I just found a solution for a problem i have had with a lot of skins.
I guess others have done this before, but I didn't find anything (and there might be a better solution)
Hope this will help somebody....

You have a skin (mostly with absolute positioning) that looks great.
Until you login, then everything starts to move because of the containers showing up and for some panes there is just not enough space. Some will even overlap.

The solutiuon I found:

Put a div around your current skin, and give it a class name of the current user.

<div class="<%=DotNetNuke.Entities.Users.UserController.GetCurrentUserInfo.UserName%>">
    <Your Skin>
</div>

Now you can create some specific CSS if the Admin user logs in:

.mydiv /*-- for all the other users*/
    {
    width:100px;
    height:100px;
    }

.admin .mydiv /*-- for the admin user*/
    {
    width:150px;
    height:200px;
    }

Added march 10 - 2007
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This is definitely cool for changing things for other roles.. but for the admin account, wouldn't you normally just specify an Admin skin and/or container? That's pretty much what that function is for.

Rob

Rob

I forgot to mention:
Another thing is that the admin skin is only used for admin pages.
The normal pages are displayed using the aplied skin even if you are logged in as admin / host.
Only the admin pages are displayed with the admin skin (if you are editing a text for instance).

By the way if somebody uses this it might be nice to add some style for the host too.

.admin .mydiv, .host .mydiv
    {
    width:150px;
    height:200px;
    }

A nice enhancement for DNN would be to add a class to the body tag of DNN with the currently logged in username...
I'm stil looking for a way to change the skin for a certain user group....

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