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Next Meeting: June 18 6:30 PM - (Eastern)

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Southern Fried DNN User Group Meeting

Even though the name is Southern, our DNN User Group is for everyone invested in DNN! Developers, Administrators, Users and absolutely everyone using DNN is invited to attend online! Meetings are the third Thursday each month and are streamed online with replay on posted on YouTube. Register now for MeetUp to get meeting details and announcements.

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Southern Fried DNN Blog

Southern Fried DNN User Group (Formerly Queen City DotNetNuke User Group QCDUG) blog covers DNN topics addressed by the usergroup at meetings, conventions and for the DNN community for North Carolina, South Carolina and the DNN community at large!
 

Dec 2022 SoFri: Gameshow Night - DNN Pyramid

SoFried's DNN-themed gameshow enthusiast Ryan Moore challenges you to join us and play DNN Pyramid the game where two teams will compete in lightning word match rounds. These game meetings are always fun. Come party with us and test your DNN knowledge!
 

Nov 2022 SoFri: Schfifty-Five - Five 5-Minute Gems from the Wolf X Machina Den

In a rapid-fire session, Aaron Lopez will share with you a small collection of his favourite (that's Canadian for "favorite") solutions that you can implement in your own DNN websites in about 5 minutes each. Want better typography? How about unique and friendly anchors on the page? These impactful but low-effort solutions will help you improve your DNN User Interfaces
 

Oct 2022 SoFri: DNN Platform 9.11.0 Release & Walkthrough

A DNN platform updates meeting that you shouldn't miss! We talk about the DNN Platform 9.11.0 release, along with a walkthrough of all the major highlights. David Poindexter from nVisionative discusses clean installs and all the various upgrade scenarios. It is a truly epic release, so this review be helpful for so many people!
 

June 2022 SoFri: DNN Security Headers - From an "F" to an "A" Grade!

SoFri's Ryan Moore leads a working session to explain and demonstrate several security header settings which can be made to the DNN web.config, which helps with the overall site security and presentation footprint. He'll explain items, plus shares code and testing tools involved.
 

July 2022 SoFri: Laura Pierson (Designing for Accessibility)

Designing for Accessibility - Web accessibility shouldn’t be an afterthought. It should be considered throughout the entire design and development process. Laura Pierson, of 10 Pound Gorilla, will cover best practices and helpful tools for designing ADA-compliant websites that are usable by everyone.
 

May 2022 SoFri: DNN & Ionic - How I built a Food Delivery SaaS for 50 Restaurants

In this session, Benny Su shows SoFri how easy it is to get started with DNN and Ionic together so you can build your own hybrid apps. Using his experience building FOODEX, he will take you through a quick installation, share how he overcame obstacles, and show you some real working code.
 

April 22 SoFri: Chris Hammond - Module Packaging Customization

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Lots of people use Chris Hammond's templates, but the tutorials around them are all pretty basic and intended to get you started. In this presentation, Chris will provide some more advanced customization and packaging options that you can do within extensions created by his templates.
 

Feb 22 SoFri - DNN Summit 2022 Recap + Community Project Highlights

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This month, we'll be recapping DNN Summit 2022 and then we'll take some time to highlight a few exciting community projects. Trust us, they are worth knowing about and getting involved with!
 

March 2022 SoFri: Members Directory & View Profile Modules with Heilene Martin

The Members Directory and View Profiles modules are included in DNN by default. These modules display user information lists and profile details. In this presentation, Heilene will give an overview of how they have used these modules in their organization, how to customize the layout using Bootstrap, and how to use values from the User Profiles fields.
 

Jan 2022 SoFri Double Header - Sebastian Leupold (Internationalization) & David Poindexter (Web Components)

This meeting of SoFri is a DOUBLE HEADER with presentations by both David Poindexter and Sebasitan Leupold! Providing a website for an international audience can be quite challenging. Sebastian will provide an overview of common aspects to take care of and strategies for addressing them using all the features of DNN Platform. We all keep hearing about web components... David shows them in action in DNN!
 
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