Hi t.,

Well, skinning takes a little getting used to, but if you get the idea, it's as simple as making a normal html website. In fact, you create a website in html and then you apply a few rules so the dnn skinning mecanism knows what to do to make your page a working skinfile.

You should defenitly download the documents and read the chapter about skinning. You'll get it right from the start, it isn't that complex :).

Well, are you running dnn from visual studios? If yes, there is your answer... vs uses a debugger and that makes your site running very slow. Online, i haven't had any problems yet... so a normal hosting does work fine.

Hope this was usefull,
sending my best regards,

Thomas

I wouldnt worry too much if the thumbnails werent appearing as it most likely wont be because you installed it wrong as they are created from the images supplied in the skin pack by the author. If the author was too lazy or unprofessional etc then he probably did not included them, hence there being no preview thumbnails. This wont effect the skins at all thou, just means there no preview availble image available for the end user.

as for skin compatibility there can be a few little issues between versions of dnn, however generally speaking your ok, it only really major issues with the much older versions of dnn eg version 2x. If you follow the dnn skinning guide on this site you wont go far wrong.

Hope this helps,

DrNuke