Hi

I'm new to DotNetNuke and so far have been quite impressed by what it is and can do. However I'm trying to get my head round createing skins and am just getting more and more confused by it all!

I've been working with Version 5 which I gather is quite a new release that changes the way you have to package skins. I'm hopeing that some one out there will be able to answer the next few questions that will help ease my confusion.

1. When createing a Skin in HTML do you include the HTML, Body, Title, and Link tags, if not can you style the page background etc?
2. Do you put in a link to the CSS page in both an HTML skin and a ASCX one?
3. Am I correct in assuming that the skin package is called what I want, but needs to contain zip package called Skin, which contains a css file called for example myskin.css, an HTML file called myskin.html, and an xml file called myskin.xml.
4. Do you have to add a container file, and if so am I right that it needs to be called container.zip which is made up of mycontainer.html, mycontainer.css, and mycontainer.xml?
5. Can the skin CSS style the body of a page?
6. If I was makeing a skin using ASCX and VB do you have to compile this or just create the page, also does the VB go in a code behind page or on the ASCX page?
7. Are the Tokens used in HTML case sensative?
8. In the XML files are the elements case sensative, and is there any documentation for this?
9. In version 5 I believe there is the ability to use and XML file to basically describe the Skin for versioning etc is there any information about what this is called and which file should it be zipped into?
10. Does it have to be a table layout, or can I use Divs, and if for example I have a div with an ID="mydiv" would the css be #mydiv{background-color:white}. I've also read that you have to make certain elements visible=false, is this something you have to do when building a ASCX skin, or does it have to be done in an HTML one as well, in which case how do you do it?

Apologies for all the questions, hopefully someone will be able to answer these for me :-)

Thanks Ross

Thanks for answering those questions it certainly helped. Now I have a couple more. When adding the Xml files for skins and containers do you have to include all the settings for each Object, or was I right to assume you only need to include settings you actually want to change from being the default?

Also it took me a few attempts to get the zip files in the correct names etc and I have some skins added that don't have any skin files included. However I can not find a way to get rid of these, there is no uninstall option available in extensions?

Thanks