Hi all,

I was wondering if somebody already has a solution to what I am currently looking for:

I have 1 domain X and I have domain aliases Y and Z. Y and Z have two different url's, but use the same database and content of X. However, I would like to give them a different look and feeling. Different colors for instance. I do not have only 1 skin, but different skins to so that some pages have no right pane.  I was wondering how I could give Y and Z those different colors?

I was thinking about adding a column to portalalias with a css filename and then change the default.aspx to link this css so that this css will be applied and overrules the css loaded initially by dnn?

Maybe you have different ideas, I would like to discuss a bit about this before I implement it. I am C# based, not VB, so takes me some more effort to make it work.

J.

Hi John,

Interesting approach if you only need to load one different skin per portal. However, I have a default portal with various skin layouts. That is one with right, content, top and left pane and another the same, but without the right pane, or no left pane either. Let's call this approach I). So on different tabid's you might need to load a different skin. Maybe this can be tackled in the same way with portal resource files. I.e.

Default skins: skin.ascx as default, skin_norightpane.ascx

Alias for portalalias10: and skin.alias-10.ascx  and skin_norightpane.alias-10.ascx

Alias for portalalias 13: skin.portal-13.ascx. etc.

However, I understood only some colors need to be different. What about linking different css in similar way?

Default> skin.css

Alias 10: skin.css + skin.alias10.css (with changes that override on skin.css)

Alias 13: skin.css + skin.alias13.css etc.

Will this kind of linking work? I will call it approach II.

And I also can across someting like theming? Could this be approach III?

J.