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DotNetNuke Skinning Tutorial

By : Darren Neese
Book Image

DotNetNuke Skinning Tutorial

By: Darren Neese

Overview of this book

<p>DotNetNuke is an open-source web application framework written in VB.NET for the ASP.NET framework. The application's content management system is extensible and customizable through the use of skins and modules, and it can be used to create, deploy, and manage intranet, extranet, and websites.<br /><br />DotNetNuke has a skinning architecture, which provides a clear separation between design and content, enabling a web designer to develop skins without requiring any specialist knowledge of development in ASP.NET; only knowledge of HTML and an understanding of how to prepare and package the skins themselves are required.<br /><br />If you want to create great-looking skins for your DotNetNuke websites, this book is for you. If you're new to DotNetNuke skinning, this book is the ideal introduction. It will give you clear, concise and practical guidance to take you from the basics of DotNetNuke skinning right through to developing the skills to make you a DotNetNuke skinner to be reckoned with!<br /><br />This book gives you step-by-step instructions to the fundamentals of skinning so that you will be in control of the look and feel of your DotNetNuke site, and dreaming of new ideas for creating more interactive user interfaces.</p>
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
DotNetNuke Skinning Tutorial
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

Chapter 10. Skinning the Control Panel

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.

Your Choice of Control Panels

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...