I asked my assistant to create a page for me and pursue an idea that I had for our intranet.  I thought it would be a fun learning experience for him.  

Well he came running in a little while later, frantic that he had broken the site.  When I looked, there was no Home page.

I think what he did was rather than create a new page, he started modifying the Home page, removing modules, changing the permissions, etc.  Yikes! 

So, in Admin > Pages, I found the page he was working on and using Settings I renamed it Home.  I put the permissions back on for everyone to view the page, and I replaced the modules.  Whew.  I then went to his desk to give him some remedial training on creating pages, etc...

Okay so now my Home page is close but not quite right.  What I notice is that my links are now underlined on the Home page.  Any other page the links are not underlined.  If I create a new page the links are not underlined.

If I highlight a link and then Inspect Element, it sees my skin.css has a:link { text decoration: none}.  However that is overwritten by an embedded style in the html of Home.aspx that says a: text decoration: underlined.  See attached snippet.

The Page Skin settings for Home are set to Portal Default, same as every other page on the site.

I would go rip out the offending embedded style in home.aspx but I cant find that file and I have never understood how Home.aspx is created or how to manipulate the code there.

Sorry for the long post.  I hope to learn something from this.
Doxey

Hello,

The embedded style is likely to be placed within a text / html module that is on your Home page.

You can not find the page Home.aspx as DNN doesn't create "pages" the data is stored in the database and no physical pages are created.

So, I would look at the source code of the home page and see if you can find where the embedded style is placed, from there you should be able to work out which module you need to edit on the home page.

You may find this useful reading:
An Introduction to the Principles of DotNetNuke

If the styles are not defined in a Text/HTML module, they might be defined in either the Header or Footer setting of a module.  You'll need to go to each module on the page, open up the Page Settings and then look for the Header and Footer setting under Advanced Settings.

Thanks so much for your help. The View Source tip, so simple, was effective. I went right to the problem - a cut and paste from Word into a blog post on that page. As it turns out, the trouble had nothing to do with the debacle regarding the Home page being modified. I cut the offending content from the blog post, pasted it into a text editor to clear out underlying code, then pasted the text back into the blog post. This cleared up the styling on the page. I will instruct my bloggers not to do that anymore. Thanks!

You can also warn bloggers to use the Paste from Word tool.  It's often helpful.  For major things, I'll paste into Notepad, and cut-n-paste from there into the website.

You can also take a hint from the forums here, and limit what your bloggers can do.  Lee has a couple of quite useful tutorials on configuring the F(CK) Editor.

Oh ... the current versions of DotNetNuke do let you use the Telerik Rad Editor instead of the (F)CK Editor.  Go to the Telerik site, download a module, and install it.  Takes about 5 minutes, including the time to read the instructions.  Some folks find that editor more useful.

You can also warn bloggers to use the Paste from Word tool.  It's often helpful.  For major things, I'll paste into Notepad, and cut-n-paste from there into the website.

You can also take a hint from the forums here, and limit what your bloggers can do.  Lee has a couple of quite useful tutorials on configuring the F(CK) Editor.

Oh ... the current versions of DotNetNuke do let you use the Telerik Rad Editor instead of the (F)CK Editor.  Go to the Telerik site, download a module, and install it.  Takes about 5 minutes, including the time to read the instructions.  Some folks find that editor more useful.