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5/22/2006 4:25 AM
 

Can anybody tell me how to step by step design a skin for dnn 4.0.3

 


Best regards Hossein Hashemi
 
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5/22/2006 6:22 AM
 
  1. there is a skinning guide included in the DNN documentation pack
  2. there is another guide available at http://www.polyduck.co.uk/tabid/226/Default.aspx
  3. there are videos available at www.dnncreative.com

Cheers from Germany,
Sebastian Leupold

dnnWerk - The DotNetNuke Experts   German Spoken DotNetNuke User Group

Speed up your DNN Websites with TurboDNN
 
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5/22/2006 6:52 AM
 

I've got some basic information on my site - but my challenge about creating step by steps - is that it varies depending upon the design of the layout.

Polyduck is good - it's a bit technical and dnncreative - I've not seen, but you have pay.

The success you have will depend on a few things -

  • Firstly - you're experience overall - eg.. do you know photoshop? or Dreamweaver? or CSS? or how to work around in html.
  • Do you have any idea on what you want make?
  • Do you know about DotNetNuke at all?

When I learnt step by step skinning, I used the documentation that Sebastian has mentioned. Print it out and open up the default skins that are supplied in the installation.  Start looking around at how the code works.   No one taught me at all, and I'm simply saying that going through the documentation is a great start, making some subtle changes on the skins that exist help alot.

The skinning video I have explains the steps required to set up your environment, and some of the common pitfalls.   That video is free. 

Explaining how to do something is subjective - it depends what you want to do.   But have a look at the documentation.. I've also created a CHM format with a sample skin that shows you about the code and is in an easier to read format than the pdf file - you're also welcome to look at that - but it's for windows only.

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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5/22/2006 7:12 AM
 

Nina,

sorry that I forgot to mention your tutorial. I hope, you will forgive me ;)


Cheers from Germany,
Sebastian Leupold

dnnWerk - The DotNetNuke Experts   German Spoken DotNetNuke User Group

Speed up your DNN Websites with TurboDNN
 
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5/22/2006 7:28 AM
 

Thank you very much Nina, I have already used one of your free skins on my website and I would like to congradulate you on your state of the are designs.

Xdblue is an state of the art design which I have customized a little bit on my web site www.hamfekran.ir

 please tell your openion about it.

 


Best regards Hossein Hashemi
 
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