Vasilis 
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| 02/08/2006 11:29 AM |
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Because I get many reports from some of you who cannot install the packed extension, I thought to post the folder with the extension's files (that's why I call it unpacked) so you can package the extension on your own.
To package the extension you have to follow these steps:
1) Download the zip file and extract its contents on your machine. You will get a folder with the extension's files.
2) Open your extension manager and go to File > Package Extension...
3) Browse the extension's folder and find the .mxi file. Click OK.
4) The Extension Manager will ask you where to save the packed extension. Save it in the same folder or somewhere you 'll remember.
5) Normally after that the Extension Manager will tell you that "The extension package has successfully been created."
6) Now you can click "Install Extension..." and install the extension you have just created.
I hope and I wish this way the extension will work for all of you.
If the packed version works on your machine, you don't have to download also this one. |
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Stevie.P
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| 02/09/2006 10:48 AM |
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Hi Vasilis,
I've been looking for ages for help with DNN skinning particularly getting a table-less design together. I found your site and its solved all my problems...thank you! Any plans to include the 'House of Nuke' menu object into your Dreamweaver extension..?
Thanks...keep up the good work
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Vasilis
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| 02/09/2006 11:32 AM |
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Hi Stevie,
I am happy you found this site useful!
Very good idea!!! HouseMenu skin object will be included with the next release which will come very soon!
Thanks a lot! |
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zevonjunior
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| 02/14/2006 09:46 PM |
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Excellent! After gagging on the 0.10 version I downloaded the 0.20 UNPACKAGED DW extension - it worked like a charm. Hopefully it will help me get over my newbie skinning problems.
Thank you so much!
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desk2web
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| 03/20/2006 06:48 PM |
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I am very new to DNN but am very familiar with Dreamweaver - many thanks for creating this package I now have it installed and amraring to go!
Would I be correct in thinking "all" I need to do is now produce say a PhotoShop image, slice it up and insert the various objects/tokens where I need them?
Thanks again. |
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Vasilis
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| 03/20/2006 07:03 PM |
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Hi,
You are absolutely right! That's the way to go!
Of course you 'll need some CSS too. I am writing a tutorial about DNN and CSS... will be available very soon!
Also I am about to publish another tool which I hope to be helpful for all skinners.
More about that in the next few hours!
Cheers,
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vinnyocc
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| 03/31/2006 04:44 PM |
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OKay, I download the new DreaWeaver extension . I have been doing CSS and html design and understand how it all work. I am having trouble making sense on how to use the extension. For example, what am I doing when I insert [Banner] in my html? How does this help me build skins?
Sorry for all the questions, I am a newbie.
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Vasilis
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| 03/31/2006 05:00 PM |
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Hi Vince and welcome!
A DotNetNuke skin is nothing else but an HTML page (if you exclude the html, head, body tags) with some DNN tags that produce dynamic content.
I created this extension to have easy access to the DNN tags (skin objects) and their attributes without the need to read the reference in the skinning.pdf! All I have to do is to click a button, write some values for the attributes and the DNN tag is ready in my html page.
When you put the [Banner] skin object, you create an dynamic area in your page where from the admin area of DotNetNuke you 'll be able to manage your portal's vendors.
Last week I published another handy tool to help everyone who wants to understand better the DNN skin objects... The DotNetNuke Skin Objects and Container Objects Dynamic Reference... Give it a try!
I hope you 'll find the resources of this site useful.
Don't hesitate to post any questions you may have on the way for your first skin!
Good luck!
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vinnyocc
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| 04/03/2006 12:32 PM |
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Okay so I am beginning to understand a few things. I went to follow your "Create your first DotNetNuke skin with Dreamweaver" and I became a little confused about the set up within the folder structure.
"These are the first steps:
1) Browse your DotNetNukeRootFolder\portals\0\skins\(Where is this file on my local drive? And what if I am working in my portal?)
If you don't have a skins folder, it's because you have never installed a skin before to your portal. You can create this folder by hand or get a free skin from my downloads and intall it to your portal... I think that's a good idea so you can have some examples to refer to during your first skins development. After you have installed a skin, you will find the skins folder. (If you install some containers, there you will find a containers folder too.)
2) Create your skin's root folder
In DotNetNukeRootFolder\portals\0\skins\ folder, DotNetNuke puts all the skins you install to your portal. To create a new skin, you have go in there and create by hand a new folder... this folder's name is your skin's name and in there you will put all the files needed for your skin.
3) Create your first skin files (What is a .ascx file? Do I create that in DreamWeaver?)
A skin to work properly needs at least one main file... that's skin.ascx (can be anything.ascx but better use the same names as I do for now).When I start creating a new skin, I always create two new files... those are skin.ascx and skin.css. The skin.ascx will include your page's stracture when in skin.css you will put your page's styles.
ALSO, I got almost all through step 5 except...
5.5) Save your file. Open DotNetNuke with your browser. Log in and apply the skin to your portal from your Site Settings. (The name of the skin is the name of your skin's root folder. See step 2.)
I think that this error has something to do with the first few steps.
Thanks in advance for the help, sorry for the ignorance.
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Vasilis
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| 04/03/2006 08:30 PM |
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Hi Vince,
I know that this quick tutorial has many holes and I am really very sorry about that.
Do you have DotNetNuke installed on your machine?
I assume that you don't so the only way to understand the steps and find the folders I talk about, is to access your portal's files on the server via FTP.
DotNetNuke skinning involves much of testing so if you don't have DotNetNuke installed locally you 'll have to upload every small change via FTP to your server to see the results in your browser.
Kind Regards,
Vasilis
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ech01
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| 04/26/2006 04:17 PM |
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The images don't show up in DW. There are just a bunch of ? marks
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albertramsbottom
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| 12/18/2006 09:53 AM |
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| when a try to install the extension it throws an error saying that i need Dreamweaver MX or above.
I am using the latest dreamweaver 8
Any ideas
Cheers |
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