OK I may be showing my brand newness in dnn and really in .NET altogether. A really cool thing i picked up in .net right away was the .master page. I have wondered for years why they never did something formal like this. Maybe they did but I just created a "template" page with the header, footer, nav and a table for the body and then just copy and paste this for each new page.

From what I can tell, DNN doesn't use the .master page .. Is there an alternative to this somehow??

I am hired to design my company's intranet portal and I want to use DNN. I have an outlay of how I want the pages to look and what content I want to start off with which will be a document library for my first part. How do i start off with the front page design??

Jonathan

So what your saying to start developing my intranet site, I need to develop a skin? And then use that skin throuhgout my new site.

But do you actually do layout in a skin? My thought of a skin is basically a huge css that changes colors, borders, properties, etc

Is a skin going to give me a layed out page for every new page I start with the logo on top, the nav on the left side and the footer at the bottom?

Yes, skins are for layout.