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5/25/2006 9:31 AM
 
BeeMarie

Joined: 5/20/2006
Posts: 103

Question about Admin page in custom skin. The notes I've read on skinning say that I need one main page and one admin page. How do I get an admin page? Is it automatically "in there" if I use the SOLPART menu? Can I then just put my own "skin" on it afterward to make it look like my own pages?

Question about naming my skin files. Do they have to be named skin.html, skin.xml, and skin.css, or can I name them something like myskin_skin.html, etc.? Or do I just name the zip file myskin.zip and will it automatically put that name on when I install? I'm having a hard time with this because all the examples I can find are written as ascx instead of html so there aren't many good examples for me to figure this stuff out. The DNN blue is the one I've been looking at most because it's in html, but I can't see the whole zip thing in order to work it out in my mind how to name the files I put in there (I just see the files in the Portal folder.)

Question about virtual directory. Can I make a second virtual directory to "test" my own skins locally without worrying about messing up my original DotNetNuke installation?

Should I have written three posts, one for each question?

~Bee
 
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5/27/2006 11:10 AM
 
Nina M


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

I nomally call my skins something like - PortalHome or PortalMain or PortalAdmin -

Don't call your skin skin.html - give it another name.

I've created a 20 minute video that explains about skinning - packaging, how to install, how to zip up and how to apply them, while it doesn't answer all your questions, it will help you understand the methodology using in DotNetNuke skinning - it's worth looking at.

No you can't test your skins locally in the exact format as you would in DNN. The issue here is that it's not going to show an error until it's installed in DNN is it, so while you think something might be right, it is in fact incorrect but you didn't know till you uploaded it..

You know how you set the skin for you site - you can do via Admin/Settings or Host/Settings or Admin/Skins or Host/Skins and apply them, but it's in the Admin/Settings that allows you to apply a skin to the whole site - and to the admin section only.

There is a zip file in the DNN-blue folder that you could copy to another folder, unzip and look at structure.

You have alot of questions, but honestly - spending a bit of time viewing this 20 minute video will surely answer many of your questions and thoughts.

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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5/27/2006 1:42 PM
 
BeeMarie

Joined: 5/20/2006
Posts: 103

Thank you for being so kind. I did actually watch your video. This project seems to have 5 questions more for each one I figure out! I have DNN installed on my local computer to test the skins because I am afraid of making a real mess on the server if I don't work it out in advance. Anyway, as you see from my other posts I'm making progress and your video tutorial was a big help in getting me this far. Thank you!

I love your skins and containers too, but they haven't been alot of help to me learning this because there are no .html files in there for me to look at. The ascx just got me more confused! If I didn't have something specific already that I need to do I would have just found a way to strip down an existing skin and make it work. But, once I figure out how to do this there won't be any stopping me LOL.

~Brenda
 
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