DotNetNuke Skinning Tutorial Table of Contents

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Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: Overview of DNN Skinning
Chapter 2: Creating Your First Skin
Chapter 3: Page Layout
Chapter 4: Adding Style
Chapter 5: Configuring Skin Objects
Chapter 6: Configuring the Menu
Chapter 7: Images and Web Design
Chapter 8: Creating Containers
Chapter 9: Package and Deploy
Chapter 10: Skinning the Control Panel
Index

• Preface

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 2: Creating Your First Skin
  • Choosing an Editor
  • Installing Visual Web Developer
  • Installing the DotNetNuke Starter Kits
  • Setting Up Your Development Environment
  • Creating Your First Skin
  • What Do We Have Here?
  • Why Parse?
  • Finishing Touches
  • Summary

• Chapter 3: Page Layout
  • Page Design and Layout
  • How to Position
    • The Challenge that Lies Ahead
  • Browser Caching
  • Moving On with Our Skin
  • Summary

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 5: Configuring Skin Objects
  • What are Skin Objects
  • What is There to Do with Skin Objects
  • Creating Our XML Skin File
  • Implementing Style with CssClass
  • Skin Objects You Don't See Everyday
  • Adding Pages
  • The Breadcrumb Skin Object
  • Skin Objects' Attributes
  • Summary

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 7: Images and Web Design
  • Choosing a Graphics Editor
    • Your Choices
      • Adobe Photoshop
      • Gimp
  • Begin 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

• Chapter 8: Creating Containers
  • Creating Our First Container
  • DNN Tokens for Containers
  • Adding to the Container
    • Table Structure
    • Making Necessary XML Additions
    • More Menu Options
    • Container Token Attributes
  • Implementing More Graphics
  • Summary

• Chapter 9: Package and Deploy
  • What is Packaging?
  • Is Packaging Necessary?
  • How to Package
  • How to Deploy
  • Creating Thumbnails
  • Handling Bad Installs
  • Summary

• Chapter 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

• Index

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