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4/8/2011 10:33 AM
 
Armand Datema wrote:
well next time you need a skin converted you can contct me I can do a mean conversion and have been here since the beginning and I do like to keep my good name in the community :)

 I just submitted the contact form on your web site with some information about my next project. 

 
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4/8/2011 11:03 AM
 
Wes Tatters wrote:
FWIW - most of the markup errors seem to be related to lazy coding mistakes on the skin.

Changing the couple of lines in the skin will remove those errors - but to be honest they are not really affecting your site's appearance as such.

Westa

 Hey Wes, I don't do much coding at all, but I have worked on stuff before, mostly copy/paste with scripts and things like that, but I do know my way around markup and know or can look up what most tags are for.  With that said, I was hoping you or someone else could help guide me a bit to finding the code that needs to be tweaked.  Now, if I open the folders on the server where the portal resides (by the way, I run a data center that provides hosting services so I am accessing this stuff over a mapped network drive to the server that is hosting that web site) .....anyway this is a screen shot of %webroot%/portals/0/Skins/ZRLD:

Click Here to see the screenshot (New Window)

Should I assume that the code that needs to be fixed will be found on the files "Portal.ascx" and "inner.ascx?"

 
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4/8/2011 3:32 PM
 
Ian Marlow wrote:

Oh Yes - forgot to mention
http://oliverhine.com/DotNetNuke/Modules/Keywordification.aspx

A free DNN module that lets you deal with all your sites meta data in one place.

Thanks for this Oliver. 

 
I don't know who Oliver is, but if you are reading this post, Oliver, THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!  That module is terrific!  I'm using it now and plan on donating to your cause!

 
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4/8/2011 6:27 PM
 
Oliver is another one of those amazing people in the DNN community that give freely an amazing amount of code and clever modules back to DNN users.

Westa
 
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4/8/2011 7:19 PM
 
Depending on how he has set up your skin it will most likely be in portal.ascx

have a look for this line of code 

<link href="skin.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

It should be in the first couple of lines of the file -  it is an invalid link reference since dnn actually handles the injection of the skin.css stylesheet into the finished site.

It is not breaking your site in any way - but it does cause a small an additional overhead as the browser attempts to file the file.

Basically it should not really be there in the skin - the whole line can be deleted - for your production site - keep a copy of the file with it left in though as it makes it easier to edit the skin in tools that know how to show the information display layout from the stylesheet

Next - look for:

<td nowrap="nowrap"><a class="more" href="/Contact.aspx"><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;CONTACT&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></a></p></td>

it has a </p> near the end of the line that should not be there ...

<td nowrap="nowrap"><a class="more" href="/Contact.aspx"><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;CONTACT&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></a></td>

Next - look for:

<td nowrap="nowrap"><a class="more" href="/Directions.aspx"><span>DIRECTIONS</span></a></p></td>

same thing here remove </p>:

<td nowrap="nowrap"><a class="more" href="/Directions.aspx"><span>DIRECTIONS</span></a></td>

I would have to say however, that while the skin does work apart from this - it is not in a totally suitable format for future development - it uses the old <table layout methodology for its layout, instead of using the more recommended css <div based layout system.

Its not breaking anything as such - but have a read of this article some time - it talks about how things should really be done.

http://www.hotdesign.com/seybold/

Westa
 
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