DotNest blog
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New content fields, social meta tags and a Bootstrap theme
We constantly strive to make DotNest even better for you. So if you give us some feedback, we'll gladly listen. This time we listened to three enthusiastic DotNest users and thus added three new extensions to the DotNest selection!
- Lombiq Fields module: adds some useful content fields, including Media Library Upload Field so Media items can be uploaded attached to content items and the Money Field to store money amounts. You can also see the module in action in the Orchard Communtiy Meeting's podcast.
- Social Meta Tags module: adds meta tags for various social networks (Open Graph Tags for Facebook/Google/Pinterest/LinkedIn and Twitter Card Tags) and Google Authorship tags.
- PJS.Bootstrap theme: a great theme by Philip Senechal.
Create your DotNest site for free and try out these new features!
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A lot of new features for your DotNest sites!
We just updated all of your DotNest sites with some cool new features! These give you some more tools to customize your sites. Let's see what's in the box:
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DotNest sites now run on Orchard 1.9
The Orchard 1.9 release brought a lot of improvements a few weeks ago: apart from tons of bugfixes and smaller enhancements it also contains three new modules, Audit Trail, Layouts and Dynamic Forms (just to name what you as a DotNest user will mostly see). 1.9 is a great release, a large milestone that makes Orchard a mature CMS. And now you have it on DotNest!
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Hosted Orchard sites a click away: now you can create DotNest sites from within Microsoft Azure!
It wasn't exactly easy to do, but now DotNest is even more integrated into Microsoft Azure: you can created DotNest Orchard sites as an Azure App Service, from the Microsoft Azure Marketplace!
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DotNest has a new look!
As you can see we swapped out the old clunky look of DotNest with a fresh new one! Everything was re-hauled. Oh, and of course it is, just as the old one, responsive. But in a better way!
We hope this new DotNest is a lot more pleasant for your eyes!
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Case study: creating a website on DotNest with heavily customized content
Brace yourselves, this is going to be a long one: in this blogpost we're going to demonstrate the process of customizing the content structure of an actual website running on DotNest, currently having ~30 regular users. Seriously, grab some popcorn, you'll need it. Wall of text incoming.
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New modules for DotNest sites
We have recently updated DotNest with a few general performance improvements and two new modules (that actually work even better together) adding cool features to your DotNest sites: Forum and Watcher!
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Collect usage data for your DotNest sites with Azure Application Insights!
Ever wanted to see colourful interactive charts about your DotNest sites' usage that you can pan around and impress your coworkers, clients with? Now it's here, and it's not just cool but also very useful: Azure Application Insights.
With Azure Application Insights you can measure your sites' performance, collect all kinds of usage data and even see client-side errors. So no more JavaScript errors that go undetected!
What's more, using Azure Application Insights is free and also all DotNest sites just got it for free too! Check out how to use it.
The Application Insights integration on DotNest uses our Application Insights Orchard module, which you can install to any custom Orchard app too.
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Pay yearly for custom domain usage, be our guest for one month!
Until now if you wanted to use your own domain names with your DotNest sites you had to go with monthly payments. Listening to our beloved customers we implemented yearly payments, giving you a much more convenient option! And not just that: if you pay yearly you'll get one month of custom domain usage for FREE!
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All DotNest sites can now be accessed conveniently through HTTPS, without a custom port
You could access your DotNest sites securely through HTTPS from day 1; however, this required you to use a custom port. E.g. when accessing your site "mysite.dotnest.com" securely you would have used the URL "https://mysite.dotnest.com:8443" with that ugly "8443" at the end. But not any more!
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