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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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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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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 require quite a bit more detail than we can go into today.

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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.

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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 shake my head. The person who created this skin just doesn’t get it. But so many don’t get it that it must be the documentation, right? Or does anyone read the documentation?

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