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What if there was a product that would allow you to create your web site themes as easy as you could create a PowerPoint presentation theme?  Wouldn’t that be cool?

This past weekend I discovered just such a product.  At first, I was pretty skeptical.  I mean, I normally pay $50.00 or so per theme when I put up a DotNetNuke site and here is a product that will let me create very nice themes that I can use in BOTH my ASP.NET based sites AND my WordPress based sites for just over 3 times that price.

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Anyone familiar with CSS knows that class selectors are generally reserved for controlling how an element looks (font, color, size, etc) and id selectors are generally reserved for where the element is positioned on the screen.  The reason for this is that id selectors correspond to the id attribute of the elements on the screen and if you are using well formed html, you can only have one element on the page with any specific ID.  That is, IDs are unique.

However, ASP.NET uses that exact same feature of IDs… that they are unique.. to ensure that an ASP.NET control or an HTML control with the runat=”server” attribute set also have unique IDs, and this is where all the problems start.

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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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I recently changed my theme to one that has a dark background with light content areas and discovered that Windows Live Writer, the blog editor I use to compose my blogs, doesn’t pick up the style for the content area when it decides what to display in the editor window.

Surely, this can’t be that hard to fix.  But where does Live Writer store the template information?  And can I change the information without mangling the “Preview” display?

The first took a quick search on Google, where I found How to Manually Edit Blog Styles for Windows Live Writer.  The problem is, the article was written for Windows XP and I’m using Windows 7.  It didn’t map all that well.

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Last week I talked about a situation where the previous programmer had placed the body tag inside the ContentPlaceholder in order to allow for a different body tag on the page.

Since this is a project that I am actively involved in, I’ve been thinking about the easiest way to “fix” the code so that we can use it.

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