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8/5/2006 10:47 AM
 

Hi there, I dunno if im in the right place or not.

I am tryin to install some free skins that i have downloaded onto my site. I have managed to upload them but when I go to display them under my host settings.. it says there is none there. Yet the folder for them is there.

 

Any ideas on what i could be doing wrong??

 

Erica

 
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8/5/2006 11:34 AM
 
many skins are "double packed", zipping zips into zips for combining manuals, skins and container. you will need to unpack the outer zip and upload each skin and container separately.

Cheers from Germany,
Sebastian Leupold

dnnWerk - The DotNetNuke Experts   German Spoken DotNetNuke User Group

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8/5/2006 12:45 PM
 

hmm I have unzipped every inner file i could find.  I can see all the .css files and everything inthe file manager. but where are the skins.. its so weird!! I have put them in there respective skins and containers folders. But for the life of me i cannot figure out why they are not showing up.

frustrating

 
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8/7/2006 1:21 AM
 

Look for the folder /Portals/_default/Skins/DNN-Blue
and folder /Portals/_default/Containers/DNN-Blue
That's the default DNN skin with matching containers.

Now log in as Host and go to the Host, Skins menu and look for DNN-Blue on the list of skins. That's the skin from the folders above. Any skins you install should follow the same structure.

Ideally your skin will be a (skinname).zip containing two more zips, skins.zip and containers.zip.
If it does then log in as Host, go to Host, Skins menu, hover your mouse on the little downwards pointing triangle and you will see "Upload Skin" (bad workflow logic, I know). Use that to upload your (skinname).zip. Watch it upload and watch DNN 'parse' the skin.... that means it usually takes the html files in the zips and coverts them into the ascx files that are the actual skin. It also puts them in their proper folders. When this is done, you should see the new skin on the Skins drop down menu where you previously found DNN-Blue. You should always use the Preview rather than the Apply option when checking a new skin, because a bad skin might cause your site to be inaccessible.

You do not need to use the "Upload Container" menu option unless you have a zip that consists only of containers.

When using the Host, Skins page, your skins will upload to /Portals/_default/.
When using the Admin, Skins page, your skins will upload to /Portals/0/ instead.
The skins in /_default/ can be provided to all sub-portals of the DNN site, whereas the skins installed to /0/ are only available to portal "0". Portal zero is the default sub-portal and every time you add another sub-portal, a new folder is added with a higher number /1/, /2/ etc. A sub-portal is what DNN calls parent and child portals. Just think of them as extra sites running off the same backend.

If you have uploaded the skins by ftp, and they were html-based skins, then they will need to be manually 'parsed' to convert them to ascx files. When you have selected the skin in the Skins page, click 'Parse Skin Package' at the bottom of the page and watch it do its thing. Then you can Preview and Apply the skin. You must parse every time you make a modification to the html skin files directly on the server.

And don't worry if it all seems ridiculously complex and unintuitive. That's because from this side of the application, it is.

Good luck,
Rob

 
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8/7/2006 1:34 AM
 

Sometimes it is hard to explain the quirks and behaviour of how things work.  Rob has explained this quite well, and if you're still having some problems, you can download a video I have created that is designed for newcomers to understand how the process works.

It's available for registered user HERE.

But on the other side of things Rob, we're still using DNN because there simply isn't anything that compares to what can be done with skinning in any other application and DNN still has enough good points to keep us interested!

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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