Hello all,

I'm very new to DNN and would very much like to know more on how to work with it.  I came arcoss your site and after siffing through a few of your tutorials I'm very interesting in joining so I can learn more.

I was curious though, are the video tutorials out of date with the latest version of DNN?  At least the ones I was looking at, mostly on Skinning, seem to be from 2006.  Are you basically showing me how to create legecy skins?

When I read on DNN forums on Skinning they talks about how "DNN 5 skin needs manifest file, listing all the files in the package, a DNN 5 skin is not a simple zip file anymore."  I've also downloaded a few free DNN5 skins and after reviewing the contents, there is no skin.zip or contain.zip files, its just full of .ascx and .css files for the skin and container. 

I do see that you have a lot of tutorials and articles, which I'm sure addres some of this, I may have just not gotten to them.  But since I'm so new to this, I just don't want to start off on the wrong foot.

Thanks,
Bob

Hello,

Good question, the tutorials are not out of date, the principles of building a skin are exactly the same in DNN5, the only difference is they have added a few new features and a different method for packaging a skin.

These methods have been covered here:

• DotNetNuke ASCX Skinning for Professional Skinners
• DotNetNuke Nav Menu
• How to Package a Skin for DotNetNuke 5
• Nav Menu v2 for DotNetNuke v5
• Skin Object Tokens for DotNetNuke 5
• Super Stylesheets Skinning in DotNetNuke 5 - DNN Layouts

The way the tutorials work is that we build on the knowledge from previous tutorials, so to get an understanding of skinning I would suggest you begin with issue 5 & 6 to understand the principles and then you may want to progress onto some of the CSS skinning and SEO skins tutorials followed by these tutorials above.

Thanks,

Lee

Thanks Lee, that good to hear..

See ya on the inside.. :-)

Bob