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Blue Stack Form Enhancer Review

Dave — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:25:17 +0000

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 [...]

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Infinite DotNetNuke Skin Sets For One Low Price

Dave — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:22:00 +0000

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. I think it was shortly after I wrote the original review that [...]

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DotNetNuke Skins – ASCX vs HTML mode

Dave — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:08:20 +0000

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. ASCX files are user controls (an ASP.NET thing). With [...]

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DotNetNuke Skinning – Collapsible Containers

Dave — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:07:10 +0000

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. The control that causes a panel to expand or collapse is the Visibility control. To make this available to your [...]

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DotNetNuke Skinning – SolPartMenu

Dave — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:01:55 +0000

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. The SolPartMenu object has two basic modes. CSS mode [...]

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DotNetNuke Skinning – Dealing with Images

Dave — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:24:58 +0000

There is one final basic topic we need to address prior to moving on to the details of working with Skin Objects, and that is the topic of including images in our skins and containers. You might think that because you know where the images are on your installation, you’ll know where the images are [...]

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DotNetNuke – Avoiding Container Collision

Dave — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:22:51 +0000

So many of the skin and container sets I buy are written in such a way that if I were to mix and match my containers, graphic disaster would strike my page. Fortunately, the problem is rather easily fixed. But if more designers thought about this potential problem and applied the simple fix to avoid [...]

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DotNetNuke Skinning – Standard CSS Classes

Dave — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:27:11 +0000

By now, you’ve gotten the idea that creating a set of skins and containers for DotNetNuke is a little bit more work than just creating some HTML, images, and a CSS file. Hopefully, you also realize that it isn’t really that much more work than what you are used to, just a few more tags, [...]

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DotNetNuke Skinning – Containers

Dave — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:51:03 +0000

Today we move our focus to DotNetNuke containers. Not because we are done with skins, but because we can’t go any further in our discussion of skinning until we cover containers. As with skins, we need to be able to specify where the module should be located that the container will hold. We do this [...]

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DotNetNuke Skins – Skin Objects

Dave — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:15:11 +0000

There are a number of DotNetNuke controls, which they call objects, that are available to the skin designer. This adds functionality to the page such as a link to login/logout, date/time, username, and others. Today’s post will list each of the objects that are available and what they do. Many are simple to implement, others [...]

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DotNetNuke Skins – Hello, World

Dave — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:05:31 +0000

Now that we understand how the ASCX files and CSS files relate to each other, it’s time to create our first skin file. Today we are going to deal primarily with the issues of layout. If you are using one of the Skins that come with DotNetNuke you will see five content areas, called “Panes,” [...]

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DotNetNuke Skins – Handling CSS Files

Dave — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:36:19 +0000

One of the most common mistakes I see when I buy skins for DotNetNuke is that the skin creator places a link tag for the CSS file inside the ASCX file for that skin. I’ve also seen skin creators use the skin.css for both the skin and the container. I look at this and just [...]

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DotNetNuke Skinning – Getting Set Up

Dave — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 08:33:39 +0000

While it IS possible to create DotNetNuke skins and containers using a standard HTML editor and HTML files, I find that it is much easier to use Visual Studio and ASCX files instead. The reason for this is that I can modify and run my DotNetNuke installation and see exactly what the end result is [...]

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DotNetNuke – Skinning

Dave — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:10:29 +0000

Today I’m going to start a separate series on Skinning DotNetNuke. Don’t worry, I’m still planning to continue the series on creating modules. Later on, I may start a series on something else. But I have a need to explain skinning for a client, so you all get to benefit from the effort. Similar But [...]

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