Can anyone help here. I am new to asp and dotnetnuke but I am enjying learning. I am a web designer with experience in flash, html, php and others but not this. I created a skin then I am getting this error when trying to install or preview the new skin. What do I need to look at? Where is the error? Hee is the message:

Could Not Load Skin: /Portals/_default//skins/blush/blush.ascx, Error: Unknown server tag 'dnn:USER'.

Any help is greatly appeciated.

Thanks in advance

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Br0n$0n

Sounds like you didn't register the tag in your ASCX file.  Top of the file, after the first <%@ Control... line, should be a series of tag registrations.  You should have one that looks like this:

<%@ Register TagPrefix="dnn" TagName="USER" Src="~/Admin/Skins/User.ascx" %>

Without that, the server tag will be unknown.

Jeff

Also, an option that's worked pretty well, for me, is to go into your main folder which houses your skin(s) and open the .png files in PS, or other.... Make your alterations and resave, there-in replacing the initial files. My recommendation is to rename the files the same, but add something like, 'XX' in the front of the name; that way, when you save your changes you can just omit the preface and you're good.