to name a few. As a pilot of a 747, you are well aware of your stall speed as a figure bug and mark on your speed dial. As a pilot of an A380, you look at what the computer tells you is the slowest speed that it will let you fly the aircraft at. You know from your past experience that it has a direct relationship to stall speed, but there are literally too many variables taken into account that you could actually know what the figure is going to be. But you don’t need too, the computer tells you, and like some “Lobotomised” version of your former self, you believe the computer.
Makers of great operating systems no longer want you to understand file systems, gigabytes, hard disks, etc. They want you to behave as a lobotomised users and think in terms of:
Just simple, dumb end user experience stuff, and frankly this is a long login overdue approach. “Why should my mum have to know what hard disk to save something too.” Windows 8 is the first big step in this direction from Microsoft, and it really is intending a big change from the end users who engage it. It tries really hard to get you to engage it in simple ways to do simple bug fun things. The more common things that most users do.
If you are a power user, who smashes out a bunch of work from an existing multiple monitor, multiple program high speed connected computer. Definitely Not. If you are a system admin, or programmer, or IT Professional. – Definitely Not If you rely on mission critical work that has been working well for you to date – Definitely Not If you enjoy steeling programs, games, loading programs, installing and tinkering (script kiddy) – Definitely Not
Anyone listed above who buys a new surface or purposed laptop or tablet, and… Everyone Else Any End Users who can sit back from the past, say I am ready for a new experience, and let Windows 8 run as it was intended. With the “hood down”. Just let yourself be a user, not an admin. Have a quick Lobotomy! I will be running Windows 8 on purpose devices. Probably a Surface and or other tablets. I will also have a virtual machine of it on my Mac to play with when the need arises to test and play. I fully expect to enjoy the experience when on the purposed devices, and I am dead certain that I will never use a Windows 8 environment as a Power User Machine, I also have no intention of being a Windows 8 expert, of ever running it as a network administrator, or being the IT “go to” guy” for friends and colleagues. I love being a Lobotomised User with OSX. I just flip the lid on my Mac Air, and smash away at apps and light weight work. A surface windows 8 environment would be interchangeable here.
Yes and No. Yes Microsoft have dealt a hand that will keep them relevant and in business until the end of the Balmer years. No it was not a great hand. It’s 5 years too late, and playing catch up to a far superior user experience over at Apple, plus they have kind of boobed up the mashing of light weight devices and desktops. But it was they only hand they had to play with so it is here to stay. Hopefully it will be the beginning of a new approach to Microsoft’s world. One where stuff just works like it should, and without any technical “object not set to an instance of an object”. Lets hope for the end of The Blamer Years and an opportunity for someone with clear vision to have a crack with their massive resources.
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Cantaport Shading System
Recently our client Totally Outdoors added a new cantaport shading system to their product list.
This Melbourne based builder now provides some commercial shading solutions that are excellent for both domestic and commercial designs.
Check out their website here: http://www.totallyoutdoors.com.au/products/cantaport-shading-system/
Cantaport shading system design benefits provides an exciting range of options particular for School, Sporting clubs and Local Councils for uses such as Open Shelters for bikes, Bus, play ground and sports grounds. Totally Outdoors professional structure of Architectural designs, 20 years of providing installed outcomes combine to deliver known outcomes across a range of project types.
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Tall Tails Mobile Dog Grooming Service Melbourne has a new website. This new site is a free website run using InteractiveWebs domain name hosting services and email services, but allows the owner to run the website management using the free content management system.
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On this great website for the history of the internet, there are some interesting internet facts to be found.
This includes a comprehensive listing of the Time Line for the History of the Internet.
Check it out.
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Preview some upcoming features in Q2 "R8" such as mobility, BI and Analytics enhancements from Reuben Krippner a MSFT Technical Product Management Lead in this video.
One of the most talked about improvements in CRM Anywhere is the introduction of a new mobility component dubbed Microsoft Dynamics CRM Mobile.
Cross-Browser Support
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Mobile isn’t the only reason Microsoft is calling the coming update CRM Anywhere. Users of CRM Online 2011 will now be able to access the application using the following browser versions (see below).
To understand why this is so important for CRM Online 2011, let’s turn to a few third-party statistics on browser usage around the world. The following table compiles several different studies for easy comparison.
You should notice that while Internet Explorer is definitely in the lead, other browsers remain popular. Since users of Firefox, Chrome, and Safari cannot use CRM Online 2011 now, CRM Anywhere will literally double the potential user base of CRM Online 2011.
Are you beginning to understand why Microsoft named its latest update CRM Anywhere? CRM Online 2011, already a versatile application, is being fully extended to mobile devices and all major browsers! When you include the social-media enhancements, you start to see why we think CRM Anywhere is so important.
When CRM Anywhere is released, you will be able to download it either through Windows Update, or at the Microsoft Download Center. Stay tuned here and we’ll provide you with all of the information you need to update when the time comes.
It sounds like this release will still only expose Dynamics CRM records on the activity feeds “wall”, but that the Q4 2012 Service Update will extend this to external communities.
If you’re attending Convergence you’ll probably want to attend some of the sessions on this important topic.
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Today we are please to release the downloadable backup program for Windows. Further details to follow soon.
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We are please to announce the launch of one of Melbourne’s premier builders websites. The site for TotallyOutdoors.com.au focuses on:
Verandahs | Pergolas | Patios | Alfresco | Designs Kits Melbourne Builders
As a supplier of:
Centenary Pergolas & Carports
Eclipse – Louver Roofs
Solarspan Roofing
Totally Outdoors are one of Australia’s premier supplier and builder of outdoor roofing needs.
We are please to be providing services to them, and welcome them on board the InteractiveWebs team.
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Today we announced that our DotNetNuke Module for syncing to outlook was updated to DNN 6. Check out the details here.
http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Resources/Forums/forumid/112/threadid/451288/scope/posts.aspx
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Today we launched a make over of the Owen Hodge Financial Planning website.
At Owen Hodge Financial Planning we offer advice and create solutions that fit your individual needs. Importantly, our clients have trusted us to deliver worthwhile advice for over 60 years.
We would welcome the opportunity to learn about your financial needs and to offer worthwhile advice that you can benefit from, now and over the long term.
Check out the new website at: http://www.ohfp.com.au/default.htm
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Today we have launched a new Sydney Photography Website for John Armytage Photography.
One of Sydney’s newest professional photography specialists, John has launched this website to support the sale of some of the tremendous photos he takes.
Check out all the details at: http://www.johnarmytagephotography.com
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We have updated our popular Mushroom Lite module that is used to integrate WordPress blogs module into DotNetNuke.
The module is now ready for use on DotNetNuke 6x versions, and can be seen here:
http://www.interactivewebs.com/mushroom-lite/Demo/MushroomLiteDemo.aspx
pulling feeds directly from our blog here: http://www.interactivewebs.com/blog/
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