Hi everyone,

I am posting a couple sites here to get some feedback on stuff that we are doing with dnn skins.  Please let me know if you can tell these are dnn sites just by looking at them.  I have done alot of work on these to make them not look like dnn at all.  These sites are integrated into our system, which in essence takes care of all thier information, meetings, membership, contacts, financial's, marketing, fundraising, inventory, and much more.  The sites here are just thier web sites which allow all thier member's to login and sign up for meetings and other things.  I will be posting more sites as time goes, these are just the first 2 clients that we went live with, we have 5 more going live in the next month or so.

http://www.ahna.org
http://www.restonchamber.org

Brandon,

Thanks for the Feedback, and thanks for pointing out the copyright, i had totally forgot to turn that off when we went live with these.

Andrew

Hi Chuck,

Those are both good points.  I've seen some sites where the help icon is simply replaced with something else (it's in the /images subdirectory), or, less commonly, by an invisible spacer image.  It would be nice if DNN allowed better UI replacement in an upgrade-friendly manner, but such is life.

You're right about the "dnn_" controlIds; I noticed them as well.  One can actually change this prefix via Default.aspx.vb on or about line 557 to something else without problem.  If a one- or two-character prefix is chosen, you actually save a little payload at the same time.  No core changes required, but you'll have to propagate the change forward across upgrades.

Same with the forms and anonymous cookies -- can be changed in web.config.  I didn't check to see what cookies were associated with the site, so this may have been done already.

Getting rid of the includes in the js/ subdirectory is a little more difficult.

There are all non-visual issues, so I'm not sure about how much Andrew is interested in cleaning them up, but all are good general tips nonetheless.

Brandon