Custom Dotnetnuke (DNN) Skin Design

DNN skinning and WEB design blog

I've just finished adding the new "skins" page to the site. This is going to be updated, along with the template skins posts to show all the available template packs from rhoek.com.

Template skins collection

This template skin pack contains 1 Portal Skin, 1 Admin Skin and 3 Stylised containers.

As always this pack included a template .psd file for customising colours and layout.

Buy this template DNN skin from snowcovered

E-Comm Template DNN skin

View a live sample of this skin

The search functionality of DNN has recently gone a good upgrade, which has seen it include the ability to search both the local site and the entire web.

Being a skin designer this has posed slight constraints on my previous designs as it requires additional space for two new form controls. This additional space has pushed some of my previous designs to breaking point and I've therefore been on the hunt for a method of turning this functionality off, rather than simply hiding it with css.

Below is the required code, to be placed in you skin XML file, for turning the display of these options off, as default the search will still cover the local site so there's no need to worry about having them not show as long as you don't need the ability for web search.

<Object>
 <Token>[SEARCH]</Token>
  <Settings>
   <Setting>
    <Name>showWeb</Name>
    <Value>False</Value>
   </Setting>
   <Setting>
  ...

For a while now I've been reading the blog and listening to the podcast of Paul Boag and co-host Marcus Lillington at www.boagworld.com. It's getting a mention in the resources section of my blog because it is an amazing place to find non-geek information about managing and designing websites.

Boagworld - Web design podcast and blog

I came across it through the practical web design magazine which has the podcast attached to its free CD, and found it instantly appealing.

Definitely worth checking out.

This template DNN container pack comes in 18 different colours, with custom tab like icons for the print, syndicate and visibility controls.

We've also supplied a .psd file for container customisation.

Buy this DNN container pack at snowcovered

Buy this container pack from snowcovered

View a live sample of these containers

Rhoek.com is a design blog focusing on web design and dotnetnuke skin design.

I have been designing and developing websites and custom/template dotnetnuke skins since 2003 and have experience in X/HTML, CSS, javascript, DNN skinning, XML, XSLT, accessibility, usability, email design and building, and Search Engine Optimisation.

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13 May 2008