DotNetNuke skinning tutorial : a simple, clear, step-by-step tutorial to creating DotNetNuke skins to put you in control of the look and feel of your DotNetNuke website /: a simple, clear, step-by-step tutorial to creating DotNetNuke skins to put you in control of the look and feel of your DotNetNuke website. (2008)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Darren Neese ; reviewers, Cuong Quoc Dang, Jerry Spohn.
• Other Names: Neese, Darren; Dang, Cuong Quoc; Spohn, Jerry
• Contents: DotNetNuke Skinning Tutorial; DotNetNuke Skinning Tutorial; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; Preface; What This Book Covers; What You Need for This Book; Who is This Book For; Conventions; Reader Feedback; Customer Support; Downloading the Example Code for the Book; Errata; Questions; 1. Overview of DNN Skinning; What is Skinning; What are Skins Made Of; The Default Skins; Where are Skins Located; File Types in Skins; An Overview of the Skinning Process; What You Can Do With Skinning; Summary; 2. Creating Your First Skin; Choosing an Editor; Installing Visual Web Developer. Installing the DotNetNuke Starter KitsSetting Up Your Development Environment; Creating Your First Skin; What Do We Have Here?; Why Parse?; Finishing Touches; Summary; 3. Page Layout; Page Design and Layout; How to Position; The Challenge that Lies Ahead; Browser Caching; Moving On with Our Skin; Summary; 4. Adding Style; A CSS Refresher; Cascading Rules; Seeing Style in Action; A Portal's CSS in Site Settings; More Style to Cascade; Back to Our Skin; A Spacing Problem; Browser Compatability; Summary; 5. Configuring Skin Objects; What are Skin Objects; What is There to Do with Skin Objects. Creating Our XML Skin FileImplementing Style with CssClass; Skin Objects You Don't See Everyday; Adding Pages; The Breadcrumb Skin Object; Skin Objects' Attributes; Summary; 6. Configuring the Menu; The New Menu; Initial Menu Configuration; Providers and How They Relate; Basic Menu Attributes; Setting the Style Attributes; The Sub-Menu Items; Root-Level Items; Menu Items Style; Hovering Style; Other Styles; Custom HTML Attributes; Setting Paths in the DNNMenu; Child Image Attributes; Future Changes; Summary; 7. Images and Web Design; Choosing a Graphics Editor; Your Choices; Adobe Photoshop. GimpBegin with the End in Mind; Doing Homework; Inspiration; Purchasing a Design; Monster Templates; Design Load; Boxed Art; Free Designs; Working with Templates; Design; Colors; Layout; Banner; Background; Bandwidth Considerations; Creating Images; Rounded Corners; Gradient Bars; Shadows and Other Effects; More Photoshop Skills; Putting the Images into Your Skin; Slicing and Dicing; Saving; Inserting the images; Adding the Gradient Bars; Replacing the DNN Default Icons and Graphics; Summary; 8. Creating Containers; Creating Our First Container; DNN Tokens for Containers. Adding to the ContainerTable Structure; Making Necessary XML Additions; More Menu Options; Container Token Attributes; Implementing More Graphics; Summary; 9. Package and Deploy; What is Packaging?; Is Packaging Necessary?; How to Package; How to Deploy; Creating Thumbnails; Handling Bad Installs; Summary; 10. Skinning the Control Panel; Your Choice of Control Panels; Control Panel-In Detail; Change the Background Color; Streamline the Control Panel; Lengthen the Module Drop-Downs; Eliminate Common Tasks; Summary.
• Publisher Details: Birmingham, U.K : Packt Pub
• Publication Date: 2008
• Extent: 1 online resource (143 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 006.76; Web sites -- Design; Web site development; Microsoft .NET Framework; Web sites -- Design; Web site development; Microsoft .NET; COMPUTERS -- Web -- Web Programming; Web sites -- Design; Web site development; Microsoft .NET; Microsoft .NET Framework; Web site development; Web sites -- Design; Web sites / Design; Web site development; Microsoft .NET; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781847192790; 1847192793; 1847192785; 9781847192783
• Related ISBNs: 9781847192783
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.