Hello Timo & co

I've started to create homepages on a trial basis for the last 2 months to see if our company should use DNN as a CMS basis. Part of what I'm doing is taking existing designs made for existing homepages and trying to create a DNN skin to give the same look and feel. Since I'm new to DNN, I only know the DNN 5.x way of creating skins, and I don't have any legacy skins. The new skinning documentation is still under development, and there are some issues, that I hope you could help me with.

Some of the design includes splitting the menu and submenu and locating them in 2 different places on the homepage. In the existing design, this is hardcoded, but I was wondering if there are some way in DNN of placing the submenu in a specific place (based on the layout) rather than the auto-floating style that comes with the extropy example. So far, i've used the "Links" object to display the submenu, but that means loosing all of the styles created for the menu. Any good ideas would be very welcome :)

Another thing is that the logo is placed as a background image, and the clickable area to return to the frontpage is also hardcoded into the layout table. Is there any way to make an invisible clickable area in DNN that would give the same effect as clicking the logo image (return to frontpage) or do i need to remake the design?

Thanks
Rune

I am not sue about the dnn:nav but I usually do the split menu with the free ddrmenu from dnngarden.com

you set the top menu to display the top items and the second menu to only active childs of the first level

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