Thank you for your replies Timo and Nina! I am making progress slowly but surely. I actually stumbled onto the concept of cutting and pasting the code that is in the skin.css into the Stylesheet Editor for Site Settings and I am having a lot better luck achieving my skin goals. While I did not really want to become a DNN skinning expert, I am finding that is what is happening whether I want to or not. Oh well, always good to learn something new. As I mentioned, I am very proficient with HTML and CSS and all I am really looking for is one centralized location for CSS, not several.
With that said, I am close to achieving the look I am going after. One nagging issue I am currently struggling with is this: The DNN site that I am working on is predominantly a black background / white text site. That means that pretty much all of my text and links have to be lighter colors (white, yellow, cyan, lime, etc.). Now, since DNN does not come with a black background type skin, I am making customizing my skin as I go. I am pretty close. However, in using the DNN Blue Fixed Width skin, and modifying the .Normal class (for text display), if I set my (font) color to white (color: white;), it shows up great on my site (without the light blue background container), however, while in my admin module, it is hard to read the white text against the light blue background (obviously). Do you have any recommendations? Does someone have a basic black background / white text skin that I could look at for reference, both for my portal site as well as the admin site?
Thanks so much for your replies and help!