What is Pete's Pagebuilder?  Pete's Pagebuilder is a web based application designed to help create professional pages without the need of extensive programming knowledge.  By using customizable modules that are easy to use Pete's Pagebuilder gives you full control to the page fulfilling your web page goals. You will hear Pete's Pagebuilder sometimes referred to as DNN or DotNetNuke which is built upon an open source platform.

Why use Pete's Pagebuilder?  Pete's Pagebuilder is a user-friendly interface which makes it simple to use.  With all the modules provided you can create pages in minutes.  On top of it being user-friendly Pete's Pagebuilder is customizable.  Skins, fonts, colors, and containers can all be changed to fit your needs allowing for an overall site appearance unlike any others.  New skins and containers are being added to give the user a wide variety of choices to help customize the site.  On top of all that you don't need to install anything.  Just login into the page and start working!


Is Pete's Pagebuilder secure?  Yes Pete's Pagebuilder is very secure.  All the information: usernames and passwords are stored on servers.  This allows faculty, staff, and students with administrative rights to be able to set security roles for individuals.

Due to a security vulnerability, identified by the vendor, in Pete's Pagebuilder (DNN), an upgrade is scheduled for the end of July 2009.  The upgrade process duration is estimated to last three days.

During the upgrade process, web sites will be accessible for viewing but administrators will not be able to login, edit or upload any files.  This only applies to sites created using Pete's Pagebuilder (DNN) portal.

In addition, because of the nature of the vulnerability, several file extensions have been temporarily disabled until the upgrade has been completed in order to ensure the integrity of the University's websites.  These extensions are as follows:

• HTML
• JavaScript
• ActiveScript

To those administrators who have content on test (betadept.utep.edu) portal, please copy your content over to production by Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009.  We will need to sync test with production and this will cause any existing data in test to be overwritten.  To copy your content to production, create a page on a current site you administer and then hide the page(s) or send me an email to request a portal on the production environment.

You will be provided with additional information in the upcoming weeks regarding the upgrade.

If you have any questions regarding the upgrade, please send an email to petespagebuilder@utep.edu

The container for the month of July is the DNN-Gray-Text Header-Color Background. You can see an example of this container being used on this page.

Module for the month of July: The News Feeds (RSS) module keeps up with updates directly from the source. Click here to learn how to use the module.