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Finding the right software firm to help you build and maintain your systems can be quite the challenge. Typcially, it is who you know. "I know a guy who does development. Let me ask him if he can help/let me ask him who he'd recommend." But, what is the right method for evaluating whether your guy's recommendation is the right fit for your company?

As software developers, it is critically important to continually update the products our customers are using. Below are the latest release notes for Engage AMS, Engage Sports, and Faith Enroll.

On Sept 19th, Engage Digital Strategist, Kristen Palm, passed the GA4 Certification exam in one try with a high-flying 86%.

Engage CTO, Brian Dukes, is heading to the DNN Connect conference in Switzerland to join the panel of guest speakers.

Members of the Engage team are heading down South to attend GO! The Gulf Coast Faith Formation Conference on Jan 13-14th 2023 to learn more about other Faith-based products and to educate others on Faith Enroll.

Since acquiring SMB Creative Group in Jan 2020, the team has been super busy and has built new partnerships - Catholic Faith Technologies and Aware3. Catholic Faith Technologies: A division of Nelnet, Catholic Faith Technologies (CFT) offers solutions for online learning, faith formation, employee/volunteer onboarding and more. SMB, now under Engage, already had many religious clients.

Within your DNN site, each module has a menu for MODULE SETTINGS.  You access the module settings by going into edit mode and then on the module, hover over the gear wheel of the module and click on settings. Learn more about the different settings and what you do with them.

In order to edit existing content, you need to have editing access to the site.  That will either be an Adminstrator role or a specific content editor type role.  If you need editing access, you will have to reach out to your site's manager. Step 1 - Login Step 2 - Navigate to the page you want to edit, then click on the edit pencil icon in the lower left corner

DNN has the ability to assign roles to users, to create business-specific roles, and show/hide content based on those roles.  The three basic roles are Administrators, Registered Users, and Subscribers.  Administrators are your web experts who need access to the back end of things.  There is also Host/SuperUser access, which should be reserved for the website builder and expert developers.

We are going to cover Page Settings, Page Appearance and Page Permissions within DNN platform. The Licensed version, Evoq, has slightly different options, but the basics are the same. To access a page's settings, you can hover over the CONTENT icon and then click on Pages.

How do WCAG and ADA work together? And, do websites have to be ADA compliant? WCAG is the set of guidelines that websites need to follow in order to be ADA compliant. Following WCAG improves the user experience and avoids the possibility of a lawsuit. Simply put, websites need to be ADA compliant because it’s the law.

How do you add new content to a page?  DNN has two methods depending on if you are creating something from scratch or if you have a pattern that you want to mimic.   From scratch - you would choose the "ADD NEW MODULE" option Mimic a pattern - pick "ADD EXISTING MODULE" Here are the steps to do both.