Simple Red Leaf CSS Skin

Introduction | Features | Installation | Skin Useage | Work in Progress

Features

Accessibility:

All fonts are based on percentages and can be increased / decreased in size within all browsers. This makes the skin accessible for users with visual impairments. (This tutorial explains how to setup font resizing with a DotNetNuke Skin)

Search Engine Friendly:

The skin is search engine friendly.

There is a tag line at the top of the skin which allows you to enter a key phrase for your page. This is placed at the top of your source code enabling search engines to index your page based on your key phrase.
Within the source code, the main content appears before the menu. This allows search engines to easily gain access to your main content and index it. This also allows screen readers easy access to the main content.
The menu is CSS based and completely search engine friendly. All of the links can be read and indexed by the search engines.

Fluid Layout:

The skin expands and contracts to the size of the window.

Hack Management:

The skin uses a minimum of hacks, but even so, those hacks are stored in a separate css file to make it easier to adjust the skin for compatibility with future browsers.

Print Version:

The skin also uses a separate css file so that you can present a printable version of the website. The print version removes the menu and allows the main text to display across 100% of the available print area.

Tested:

The skin has been fully tested against: IE7(beta2), IE6, IE5.5, IE5 (some spacing issues), Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape, Opera and with online viewing of the Safari browser. (This tutorial provides information for testing a skin in DotNetNuke)

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Versions

March 2007 v1.3

Special skin release version for DNN 4.4+
This version uses the new DOC TYPE feature in DNN 4.4+ and enables the DOC TYPE to be selected without making changes to the default.aspx file

May 2006 v1.2

Skin is fully XHTML Transitional 1.0 compliant and passes W3C standards
Fixes to containers, ids changed to classes (mulitiple ids causes invalid code)
Fixes to Javascript function in skin for selecting print.css and iehack.css files for validation

March 2006 v1.0

Initial Release of Skin

License

You are free to download this skin and use it on as many DotNetNuke portals as you wish. But you may not sell this skin or make it available for download on any other site.