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• Issue 34 - 5 Free XHTML Compliant Pure CSS DotNetNuke Skins

  July 2008 Welcome to issue 34 of DNN Creative Magazine In this issue we have converted 5 open source html templates into DotNetNuke skins. These templates have been chosen due to their different design and CSS techniques used. Each of these template designs used a different approach while converting them to a DotNetNuke skin, so you will be able to view the code and learn from this variety of implementations.     Skins: Lazy Days Fluid design, re-size the browser window and view how the balloons and buildings move. View the text styling, especially the implementation of blockquotes. The DotNetNuke control panel in this skin had to be moved to the bottom of the page so it would not interfere with the design. Zenlike Fluid design centred with a background image. This skin presented an interesting challenge when converting to DotNetNuke, especially so that the background image would not interfere when administrating in DNN. The control panel in this skin is placed underneath the main header. Bitter Sweet Stylish fixed width skin. The main challenge for this skin was the layout of the panes in DotNetNuke, if a pane did not contain any content, the layout collapsed. This was fixed by changing and improving the original CSS of the XHTML template so that it is suitable for a CMS. Notice how the title backgrounds extend outside the text in the content pane. Greenery Interesting fixed width design with an image cutting the skin in half. This presented interesting challenges when implementing the right pane in DotNetNuke and preventing the pane dropping below the main content in IE6. Dark Ritual Fixed width 3 pane skin. Dark background skins always present a challenge in DotNetNuke when working in the administration area. A 1 pane skin was created with a white background in the content area for administration tasks, along with special styling for the FCK editor so that content can be viewed when adding images and links using the FCK editor. View issue 34 to download all of the videos in one zip file DNN Creative Magazine for DotNetNuke Web Designers Covering DotNetNuke module video reviews, video tutorials, mp3 interviews, resources and web design tips for working with DotNetNuke. In 34 issues we have created 306 videos! - 4 weeks ago

• Dark Ritual - Free DotNetNuke CSS Skin

  Dark Ritual is a free, tableless, fixed width, XHTML compliant website. This skin comes with 2 layouts in 2 versions: Index 3 pane skin with text header Index 3 pane skin with logo Admin 1 pane skin with text header Admin 1 pane skin with logo It also comes with 3 containers: h1 title h2 title transparent, no title container - 4 weeks ago

• Lazy Days - Free DotNetNuke CSS Skin

  Lazy Days is a free, tableless, W3C-compliant website design.This skin comes in 3 variations: index – a 2 pane fluid skin index_sub_menu - a 2 pane fluid skin with a sub menu 1 pane – a 1 pane fluid skin, suitable for the administration area in DotNetNuke It also comes with 6 containers: h1 title gradient h1 title h2 title gradient h2 title h3 title transparent no title - 4 weeks ago

• Zenlike - Free DotNetNuke CSS Skin

  Zenlike 1.0 is a free, lightweight, tableless, fluid W3C-compliant website design. This skin comes in 2 different types: index_with_logo - uses the logo from the admin menu / site settings index - uses text for the site header which you can edit in the skin files It also comes with 5 containers: h4 title box h4 title no bot line h4 title with bot line top pane h3 title transparent no title - 4 weeks ago

• Bitter Sweet - Free DotNetNuke CSS Skin

  Bitter Sweet is a free, tableless, fixed width, XHTML compliant website design. This skin comes with 2 layouts in 2 versions: Index 2 pane skin with text header Index 2 pane skin with logo Admin 1 pane skin with text header Admin 1 pane skin with logo It also comes with 3 containers: h1 content pane h2 right pane transparent, no title container - 4 weeks ago

• Greenery - Free DotNetNuke CSS Skin

  Greenery is a free, tableless, W3C-compliant website design. This skin comes with 3 variations greenery – index (main skin) greenery – index_submenu (main skin with a sub menu in the right pane) greenery – admin (single pane skin for use with admin pages) It also comes with 2 containers: h1 title transparent, no title container  - 4 weeks ago

• Issue 33 - Professional DotNetNuke Administration using SQL (Part 2)

  June 2008 Welcome to issue 33 of DNN Creative Magazine Following on from our special SQL issue last month, we are dedicating another full issue to improving the efficiency of your administration time with DotNetNuke using SQL queries. The SQL methods we show you this month are very powerful techniques which will reduce weeks of work into seconds. These tutorials are especially useful if you are re-skinning a large DotNetNuke installation. To begin with we demonstrate how to update the Page Settings of a page using SQL queries. We then demonstrate how to use SQL queries to delete a group of modules from a page, move modules between content panes and insert a copy of a module to a page. If you were to manually move, delete and insert modules when re-skinning your DotNetNuke installation it could take up to 10 minutes per page, for a 500 page website this would take 5000 minutes. Using SQL queries will allow you to apply changes across your entire site within seconds. Following this we take a look at the DotNetNuke SQL Module. This module comes free with DotNetNuke and is only available to the host user on your DotNetNuke installation. This module allows you to execute SQL queries without the need for SQL Server Express. Although we thoroughly recommend you use SQL Server Express to build and check your queries, this module is very useful if you already have a good understanding of SQL queries. And finally, we demonstrate how to work with Skins and Containers in DotNetNuke using SQL queries. In the previous tutorials we demonstrated how to change a container on a single page, in this tutorial we show you how to change the container for a copied module that is displayed on all or several pages, how to change the container of a module to a new container based on the name of the old container, and how to change the skin of a page to a new skin based on the name of the old skin. As you can see, using all of the techniques outlined in this issue will literally save you weeks of work. This issue comes complete with 11 videos. Tutorials: Administrators: How to Update the DotNetNuke Page Settings Using SQL Queries (2 videos - 19mins) Administrating modules in DotNetNuke using SQL (5 videos - 35mins) The DotNetNuke SQL Core Module (1 video - 5mins) Administrating Skins and Containers using SQL (3 videos - 24mins) View issue 33 to download all of the videos in one zip file DNN Creative Magazine for DotNetNuke Web Designers Covering DotNetNuke module video reviews, video tutorials, mp3 interviews, resources and web design tips for working with DotNetNuke. In 33 issues we have created 306 videos! - 2 months ago

• Administrating Skins and Containers using SQL - 3 Videos

  In this tutorial we demonstrate how to administer Skins and Containers in DotNetNuke through the use of SQL queries. In particular we demonstrate how to change the container of a module displayed on all or several pages, how to change the container of a module to a new container based on the name of the old container, and how to change the skin of a page to a new skin based on the name of the old skin. The videos cover: Video 1 - How to Change Module Containers Using SQL Video 2 - How to Change Module Containers Based On The Container Name Using SQL Video 3 - How to Change a Page Skin Based On The Skin Name Using SQL Total Time Length: 24mins - 2 months ago