DotNetNuke Skinning Tutorial -- Table of Contents -- DotNetNuke Skinning Tutorial -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- Preface -- What This Book Covers -- What You Need for This Book -- Who is This Book For -- Conventions -- Reader Feedback -- Customer Support -- Downloading the Example Code for the Book -- Errata -- Questions -- 1. Overview of DNN Skinning -- What is Skinning -- What are Skins Made Of -- The Default Skins -- Where are Skins Located -- File Types in Skins -- An Overview of the Skinning Process -- What You Can Do With Skinning -- Summary -- 2. Creating Your First Skin -- Choosing an Editor -- Installing Visual Web Developer -- Installing the DotNetNuke Starter Kits -- Setting Up Your Development Environment -- Creating Your First Skin -- What Do We Have Here? -- Why Parse? -- Finishing Touches -- Summary -- 3. Page Layout -- Page Design and Layout -- How to Position -- The Challenge that Lies Ahead -- Browser Caching -- Moving On with Our Skin -- Summary -- 4. Adding Style -- A CSS Refresher -- Cascading Rules -- Seeing Style in Action -- A Portal's CSS in Site Settings -- More Style to Cascade -- Back to Our Skin -- A Spacing Problem -- Browser Compatability -- Summary -- 5. Configuring Skin Objects -- What are Skin Objects -- What is There to Do with Skin Objects -- Creating Our XML Skin File -- Implementing Style with CssClass -- Skin Objects You Don't See Everyday -- Adding Pages -- The Breadcrumb Skin Object -- Skin Objects' Attributes -- Summary -- 6. Configuring the Menu -- The New Menu -- Initial Menu Configuration -- Providers and How They Relate -- Basic Menu Attributes -- Setting the Style Attributes -- The Sub-Menu Items -- Root-Level Items -- Menu Items Style -- Hovering Style -- Other Styles -- Custom HTML Attributes -- Setting Paths in the DNNMenu -- Child Image Attributes -- Future Changes.

Summary -- 7. Images and Web Design -- Choosing a Graphics Editor -- Your Choices -- Adobe Photoshop -- Gimp -- Begin with the End in Mind -- Doing Homework -- Inspiration -- Purchasing a Design -- Monster Templates -- Design Load -- Boxed Art -- Free Designs -- Working with Templates -- Design -- Colors -- Layout -- Banner -- Background -- Bandwidth Considerations -- Creating Images -- Rounded Corners -- Gradient Bars -- Shadows and Other Effects -- More Photoshop Skills -- Putting the Images into Your Skin -- Slicing and Dicing -- Saving -- Inserting the images -- Adding the Gradient Bars -- Replacing the DNN Default Icons and Graphics -- Summary -- 8. Creating Containers -- Creating Our First Container -- DNN Tokens for Containers -- Adding to the Container -- Table Structure -- Making Necessary XML Additions -- More Menu Options -- Container Token Attributes -- Implementing More Graphics -- Summary -- 9. Package and Deploy -- What is Packaging? -- Is Packaging Necessary? -- How to Package -- How to Deploy -- Creating Thumbnails -- Handling Bad Installs -- Summary -- 10. Skinning the Control Panel -- Your Choice of Control Panels -- Control Panel-In Detail -- Change the Background Color -- Streamline the Control Panel -- Lengthen the Module Drop-Downs -- Eliminate Common Tasks -- Summary -- Index.