You need to go into the Admin/Skins or Host/Skins and click the reparsing of skins in that folder.

You see, html is the staic whay that, to work correctly requires it to be zipped and installed, using the upload skin function - where DotNetNuke then uses the skinning engine to read the html elements, and the xml elements and create a ascx file of the same name.

You can work in the method you are doing - via ftp - but you need to request the skin to be reparsed - so it applies your changes.

Nina Meiers

Oh wow, that's something I've never done  - you don't have to do that. I suggest you ftp to a folder, unzipped,  under the _default/skins/foldername/  or 0/skins/foldername.

Then - go into Admin/Skins (if uploaded to 0) or Host/Skins (if uploaded to _default) and then reparse the skins again to take up the changes.

Or go to Admin/Settings/ and upload from there - and let the skinning engine reparse it.

Where you placed them is really for the upgrading of the complete portal and not the advised way even though it appeared to work for you.

I'm learning something every day here -

Nina Meiers