I've istalled DotNetNuke_Community_06.01.00_Install. The option Host---->Moduledefinition is not displayed. Can anyone pls help me out

That page is now called Extensions and is under the Host menu.

+1 to the question of where to find the files referenced in the How to build Skins for DNN 6.x. I can't find them either.

Scroll down this page for the links.

I am new to this but I just can't locate the PSD Tutorials file. In the video, you say that it is on the PSD to DNN page but I can't locate this page.

I am new to this but I just can't locate the PSD Tutorials file. In the video, you say that it is on the PSD to DNN page but I can't locate this page.

This page: http://www.dnncreative.com/Home/tab...fault.aspx

Look at the last link under Video 1.

Hi Andy, This is a wonderful and clear series on the skin creation process. I tried the CSS3PIE you showed in the last video and wondered if you've gotten it work on other .css files besides a container.css. I tried to apply to a ventrian news article template.css file and a Live tabs jquery custom css file and the behavior doesn't display in IE8 after it was added to any of the elements. Any thoughts? I noticed a mention on the CSS3PIE website about the server serving the correct Content-Type and wasn't sure if that was possibly the issue. We're hosted on PowerDNN so not sure if there's a server configuration they're not doing or what. Thanks for any suggestions on this. Kris

Kris,

I suspect that your problem is related to the URL for PIE.htc. You may recall Andy's statement in the tutorial that that the URL needed to be relative to the default.aspx directory. You will want to make sure that, for modules, you use the correct path to the PIE.htc file. As a test, try placing a copy of the file in a module's root directory and see if that does the trick. If it does, you can then adjust the URL's path and remove the copy.

Dear Mr Stephenson, thank you very much for the tutorial. I have made a skin applied in my site http://www.expertsoftware.gr and it is based on the info you provided in this tutorial. But I have some problems and I need your help. As you can see in the site I use 2 jquery scripts using the banner container that comes preinstalled with dotnenuke. In order to use the jquery file I use inside the skin the following declarations

Do these declarations create javascript conflicts? I packaged the jquery files with the skin files and I wonder whether this is a good approach. Why I am asking all these things? Because the site response time is extremely slow and I try to find out what is wrong. Moreover if you try this site in firefox it finds many css mistakes. For example it does not understand the attribute "behavior" . I used to the way you advised in the tutorial. Do these css mistakes create problems? Thank you very much in advance Christopher Adamakis

Christopher,

It looks like you may have solved at least some of the problem as I don't see javascript or jquery errors on your site. Are you still having problem?

I think that the jquery cycle plugin is already included in that container. You can look at the container's source to verify that.

I still have problems with performance, and I try to find where they come from. The response time is extremely slow. Does it have to do with the configuration of the server?

When you speak of the response time, are you referring to the time it takes to see the first page load, or moving from page to page. When I just looked at your site, it seems reasonably quick.

If the problem is loading the first page, you likely have a "keep alive" issue that is associated with all ASP.NET sites. If you Google "Keep Alive" you will find ways to solve this problem.

If it is page to page, then server issues could be a problem. More memory and separating the SQL Server from IIS are the usual steps to take.

Also, don't forget to take a look at the sizes of your pages. There are techniques for dealing with those issues. YSlow is a good tool for tracking down those sorts of problems, too.

Thank you very much for youe replies!!! They are rely useful. The proplem is loading first page, and now I try to understand what is the keep alive issue. Is this something on the configuration?

Thank you very much for your time

The way that IIS works is that it unloads sites that have inactivity for 20 minutes. If you control IIS, you can change that configuration item. If you can't, a keep alive is a program that visits the site every 5 or so minutes to keep it from being unloaded. Some hosts (PowerDNN is a notable one) use a keep alive to keep their hosted sites loaded.

Will there be an update of the tutorial file (the PSD. ascx and css files in the archive) to reflect the changes made over the chapters (even just adding the end files would be ok).

Somewhere along the line some mistake crept in my files, and I can't seem to get rid of it. Having the final files might rule out issues in my portal.css as well.

I really enjoyed this series of videos. At the end of video 14 it refers users to video 15. Where might I find video 15 on DNN 6.x Skinning? Thank you.

Dear all, I have one more question regarding greek fonts. If you check my site http://www.expertsoftware.gr the breadcrump appears as You are here: . The phrase You are here is hardcoded in the skin file as the tutorial mentioned. If I change this to greek everything appears wrong. Any ideas how this can be fixed?

Thank you in advance one more time

I'd recommend that you try replacing the hard-coded text with the DotNetNuke Text skin object. That allows you to add a bit of localized text to your skin. Will Strohl has a nice little blog post about it here:
http://www.willstrohl.com/Blog/Entr...kin-Object

I am trying to make two panes in the header from the tutorial. I thought it would work similar to the lowerpanes but I am getting a stack top and bottom display. Can you suggest a way to get this to work?
Here is the HTML and CSS:

HTML:

<div id="HeaderPaneRight" runat="server" >