Traditionally, the control panel is not a part of the DotNetNuke skin. It is only seen by administrators or super users after they have logged in. However, there are reasons why you might need to change the appearance of the control panel. For example, you may be a contracting consultant setting up a DNN install for business owners and want to match the control panel with the rest of your skin theme. Perhaps you'd like to eliminate buttons or links that aren't used by your site administrators, and would like to streamline things a bit. We will take a look at how to do it in this chapter.
You may or may not know that you have a choice in the control panels you use for your DotNetNuke install. Go to your Host menu to go to Host Settings. Expand Advanced Settings, then Other Settings. There is an item there called Control Panel. Notice you have two choices. Set the value to be CLASSIC, and then save the settings. The default...