DotNetNuke tutorials, tips and tricks

Tuesday, January 08, 2008

Create your own DotNetNuke Skin

If you are looking to create your own DotNetNuke skin there are several tutorials available which will walk you through from the very beginning through to advanced skinning techniques.

If you look at Issues 5 and 6 - Working with skins this introduces you to the basics of DotNetNuke skinning, where you are introduced to the concepts of skinning, setup preparations, and how to create a skin and container using tables.

Once you have got to grips with the basic techniques further advanced techniques are developed in Issue 7 – Developing and enhancing skins where you can learn how to create resizable text, how to test the skins, standard compliance modes.

Pure CSS skinning is then taught in Issue 9 – Advanced Content Styling Techniques and CSS and the following issues, more advanced techniques of CSS skinning are demonstrated in Issue 25 – Pure CSS SEO Layouts for DotNetNuke skins

There are thousands of free CSS XHTML templates available, if you wish to convert one of those templates into a DotNetNuke skin you can learn how to do that in
Issue 28 - CSS Skinning from a XHTML Template, OpenForce 07, Podcasts - part 2
Issue 27 - CSS Skinning from a XHTML Template, OpenForce 07, Podcasts

If you wish to learn DotNetNuke skinning we recommend that you view the issues released on DNN creative magazine in issue number order as each issue builds on the knowledge taught in the previous issues.

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