Hello,

Timo has given me lots of help on a skin being chopped up once it goes live.  This turned out to be the doctype.xml file not being renamed as well as the skin .ascx file.  It appeared to work locally but won't work on the live server.  We're on Go Daddy, if that helps.

The full issue is, I can't simply copy/rename a Catalyst .ascx file, also copy/rename it's associated doctype.xml file and have it work live.  The css classes remain unchanged in the Catalyst skin file, so the skin css files probably are not the issue.

Just as a simple test, I copied/renamed anything with the skinfile.ascx name and naturally it didn't work but I thought it might be a good guess.

So, here's what I've done:

1.  Copied the Catalyst 2 Template-Boxed-Flash-900x183-01.ascx file and renamed it to TMP-Template-Boxed-Flash-900x183-01.ascx
2.  Copied the Catalyst 2 Template-Boxed-Flash-900x183-01.doctype.xml file and renamed it to TMP-Template-Boxed-Flash-900x183-01.doctype.xml

I refreshed the screen, set the skin in Admin | Site Settings | Appearance and clicked "Preview" -- no joy.  So, I tried a real stretch here, found all files with the prefix of Template-Boxed-Flash-900x183-01, copied and renamed these.  I didn't count on it working but figured I may as well give it a shot.  Naturally, it did not.

Looking at some javascript in the file, I found in the renamed file this line:
var params = { wmode: "transparent", FlashVars: "XMLpath=<%= SkinPath %>Template-Boxed-Flash-900x183-01.images.xml" };

OK, just to be consistent, knowing I'd already copied any file with the prefix above and renamed it, so the images.xml file was also copied, edited the js to read:
var params = { wmode: "transparent", FlashVars: "XMLpath=<%= SkinPath %>TMP-Template-Boxed-Flash-900x183-01.images.xml" };

This looks like a style sheet issue but again, none of the class names changed.  What I've had to do is edit the actual file and keep careful record of changes.

I'm sure this is something easy that I've overlooked but I'm missing it.  Any ideas?

Thanks,

Mike