Hi Steve,
You need to connect to the server via WebDAV, then you can freely create and edit the skin files and view the changes immediately in a browser. Frontpage used the FP server extensions for managing the connection, but with EW you really need to use WebDav to get similar results.

It can be a bit of a fiddle getting WebDav working on IIS7 and I advise going over to the iis.net forums to get help. One tip from me - If you have been messing with it quite a bit and it just won't work, go through all the web.configs from the server root down to your DNN app and check that you haven't got conflicting WebDav configurations. The iis gui is better at creating web.config entries than it is at removing them.

Regards,
Rob

Hi Yehuda,

It's really just about having a useful work environment. Having Expression Web hooked up to the server makes for a fast and productive workspace. I'm more interested in design than code and intellisense alone must have saved me years of reading books that I just don't want to read.

Or in a similar vein...  S.Walker could have created DNN in notepad, but Visual Studio has no doubt sped the process up immensely.

But if notepad works, then I think that's fine too.

Regards
Rob

Hi Rob

Thanks for the quick reply. looks like i can accomplish what i want now the question is how <LOL> i went to the iis forums and the expression forums  and so far noone has directions for  expression web v4 and dnn ? and webdav  can you point me to a step by step walk thru ?

Thanks again
Steve