What no videos to go with the skins this month ;=}

I like the new DNN Creative Skin. It is nice to see that the ContentPane text is very close to the top of the HTML page and that the menu is after it.

I haven't installed the skins yet, but I do wish that there was another Menu choice for CSS skins than the House of Nuke.  I have had problem with it, as I need a multi-level horizontal menu.  Also there doesn't seem to have been any on-going development of it for a couple of years. Are there any other choices - free or for pay?  BTW which version of the House of Nuke menu are you using?

I am currently using DNN360's menu. I have looked at the Snapsis menu, which I have seen do what I want. However, the docs don't tell how to get it to work the way I like.

You are cornering the market on CSS xhtml compliant DNN skins! Almost nobody else seems to be doing them. Maybe now that you have produced 5 of them others, including DNN, will be forced into doing some - I hope.

Keep up the good work,

/DaveS

Take a look at Snapsis' CSS NavMenu. It is a pure CSS menu. It's also quite flexible.

I use Snapsis NavMenu, and i know John will help you to use it as you want. You may want to tell me which documents you needed?

Nice to hear you like the skin. - Yes the contentpane source code technique is a new one that I have developed which mixes the use of floats for the content and absolute positioning for other elements such as menu / login links etc. so that they can be placed after the main content.

House of Nuke version on the the new skins is 1.4beta - I think Tim is currently working on a new version.

Red Leaf was orginally designed for v1.3

Yes I am going to take a look at the snapsis menu as it looks as though it could be useful for those types of menus.

Cheers,

http://january.skincovered.com used snapsis menu and andrea skin.  Are you member there?

Interesting, no I haven't looked at skincovered. - I would have converted a different skin if I had known. - Well, you can download it for free now ;-)

It's interesting to compare the 2 conversions, it looks as though I have stuck a bit closer to the original design with implementing header tags through the containers for semantic coding and styling search and login links.

Plus, this version implements font re-sizing - like the original and sticks to the original text styling.

Well, hope you find it useful, thanks,

There is also skin for sale Andrea - on snowcovered too, but anyway it all works out at the end of the day.  Everyone will think theirs is best and they all look ok to me. my reason to post on here was to tell this person that if they have the snapsis menu they can use the code in the skincovered skin. It was not to compare which one is better. thanks
/Nic

I just took a look at the guts of your new DNNCreative skin vs the 5 free ones.  I hope that you will do a video on the SEO optimizations that appear in the DNN Creative skin and css file so that the ContentPane text appears ahead of the menu and many other items in the HTML file.

I am sure that they were a lot of work and that is why they don't appear in the free skins. I suspect that a lot of debugging went into the absolute positions that makes it work.

Now I have to figure out how to do the same things for my site.  I hope that it isn't as much work as I suspect.

Like your new site layout using the background for the color and having very plain containers.

Hi Dave,

The 5 free skins layout structure is identical to the original designers templates that they came from which is why they don't use the new method I have developed in the dnn creative skin.

It wasn't actually that much work to use absolute positioning and I will be creating a video on this in a future issue. - If you are in a rush you may be able to work it out from looking at the CSS code of the DNN creative skin using the Firefox web developers toolbar.

Thanks,

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curiously_green.template is not a valid Portal Template File.

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Any idea why I may be getting this error when using the Site Wizard to build the curiously_green template?

I've extracted: curiously_green.template and curiously_green.template.resources to \Portals\_default.

Any help would be appreciated...

 

I have been experimenting with CSS skin in DNN. Whenever I swap out the default.aspx file for the one that has an XHTML doctype, I only see a blank page - no content whatsover, just a white screen.

 

Is there a change needed in web.config to make this work? I've seen mention of that here and there but it isn't clear that such a change is needed.

 

Sorry if I missed this somewhere in the docs or tutorials.

Also ... has anyone converted the Active Forums template to CSS non-table-based layout?

for anyone else reading this, the solution was posted here

If you are using the latest version of DNN you do not need to change the default.aspx file for XHTML transitional DOC TYPES, they are automatically configured by the skin. Have a look at:

• How to select DOC TYPES in DotNetNuke 4.4
• How to create an XHTML Compliant DotNetNuke 4.4
• XHTML Compliant DotNetNuke 4.4 and 4.5 - part 2

I haven't converted active forums to just divs instead of tables, but I have gone through the CSS code and stripped it down using shorthand.