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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.

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I got a question the other day from a gentleman who is writing an application for YouTube.  His problem is that he’s gathering data from the YouTube web site and redisplaying it in his web application.  Once he has it, he then allows the user to page it and sort it.  His question was, “Is there any way of caching the data so that I don’t have to go back to the YouTube web site each time?”

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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 it, it would save us all time and make the skin all that much more valuable.

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Last Thursday, we looked at how you could change the text of the modules in DotNetNuke.  Today, we want to show you how to add that same capability to your own modules.

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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, really.

Today, you’ll be happy to know that we are going to spend all of our time talking about HTML and CSS. Something you should already feel comfortable with.

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