I am about to start building a custom skin for our site and have seen some really good skins built out there and wondered what tools are being used to create some of these skins to upload and use in DotNetNuke?

Thanks in advance for your help.

AFAIR there is a dreamveawer template and Yannick recently presented his skin xml editor. besides, there is a container creator from Nokiko and CSS Skins from Snapsis.

The way I make skins is just design in photoshop and then slice the images and from there hand code in either notepad or visual studio depending on which machine i work at and whats installed

@leupold: thanks for the notice of my container generator been quite successful but ther is a new version coming that is template driven so you can define your own templates and are not fixed to the table layout it has now ( all images are sliced and diced the same but you can define your own html tags and skinobejct to go in there

But making skins isnt that hard, just stick to the tools you know. Also dont make skins based on what you think dnn can do. Just create your skin and then make it into a html layout and fromthere look at ways to make it into a dnn skin and overcome the technical hurdles, add new skinobjects, some css tricks etc.

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