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DotNetNuke Skinning Tutorial

By : Darren Neese
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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

About the Reviewers

Cuong Quoc Dang is the Marketing Creative Director at Engage Software. His responsibilities at Engage include marketing, branding, design, and of course DotNetNuke skinning.

His priority at Engage is to provide not just a high quality DotNetNuke skin, but a full package that includes strict attention to detail in user interface design and user experience. Cuong has worked with web standards for over four years.

As an essential part of the team at Engage, Cuong has been exposed to every part of the very developer-oriented DotNetNuke community. As the lead instructor for the DotNetNuke Skinning training at Engage, Cuong is working to fulfill his mission to open up the DotNetNuke community to not only for developers, but also for designers.

In addition to helping build solid, scalable websites and applications for both Engage Software and its clients, he manages the company’s two public websites, www.engagesoftware.com and www.engagemodules.com. His role also oversees the online marketing and branding initiatives.

Prior to joining Engage, Cuong worked for a logistic company in Vietnam, MinhPhuong Co., Ltd., as an Executive Marketing & Business Development. Cuong earned his Bachelor of Science in Marketing and Management from Maryville University.

Cuong Dang is currently working and living in St. Louis, MO with his wife, Vanda.

Jerry Spohn has been working with computers since the age of 11, at which he first began learning programming on a Commodore VIC 20. Times have changed, and he moved through the interesting world of IBM mainframes into PCs. After taking numerous courses on database design, programming, and object-oriented methodologies, he moved into Visual Basic and other Microsoft languages.

Jerry currently works as a Development Manager for a medium-sized software company in Pennsylvania. He also manages over 25 different websites using DotNetNuke, and is the owner of Spohn Software LLC, which does custom development across the entire Microsoft development toolset.