tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32442424.post5420839711020067842..comments2010-10-04T09:22:10.716+01:00Chris Canthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11367082039820244178noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32442424.post-30198511015693999272010-07-01T01:35:10.676+01:002010-07-01T01:35:10.676+01:00&gt;author is a noun and not a verb. &gt;One does not &#39;author&#39; something, &gt;one *is* an author <br /><br />WRONG:Author is a noun and a verb.<br /><br />Hate word fascists, but love themwhen they are wrongAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32442424.post-1161012092311947832010-01-20T09:48:37.214Z2010-01-20T09:48:37.214ZCartoon about how to get comments in blogs:<br />http://www.shof.msrcsites.co.uk/net_a.jpgChris Canthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11367082039820244178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32442424.post-12333007749949705962009-12-08T17:45:38.319Z2009-12-08T17:45:38.319ZI don&#39;t know of a tool to convert HTML and CSS into a template - this might be hard to do automatically, though not necessarily too hard by hand if you know what to replace with the appropriate DNN tokens. You then have to package it up by zipping as described in the article.<br />ChrisChris Canthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11367082039820244178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32442424.post-4772598330638844272009-12-08T16:57:21.132Z2009-12-08T16:57:21.132ZHi Chris<br /><br />Do you know any tool that can convert my Web HTML pages ans CSS to DNN skins?<br /><br />Artisteer does not seem to be able to i,port directly from HTML.<br /><br />THANKSAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32442424.post-50317689264458587642009-08-13T15:49:17.510+01:002009-08-13T15:49:17.510+01:00Author is most certainly a verb.<br /><br />http://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/author[verb]Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32442424.post-1659683225572619992009-04-03T10:44:00.000+01:002009-04-03T10:44:00.000+01:00Mark<BR/><BR/>Assuming that you are inserting into the root of your VS project, the new skin and container will go in the existing /Portals/0/Skins and /Portals/0/Containers/ directories, in sub-directories called SkinName. If these folders already exist, then you might get a warning, though I didn't just now. You should delete both these folders beforehand. And rename them afterwards to the name of your skin/container.<BR/><BR/>Hope that helps, ChrisChris Canthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11367082039820244178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32442424.post-33912387534522070472009-04-03T05:48:00.000+01:002009-04-03T05:48:00.000+01:00Chris,<BR/>Would you let me know how to change the default skin destination file location?<BR/><BR/>When I follow your "[File][New][File]" instruction, I receive the warning, "A file or folder with name 'Container.css' already exists."<BR/><BR/>Thanks much for the prescient info.<BR/><BR/>MarkMark Abrahamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00940934754906803851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32442424.post-75142164594229889712009-03-27T22:03:00.000Z2009-03-27T22:03:00.000ZWe need to revoke someone's grammar police badge:<BR/><BR/>http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/author<BR/><BR/>Author is both noun and verb, but thanks for trying.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32442424.post-76319016755491368682009-03-06T12:51:00.000Z2009-03-06T12:51:00.000ZThanks for your fabulous help - your answers and explanations are clear, concise and make a lot of sense. It appears that I'll have to upgrade to DNN V4.9.2 to have IE render the MinExt skin properly - UGH! Anyway, thanks a million!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32442424.post-78047190991538951962009-03-06T11:47:00.000Z2009-03-06T11:47:00.000Z<A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML" REL="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML</A><BR/>This is what wikipedia says about XML comments:<BR/><BR/>&quot;XML comments start with &lt;!-- and end with --&gt;. Two consecutive dashes (--) may not appear anywhere in the text of the comment.&quot;Chris Canthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11367082039820244178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32442424.post-7462867994190045322009-03-06T08:24:00.000Z2009-03-06T08:24:00.000ZThe upload/parse operations probably simply list all the tokens that they are looking for - whether or not they are used in your skin.Chris Canthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11367082039820244178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32442424.post-75128390883842549762009-03-05T23:17:00.000Z2009-03-05T23:17:00.000ZThanks for your reply. I've learned a few things - thanks for the important step that I had missed and do not see in any other documentation than yours - remove the ascx file from my newly-built zip file. I think the error regarding the [USER] token had to do with packaging the original ascx file, and not parsing it. Anyway, that cleaned up some points. Your logic also seems reasonable as to why there is no [LOGO] token. I've left a message in the Skinning forum to try to determine why there are differences between IE and FF with just the default MinExt skin. My final issue has to do with the upload and parse procedures - even after I comment-out some tokens from both the html and xml files, they still appear during the upload and the parse operations. It doesn't cause problems - yet - it's just interesting that they appear at all. I'm using the standard html comment syntax in xml, should I use something else to comment-out an xml statement? Thanks for your wonderful help!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32442424.post-3060004642882795002009-03-05T22:51:00.000Z2009-03-05T22:51:00.000Zskin.xml configures how various elements are displayed. I'm not a skin expert, but I don't think that there are any options for [LOGO] so it doesn't need to be in skin.xml. The order of items in XML files don't usually matter. I'd usually leave the skin.xml alone initially - it's probably an HTML/CSS issue that causes the problem in IE.<BR/><BR/>Did you mean that you had changed the ascx to match the html? Don't forget that you can use "Parse Skin Package" in [Admin][Skins] to recreate the ascx.Chris Canthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11367082039820244178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32442424.post-52752497502223072782009-03-05T18:18:00.000Z2009-03-05T18:18:00.000ZHi. I'm new to skinning and found your article very informative. I'm using DNN V4.09, and I've successfully created a new skin by modifying the default skin, MinimumExtrophy. I've removed some of the DNN tokens that I don't want, and I've made no changes to the skin.xml file --- which I know is wrong. I understand that the html and xml files must "match", but I don't know in what way. Obviously, the tokens should match, however, I've noticed that there is no [LOGO] token in the default xml file. Also, do the tokens in the xml file have to appear in the same order as in the html file? Finally, although I haven't changed the xml file to match the html, I have been able to see all my changes, although the site doesn't render properly in IE - it's fine in FF... which is what led me to learn about the xml file. Sorry for such basic questions, but I appreciate your help tremendously.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32442424.post-48160553709659011962009-02-20T19:13:00.000Z2009-02-20T19:13:00.000ZFair enough - I'll change it to create.Chris Canthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11367082039820244178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32442424.post-34814575105291074172009-02-20T12:51:00.000Z2009-02-20T12:51:00.000Zauthor is a noun and not a verb. One does not 'author' something, one *is* an authorAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com