Hi all, I am new to DNN. Not sure if I have taken the right approach here.
I am transferring an existing site which is pretty much just a crappy CMS and I am doing the look and feel (ie skinning). The menu is quite interesting as it is comprised of lots of images (not all lined up) and drop downs. I didn't see anything great with the menu modules that would let me do this so I decided to just put the menu in the skin. So my first question, is this a bad design move?

So I've created a control (ascx) for my skin and to seperate the content, created another control just for this funky menu. That second control has a code file as well (this is all .NET 2.0) which currently outputs a hardcoded menu but will potentially output a dynamic menu. The data that gets output is mostly javascript, and in that javascript is html, so you end up having code that looks like this:  var menu = [\"\", \"<img src=\"something.gif\">"];
Because this is in the code behind file, when I upload the skin, it doesn't get "parsed" properly, and the image references aren't recreated properly. So I need a nice safe way to fix this. I could just hardcode the path for the portal number, but if I ever reuse it on a second portal, it won't point to the right location.

By the way, the javascript menu system uses JSCook and even these files aren't working properly. The include path for the javascript doesn't get parsed and changed.

Naturally I could get around this by just dumping all the files one level from root, but then I'd be bypassing the whole skinning concept. I'd like to keep it real!

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance, Steven