I watched the 3-part video, "How to Customize a DNN Skin". Lots of great information in there. Thanks for producing that. I did not realize the Chrome browser was so developer friendly. Wow!

In this video series you did not address the important issue of how to deal with skin updates since changing the original skin and css files will complicate the update process. A colleague of mine suggested creating a new CSS file with a unique name, e.g. My_Custom_Skin.css and importing this file into Skin.css with the declaration @import url ("Resources/css/My_Custom_Skin.css");

Hence, the next time there is an update all you need to do is add that line to the end of the import list in the new/updated skin.css file. This will cause your custom changes to override the original css rules. As for custom skin files (ascx), these are based on the original files, but have unique names and are applied to the pages where you need them, for example a blog page.

Do you agree with this strategy?

Daniel,

I think that this is a reasonable stragegy.

For the most part, I don't often see lots of skin upgrades. So, this sort of thing is not likely to come up often in my work.

What I will do, though, is rename the skin so that it is distinct from what it started life as.

am new to DNN plses can anybody help me on how to acheave any of the following or any direction

how do l do about the how to adapt the standard DotNetNuke Announcements Module into a fully functional jQuery Announcements Content Slider using the present DNN
2:How want make banner silider in the home page of my site pls can your direct me to the link if you have done one
4: How to creat photo galary page or any free modules
5:Creat a page for down load
6;how u make tutorial on creating a shop for selling download books or anything
7: paying using paypay or any others
8: any availabe skin to donload
9: how to l make each page to use diffrent skin

You'll find answers to most, if not all, of your questions by looking through our catalog of video tutorials. Please ask if there is something that you cannot find.

1. May, 2001 tutorial
2. Similar to 1. You could use the Announcements module as the source of the banners. Look also at 2Sexy Content as a great module for this sort of thing.
4. There are nice modules for this codeplex.com (search for Will Strohl) and oliverhine.com.
5. There are modules (Documents, Repository), or you can use HTML and/or any "articles" module. It depends on how you want to set it up.
6. Look throught the tutorials, and also there are free and commercial "store" modules.
7. See the current tutorial, or the various store modules.
8. Just "apply" a different skin to each page.

Please ask any or all questions you have, but the above should get you started.

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