DotNetNuke Skins and Resources by ThinkofDesign

All DNN sites need a logo? 

There are cases that an image for the logo can be optional like in small personal sites and blogs. By default within a DotNetNuke site we have to choose between two options, either an image or no lo...

Skinning Utopia... or taking DNN skins to the next level 

I am just thinking of this so much time that I cannot keep it for myself for any longer. I love DNN skinning engine but I really think there is something important that is missing. Something that wi...

Role Based Skinning 

Similar to the "CSS Selectable Pages", we shall keep adding efficiency to our skin code. This time we have a look at ways to reveal or conceal parts of our skin to the users according to the...

Watercolors on transparent background 

That's the first collaborative work with my daughter! She's the one who put the colors on the paper. I scanned them and removed the background in photoshop. The result was interesting so I thought to ...

CSS Selectable Pages 

Consider the following scenario. We have a portal with decades or hundreds of pages. Some of those pages include content that needs special styles to look good. Inline CSS is not an option as we talk ...

CSS Specificity 

I had a quick chat with a friend who was trying to override some CSS styles so he can change the look and feel of the Telerik menu for DNN and I thought to post some useful information that many oth...

How to avoid the SPAN in the dnn:TITLE 

This is just an answer to a question posted on my twitter from @horacioj. It's about how to avoid the SPAN and get a clean heading tag in a DNN container title. Below you can see the code for a simp...

An easy way to test containers 

If you ever tried to create a set with several containers, I'm sure you have seen how time consuming can be, to apply one by one the containers you have created so you can be sure that everything look...

How to fix the DNN File Manager appearance 

Sometimes the File Manager does not fit in the content area. I got this issue in many skins that use vertical navigation. To fix it, we just have to put a fixed width using the FileManager CSS class i...

DotNetNuke CSS hierarchy 

If you ever tried to view the source code when a DotNetNuke page is loaded in the browser, you probably noticed that there are several CSS files attached in the head area. In this article we'll try to...