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Online DotNetNuke Skinning Reference

The quite popular online DotNetNuke skinning reference has been updated. It includes now all DNN 5 skin and container objects based on the excellent documentation by Timo Breumelhof. It is now built w... 

Dreamweaver extension for DNN skinning

Due to popular demand, I'm making the Dreamweaver extension for DotNetNuke skinning available for download again but I need to make clear that it is outdated and unsupported.I would like to update it ... 

Snowcovered is uncovered

I had some free time so I decided to redesign the homepage of Snowcovered.com. I have not changed the information that is displayed. Same data but with style and sense so either you are moving your ey... 

Hook your DotNetNuke Skins

In this article I want to share some ideas with you about making a DotNetNuke skin more CSS friendly. We will actually get the "CSS Selectable Pages" idea and extend it... quite a lot. What ... 

Nucleus 1.0 released

After several months of hard work, arguments, agreements and feature debates, the baby finally came out! Nucleus 1.0 is now among us and we are really proud of it. It was almost a year ago when I was ... 

Nucleus is coming

After several months of development, I can now say that we're really close to release the very first version of Nucleus.What is Nucleus?Nucleus is a new way to think about your skin... ehm, I mean you... 

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 logo... 

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 will... 

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... 

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 other... 

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... 

The Styles Skin Object

DotNetNuke version 04.09.00 introduced a new skin object that give us the ability to attach even more StyleSheets to our pages. The new skin object's name is "Styles" and its purpose is to a...