Hi,

I have been trying to convert the "Sonia" XHTML template from http://www.solucija.com/. to a CSS Skin.  As I am new to this technique I only included one the contentpane available to add modules to.  
The skinning engine creates the skin and I have applied it a page.  My problem so far is that when I try to add a module to the contentpane, in spite of the fact that I specify , "contentpane", "Top" in the Control Panel and specify a module, ie. Banners, the module drives down the placement of the module to the bottom of the HouseMenu.  I'm guessing this is a CSS issue.  thanks ahead.

Altein  

Are you then able to move the module "up" on the page?

Dear Mr. Craig,

I cannot move up the modules in the content pane.  This, by the way only happens in IE.  The module instances have the option "Move"->"Up","Top" but selecting these options has no results; the modules instances stay in the same place, the bottom.  In Firefox, the modules instances can be aligned top.

I am having additional problems and I wasn't sure whether to start a new thread.  I am having difficulty with the House Menu.  I had to use the Web Developer's toolbar to modify the CSS in the skin.css to get the correct visual effect in IE.  I uploaded those changes to my skin.  Ironically, having used the web developer's toolbar in Firefox, the skin does not appear correctly in Firefox - the sub-menu items blocks are narrow and the text is "scrunched" up and often overlaps itself.  In IE, the changes in the skin.css file make the House Menu appears correctly, which previously wasn't the case.  Are there any steps I should take to try to troubleshoot this problem?

Thanks ahead,
Altein

You are using the correct steps to locate the problem, the WDToolbar is the best method.

Have you viewed these 2 tutorials:

• How to create a DotNetNuke CSS skin from an XHTML template – part 1
• How to create a DotNetNuke CSS skin from an XHTML template – part 2

As they may provide the extra information you need to convert the XHTML template