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jberry
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08 Oct 2008 3:03 PM  

I had DNN installed about a year ago and successfully modified my site in many ways.  I haven't touched it in a year and just downloaded 4.09 and have it running on my hosted site.  I have an Admin and Host account.

This is such a silly question because I had it all working a year ago but now I cannot find any way to actually modify the content.  Even something as simple as adding/deleting menus I cannot figure out how to do. 

I also cannot find any clear user documentation to follow.

As an aside, when I go through the initial wizard, I have only one template to select from.  I seem to recall there were more the last time I did this.

Can anyone point me in the direction of documentation on how to make basic modifications?

Thank you in advance.

jncraig
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08 Oct 2008 8:33 PM  
Menus are modified in the skin files.

I believe that later version of DotNetNuke have only one template included.

Take a look on the DotNetNuke website for online documentation. There are also several books that will give you good information. Generally, you create pages, add modules to the pages, and configure the modules.

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leesykes
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10 Oct 2008 10:27 AM  
adding pages is done from the control panel at the top of the page which will be placed into the menu.

For further information have a look at the main tutorials page:
http://www.dnncreative.com/Tutorials/tabid/261/Default.aspx

You may find this is useful - these are free:


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jberry
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13 Oct 2008 8:37 AM  
Thank you both for the replies.  I will get back to the basics here.
jberry
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13 Oct 2008 11:14 AM  

The tutorials were very valuable and I am back on track.  In the latest version, the only skin and container installed is MinimalEntropy.  I was actually looking for the default skin and container that came with previous versions

(DNN Blue, DNN Gray, etc...)

These are shown in the 2nd tutorial video.  I found various sites that offer DNN skins but are these available for the current version?

Thank you again

leesykes
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13 Oct 2008 11:20 AM  
You could download an earlier version of DNN to get hold of the skin files for DNN Blue, the entropy skin is the only skin that comes with DNN 4.9+

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jncraig
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13 Oct 2008 12:34 PM  
DNN skins for "older" versions should work just fine with 4.9.0.

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jberry
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14 Oct 2008 9:19 AM  

Very good, I will do that.  My site is looking very good thanks to DNN.  Thank you again for the help.

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