Creating a DNN Skin

Summary

How cool was that? You got to make your own skin and container. You found out that it was not really all that hard, and in fact consisted almost entirely of look-and-feel design-oriented code.

There was no C# code in here, and if you did not have VWD as a designer, you could have done the whole thing in a simple text editor.

DotNetNuke has enabled you to create a two-tiered presentation layer. The use of tokens inside the skin and the ability of ASP.NET to compile user control code make for a fast load of the skin for the user.

While this skin is not the prettiest or the most involved as far as images go, it does give you the foundation to be able to create your own with confidence.

The next chapter will be rather advanced. It will cover topics such as JavaScript and Ajax technologies to enable your website to be more efficient and faster.