By Lee Sykes
January & February 2006
Continuing our series on How to build a DotNetNuke website, this is an introduction to skinning. This video tutorial demonstrates the various components that make up a skin and how a skin works.
The video below covers the following details:
Summary:
- Why a skin does not use <HTML> <BODY> or <FORM> tags
- .htm and .ascx and the differences between the two files
- Placeholders [Tokens] – uniquely identify a skin object
- Working with images
- Content Panes and how they are added to a skin – the minimum requirement is for one content pane to be named “ContentPane”
- Skin.css stylesheet
- Tokens and the .xml file
- Skin Objects – attributes
- If you are using a .htm file the settings of the tokens are provided within the skin.xml file
- If you are using a .ascx file the settings are provided directly within the .ascx file
Time Length: 11min 36secs