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5/25/2012 4:55 PM
 
fred.george.jackson


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I am using the default DarkKnight skin that comes with DNN but I have been trying to make a couple of changes. One of them is to the footer.

 The code in skin.css that refers to the footer is below:

#Footer{min-height:45px;width:100%;background: url(images/Footer-BG.jpg) repeat-x 0 0;}
    #Footer .Content{width:960px;margin:auto;padding:30px 0 0 0;}
    #Footer .Content .Panes{padding:0 0 45px 0;}
    #Footer #dnn_Footer_LeftPane{width:470px;float:left;margin:0 20px 0 0;}
    #Footer #dnn_Footer_RightPane{width:470px;float:left;}
    #Footer #dnn_Footer_BottomPane{clear:both;}
    #Footer #Copyright{clear:both;height:50px;width:960px;border-top:4px solid #333333;line-height:46px;}
    #Footer .Normal{color:#e5e5e5;}
    #Footer span.SkinObject{font-weight:normal;color:#666666;}
    #Footer a.SkinObject{float:right;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline;}
    #Footer a.SkinObject:link, #Footer a.SkinObject:active, #Footer a.SkinObject:visited, #Footer a.SkinObject:hover{color:#e5e5e5;padding:0 0 0 15px;}

My only problem is that the background color of the footer is black and I am trying to make it either white or a light gray. However, I want to keep the two links -- the Privacy statement and the Terms of Use links -- while changing the colour. If i create a new plain white .jpg file and call it white.jpg and then change the first line above to:

#Footer{min-height:45px;width:100%;background: url(images/white.jpg) repeat-x 0 0;}

the links are removed from the footer. How can I change the colour while keeping the links there?

 
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5/26/2012 2:00 AM
 
Richard English


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Joined: 6/16/2008
Posts: 167

Hi Fred,

Are you sure the links aren't there and just hidden? Maybe when you change the background color to white the link color in the footer (which is very similar) are just obscured. You are on the right track with replacing the first line in the css you posted. You can remove the image and just call the background color white.

#Footer{min-height:45px;width:100%; background:#ffffff;}

The #ffffff added above is the color white. The last line you pasted controls the color of the links.

#Footer a.SkinObject:link, #Footer a.SkinObject:active, #Footer a.SkinObject:visited, #Footer a.SkinObject:hover{color:#e5e5e5;padding:0 0 0 15px;}

 Change the #e5e5e5 to another more contrasting color. Try #000000 which is black to test it.

#Footer a.SkinObject:link, #Footer a.SkinObject:active, #Footer a.SkinObject:visited, #Footer a.SkinObject:hover{color:#000000; padding:0 0 0 15px;}

Google HEX colors and you'll get a bunch of links to color charts and tools.

Here is one to start. http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_colors.asp

Hope that helps.

Rich
 
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5/26/2012 8:45 PM
 
fred.george.jackson


Joined: 4/30/2012
Posts: 193
Rich, thank you so much, this was enormously helpful! You were right about being unable to see the links properly because of the similarities of the colours.
 
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5/26/2012 9:09 PM
 
fred.george.jackson


Joined: 4/30/2012
Posts: 193
I was hoping you could help me out with one last small issue related to the skin.css file. I would like to change the location of my menu. Right now, the menu bars are slightly too low and I would like to raise them a little bit higher on the page. Also, I would like to change the background colour which is black and the page name writing which is a light greyish/white colour. I don't need a specific colour, I would just like to play around with different ones to see which looks best.

I have been trying to play around with the following code but I haven't been having much success. I know the menu comes from this code, I'm just not really sure what changes to make.

#Breadcrumb{height:30px;width:960px;line-height:30px;background:url(images/Breadcrumb-BG.jpg) no-repeat 0 0;margin:0 0 2em 0;font-size:11px;}
#Breadcrumb span{display:inline-block;height:30px;float:left;font-weight:bold;color:#666;font-size:11px;}
#Breadcrumb .Intro{text-transform:uppercase;padding:0 15px 0 13px;margin:0 15px 0 0;font-size:10px;background:url(images/Breadcrumb-FirstSep.jpg) no-repeat right 0;}
#Breadcrumb .SkinObject{display:inline-block;color:#944e4e;height:30px;float:left;}
#Breadcrumb .SkinObject:hover{text-decoration:underline;}
#Breadcrumb span.Sep{width:14px;background:url(images/Breadcrumb-Sep.jpg) no-repeat 0 0;margin:0 15px;}
 
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5/27/2012 5:38 AM
 
Richard Howells


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www.dynamisys.co.uk
Joined: 3/26/2006
Posts: 2001
I don't think that is the menu. That is the Breadcrumb trail (the path down the hierarchy of the site to where you currently are).

The placing if the menu is determined by the skin - It's the token that begins somthing like "dnn:MENU MenuStyle..."

For the colors of the menu items you have a LOT of CSS classes to choose from. The menu is flexible (lots of classes) but that means you have to choose carefully.

Do a view source on the page. Look at the rendered classes for the menu, decide what to override - put it in Portal.css.

Best wishes,
- Richard
Agile Development Consultant, Practitioner, and Trainer
www.dynamisys.co.uk
 
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