DotNetNuke - Avoiding Container Collision

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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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

DotNetNuke Modules - Internationalization (part 2)

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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Monday, June 30th, 2008

DotNetNuke Skinning - Standard CSS Classes

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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Thursday, June 26th, 2008

DotNetNuke - Internationalization

One of the core features of DotNetNuke is that all of the text that shows up on a page either comes out of the database or out of resource files.  Anything that comes out of the resource files can be localized for country and region.

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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

DotNetNuke Skinning - Containers

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.

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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008