I've had this post half-written for a while, but I saw someone asking the question on the DNN forums today, so I thought I should finish it and post it for everyone to read. 

Note : Where I write from, 'Favorite' is spelled with a 'u', so that's the standard I'll stick to in this post.

Since about DotNetNuke 4.8 or so (correct me where I'm wrong) DNN outputs a Favourite icon for your specified portal.  If there's no FavIcon, it will generate the standard DNN cog/wheel icon thing in it's place.  Thus you have many websites on the internet with the DNN icon instead of their own.

Updating this for your site is dead simple, and will take under 5 minutes.  Here's what you need to do:

1) Locate your Icon, and get a standard JPEG, GIF or PNG file. Sounds simple, but it's not always.  Ideally you should come up with some sort of image that is square in shape.  I use the little stylised 'i' from the iFinity logo for my site : you could do something similar with yours.  

You should end up...

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A couple of weeks ago I posted some advice on the DotNetNuke forum regarding the use of the 'NavigateURL' call.  Through my work on Friendly Url Providers I've become a bit of a walking reference for this particular corner of the DNN framework.  So I posted a short description on all the different overloads for the NavigateUrl call.

In it, I posted the cheerful snippet:

"[Same as the other NavigateUrl overloads] but allows you to pass in your own portalSettings instance.  This allows you to define different portal options, so you can either change the current language, change the portal alias, or even generate urls for a different portal altogether.  All overloads without 'portalSettings' produce Urls for the current portal, with all the current settings like the current language, current portal alias and more.  You would also supply the 'portalSettings' value...

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The ease at which you can post to a blog with Windows Live Writer (WLW) would have seemed like science fiction a couple of years ago, yet here I am doing it right now.   Except that, in years gone by, you could easily edit Html in a WYSIWYG editor and quickly FTP Up the results.  The more things change, the more they stay the same.

I thought I'd post a quick entry in case people are running Blog 3.5, Url Master and would like to use WLW.  I found that in configuring the Post Url for WLW, I had a few problems to sort out.

If you haven't yet set up your WLW to post to your blog, it's really easy.  Here's the steps:

1) Start WLW, and progress through the first couple of steps, indicating you already have a blog, and that it's with 'Another Blog Service'.

2) Enter your blog Url and DNN username and password that you blog under

3) Select 'MetaWeblog API' as the type of weblog

4) Enter your Blog Posting Url : this is pretty easy to get.  Its http://www.yourdomain.com/DesktopModules/Blog/blogpost.ashx?tabid=nn...

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I've been waiting eagerly for the new Blog module to be released.  Quite a while back, I posted on here how the Blog module developers could make people happy by putting the module title into the Url using the 'page name' functionality of the Friendly Url API.   One of my readers thought it was a good idea and posted it on Gemini, now the results are in.  Here's my experience with the upgrade.