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6/1/2008 5:04 AM
 

OK… I give up.

 

I am trying to do what should be a very simple skinning task within the Registration Module. Actually three tasks at hand to be exact; at least to begin with.

 

The simple tasks at hand are:

 

  1. Place the input fields below their corresponding text descriptions. For example, ‘User Name’ will have its input field below it rather than beside it, and the same for ‘First Name’, ‘Last Name’ and etc…
  2. Also, let us get ride of those nasty leftward facing red arrows. A simple comment will do within/under the “Preferred User Information”.
  3. To add, the blue question marks can be lovingly placed anywhere, except next to such simple questions as typing your first and last name. 

 

I have kicked the tires everywhere, and sucked up 5 months worth of “Registration” Forum Searches, only to see our dear Sebastian state over and over: “Admin>Control>User” and BTW “do not modify the Core” …

 

Has anyone been able to do the above three tasks?

 

If so, your comments/suggestions would be most welcomed.

 

Roger

 

PS, I do know how to edit the "Preferred User Information", and yes I know there currently exists almost a dozen different .resx files in which to edit the simple description: "User Name".

 

PS PS, *Sigh*, and yes, sorry Sebastian, I had to do it. I have bastardized and bent the Core at length in hopes it may acquiesce to my will in having it display, as I think it should display. Any .aspx tips would also be appreciated.

 
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6/3/2008 8:45 PM
 

Roger-

I don't have an answer but am looking for some similar formatting type stuff for the registration page.  It sounds like your search was exhaustive, but I will reply back if I find anything of worth.

Good Luck.

PG

 
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6/4/2008 10:36 AM
 

The problem with what you want to do is that it's not "skinning" the module or page, it's rewriting the code that creates the page.  And yes, that's modifying the core, with all the issues behind that choice.

Jeff

 
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6/9/2008 2:00 AM
 

Paul and Jeff,

Whelp, my journey took me to Data Springs’ Forms 2.6., as well as their Dynamic Registration.

It is costly should you wish to produce at the enterprise level, but well worth the expenditure as it offers a vast array of differing ways in which to present your website, both in function and design.

The problem at hand, at least in regards to this specific post, is more a function of programming style/strategy of DNN’s core.

ASP.NET's “code-behind model” originally had in mind to separate a developer’s code from a designer’s mark up, thus allowing both to complete their respective tasks without much infringement upon the other. A noble wish within a perfect world to be sure, however, reality states differently especially within the context of an ongoing development of a templated framework such as DNN; but more importantly, within the context of an open sourced framework.

But honestly, the inability to augment the most simplistic markup aspects of such important functions of a website, such as the registration/login page, at least in my humble opinion, is a significant unbalanced infringement within this delicate balancing act between function and design. And again, at least at front value, a result of perhaps too many programmers and not enough good designer’s within DNN’s Core Team.

And as nothing more than a footnote, the above most likely funnel’s itself directly towards the important question of DNN’s development horizon. Namely, does it have a good eye on it’s customer base? And yes, even open sourced projects do have definitive and well descriptive customers/users.

At empathy, I think I would put my money towards the majority being somewhere between a ‘Go Daddy’ website developer and one who falls just shy to client side SQL/Java scripting. Perhaps a reason why Sebastian sounds so frustrated at times 

Anyways, at the minimum, this post is nothing more than ‘grassroots’ swaying in the wind..

Roger

 
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