Hello,

i am new to the whole build and run a website experience. a friend thought dnn was a pretty good place to start, i think he was right. my friend helped me get the site up and gave me a basic tutorial everything else i have learned from trial and error and now feel pretty comfortable with my dnn site. i would now like to try to take next step with the site and need a little more advanced help, please.

first i am a firefighter/emt and my site is a fire and ems news and info site called thefederalq.com. right now i have 2 questions 1. what is the media module supposed to do and any suggestions on how i might apply it to my site?

2. you ever been to a site and there is usually an image of something....say a fire and to the side or below the image there is a brief description and then it will say "read full story" or "read more" and you  click on that and another window opens and of course there is the story. i am using dnn 4 and don't know if i just don't have that capability and need a different module or i do have the capability and just haven't figured out how to do it.

can someone please help or point me in right direction?

p.s. also any help with customizing a logo would also be greatly appreciated!

 

thanks a lot

Patrick

The Media module can be used to play flash, videos or simply display an image.  However, please note that I have found several issues with it.  I never was able to get it to play flash.  I also recently discovered that if you use it to display an image in your right pane that the image will be cut off (use Text/Html module to display image in this case).

The Announcements module can do what you outline in #2 and you can also tweak its template via the settings.  You could also achieve the same thing by using a Text/HTML module and creating the links yourself by hand.

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Shawn Duggan MCPD
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thanks for your help shawn!!! Happy Thanksgiving!!!!