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3/10/2006 6:48 PM
 
Nina M


www.berrydigital.com.au
Joined: 1/23/2004
Posts: 1961

It's the time - mainly the time to create individual sets of containers, container classes that don't clash, and check them all.

  • And find that in reality no one used them.
  • And they can be fiddly little critters sometimes
  • And some look bad in different browsers

And I prefer to provide pane level skinning - eg.. forces container to be used and is an integral part of skin design.  Whic on most commercial skins I do for clients - I implement this without discussion becuase I get a storyboard of what they want, with the different colours - I can then apply the containers automatically.

So they are just my reasons.. and sometimes I use css to manage pane colours, and such -

What I find is when my clients start using their sites -they want to do more things with them, maybe changing colours and such so the containers they apply don't always work unless I apply more complex css management to the container to change the font size / font type between panes and that all starts to get hard to guess at times.

And proabaly becuase I'm redoing some of my older skins for repackging, and redoing the containers, you have caught me in a more fickle mood when it comes to skinning them... You know, like a song you hear too many times - you just don't want to listen for a while. 

Nina Meiers

Nina Meiers My Little Website
If it's on DNN, I fix, build, deploy, support,skin, host, design, consult, implement, integrate and done since 2003.
Who am I? Just a city chic, having a crack at organic berry farming.. and creating awesome websites.
 
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5/16/2006 6:15 AM
 
Timm Rebitzki

Joined: 4/11/2006
Posts: 4

Nina,

just butting in on this thread with a related problem.

I'm using your xdmediablue skin, like it a lot! I'd like the modules in the content pane to have a larger font size, though. The text in the modules is decorated with the "Normal" class. If I boost the font size for this class in /Portals/_default/default.css, the text in the modules in the left pane gets bigger too. Not what I want. I'd like the left pane to remain at the 11px font.

Can you point me to the place where I can do this?

Timm
 
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5/16/2006 6:36 AM
 
Timm Rebitzki

Joined: 4/11/2006
Posts: 4

Nina,

I found one place where it works:

I put

td#dnn_ContentPane table tr td table tr td div span { font-size: 12px;}

in /Portals/_default/default.css

Sort of a hack, but it works for now. Maybe you have a better idea?

Timm
 
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7/1/2006 10:41 AM
 
John Cornelison


Joined: 7/15/2005
Posts: 429
nina wrote
Hi Stuart - yes you'll find some skins don't have containers.. and for the free skins I do in particular... some have containers and others don't.. mainly due to time constraints.. and the fact I'm not a great fan of them.
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I don't use them on my site - instead I use the tabbed aggregator module - which I did skin/colour in css, and maybe in a few places I might put in one container.

Nina, could you elaborate on this as this seems to be a new concept I've not seen in my ramblings through the various books & DNN sites? How do you get any content on your panes without containers? Do you mean you are simply using a single minimalist container with no formatting? Or do you have an elaborate ascx page - although I think you have said you don't program?

For instance a random page of yours, http://www.xd.com.au/skinning.xd, seems to have navigation pane of left with two containers on right. The right containers are what you call the tabbed aggregator module, right?

(BTW where is this tabbed aggregator from? I've searched the forums  in past 4 months without success . My best solution for this so far has been "SimpleTabModule" from Friends Software:
http://www.friendsoftware.ro/Produse/DNNModules/SimpleTabModules/tabid/105/Default.aspx)

I'm doing my own skin (for www.vipp.org eventually, an old public snapshot of what I'm working on is up at www.vashon.biz), and about to try to come up with my container appearances, since I think I've got my basic content up and my panes more or less where I want them. Currently I'm still using the default Speerio containers. (Nik is god, Nik is god!!!)

Nina, your past help to *everyone* is *much* appreciated!

- John
www.VashonSoftware.com
 
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7/1/2006 6:38 PM
 
Bill Mason


www.wcm-consulting.com
Joined: 1/15/2005
Posts: 166

VashJuan,

I believe Nina is refering to this module.

http://www.dnnstuff.com/Default.aspx/tabid/207

Bill
 
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