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The folks over at BlueStack asked me to take a look at their new Form Enhancer product. Which I will provide.

The basic gist of this module is that by using jQuery and some images we can style the form elements on a page.

It’s a pretty cool concept with some promising results.

According to their sales copy…

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Several months ago, I mentioned that I found a product that will allow you to create as many themes as you want for WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, ASP.NET, or regular HTML.

I also mentioned that it did not do DotNetNuke.

Well, now it does.

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I got a question yesterday from a designer who is unfamiliar with ASP.NET asking what the difference is between ASCX mode and HTML mode when developing skins and containers for DotNetNuke.

I thought it might be useful to the community if I answered this for everyone.

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One feature you’ll see in DotNetNuke containers is the ability to collapse the container using an icon, typically in the upper right hand corner of the container. Implementing collapsible containers in DotNetNuke is relatively simple.

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When you first encounter the SolPartMenu skin object, you may become a bit overwhelmed by all of the options.  But, it doesn’t take long to realize that you can ignore most of the attributes on the list and stick to a small subset that really matter.

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