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.
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.
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 on any other installation. But aside from the fact that DotNetNuke can be installed in a subdirectory you know nothing about, what if they rename the skin or module directory? (more…)
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.
