Introduction to Skinning in DotNetNuke® - part 5

Introduction to DotNetNuke Skinning
By Lee Sykes
January & February 2006

Continuing our series on How to build a DotNetNuke website, this is an introduction to skinning. This video tutorial demonstrates the various components that make up a skin and how a skin works.

The video below covers the following details:

Summary:
  • Why a skin does not use <HTML> <BODY> or <FORM> tags
  • .htm and .ascx and the differences between the two files
  • Placeholders [Tokens] – uniquely identify a skin object
  • Working with images
  • Content Panes and how they are added to a skin – the minimum requirement is for one content pane to be named “ContentPane”
  • Skin.css stylesheet
  • Tokens and the .xml file
  • Skin Objects – attributes
    • If you are using a .htm file the settings of the tokens are provided within the skin.xml file
    • If you are using a .ascx file the settings are provided directly within the .ascx file

Time Length: 11min 36secs

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We are now ready to begin creating our skin. The next tutorial consists of 8 videos detailing how to create a skin for DotNetNuke using Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition.

Part 6 - How to create a skin for DotNetNuke

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