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Joined: 1/24/2007
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I used to like the idea of buying skins, but I bought some that were just plain horrible from a coding standpoind so I too have been resorting to buidling my own.....sometimes I copy from templates....but mostly home grown now...

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3/11/2008 3:29 PM
 
Dan Ambrose


Joined: 9/5/2004
Posts: 19

I've always had great luck using skins from www.salaro.com. The skins look and feel were only surpassed by the customer service from this long time DNN skin provider.

I hope that helps you...

 

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3/12/2008 12:44 PM
 
keeperofstars

Joined: 1/22/2008
Posts: 273

I like tyler's work overall, but just custom code all my skins, cause I refuse to do it the lazy way and use tables. I do pure CSS skins and containers, and hopefully with a bit more time to study up on it I will redoing all my common modules to be xhtml compliant as well. (lol long term goal though) So far I have yet to find a provider that focus's on doing CSS skins. If anyone knows a good site for them let me know. I am required to have W3C / accessible sites, and table based skins fail to pass. If not I will probably start up my own site making custom CSS skins. In general just do a search for webpage templates, to convert a webpage template to DNN is a 30 min process usually. Depending on the template. Otherwise find a cheap skin provider and learn to make your own customizations. It's cheaper to learn how to build DNN skins then it is to buy them.

 
 
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3/13/2008 9:09 AM
 
Jeff Cochran


Joined: 6/3/2005
Posts: 2799

I'll add that, while custom skins are relatively easy to do yourself, the graphic design is not something many people, especially programmers, have a knack for.  That's one reason I seem to find a ton of poor skins around, they just don't look right.  Tweaking a commercial skin is often much more effective than starting from scratch.

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3/13/2008 9:27 AM
 
Armand Datema


Joined: 9/16/2003
Posts: 787

Same here

I do all my skin myselfes. I know what looks good and know my way around javascript xhtml and css. But as a better programmer  and decent designer I prefer to convert designs from others. I think i have converted over 300 skins so far from simple ones to very complex.

As for buying skins, a custom skin is what makes your site stand out , nothing mor irritating than seeing the same site over and over and over with no distinction for your brand and company ( as is the case with those so called popular table infested snowcovered skins )

So far im pretty happy with my css/xhtml  skin coversion niche

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