Welcome to DotNetNuke Skin Template Tutorial Preview and Download Page

My-ASP's Tutorial Skin/template package for DotNetNuke 2.1.2 and 3.0.8. This skin is a cross browser compliant DotNetNuke specific template.

This DotNetNuke Tutorial skin is written for beginners who should know how tables work. Reading this tutorial and changing the skin files gives you a good idea how to make a simple skin for your site. The Tutorial - skin is the one you see here. The included Word document is only 2 pages long. Most of the instructions for changing the skin are commented in the skin itself. This is a quick hands on make your own skin.ascx example. Download the zipped tutorialskinpkg. Unzip it to get the word document and zipped tutorial skin. File updated Jan 23/05.

How do I make this skin work in version 3.1?
Try the parsing links in Admin – Skins and see if that works. If not then do a search and replace in skin.ascx
Search for:
spacer.gif
Replace with:
<%=Skinpath%>spacer.gif

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To change the date format open skin.ascx and in the same line as CURRENTDATE add:

dateformat=“MM/dd/yy“ to get 09/19/04.
dateformat=“MMM/dd/yy“ to get Sep/19/04.
dateformat=“MMMM/dd/yy“ to get September/19/04.
dateformat=“MMMM/dd/yyyy“ to get September/19/2004.
dateformat=“ddd,MMM,dd,yyyy“ to get Sun,Sep,19,2004.
dateformat=“"MMMM dd, yyyy" to get September 19, 2004.

The scrollbar colors show on Explorer 5.5 +, Netscape and other browsers will see the default grey. To see a good example you can play with click here.

Skins used by DNN must be ASP.Net controls (i.e. ascx files). However, you can design skins in HTML. When you upload them using the File Manager, DNN converts them into ASCX controls (i.e. all usable skins are always ASCX controls). About the only difference is if you can make them ASCX files from the start you can use FTP when tweaking/troubleshooting to upload new versions instead of using the browser-based DNN upload.

Portals may use their own skins or host skins. Skins can be Host skins/containers or Portal skins/containers. Host skins are stored in /Portals/_default/Skins.
Portal skins are stored in portal-specific folders (using each portal's unique ID):
/Portals/0/Skins
/Portals/1/Skins
/Portals/100/Skins etc.

Click here for more information on DotNetNuke Skin Functions.