May 2010
Welcome to Issue 56 of DNN Creative Magazine
In this issue we show you how to use the powerful new Super Stylesheets skinning feature in DotNetNuke 5.
Super Stylesheets are ideal for both beginner and experienced skin designers, they provide skin layouts using CSS. The advantage of Super Stylesheets is that you can easily create a skin layout which works in all browsers without the need to learn complex CSS techniques.
They are also very quick to build and you can change a skin layout in a matter of minutes rather than hours. We show you how to build a skin from the very beginning using Super Stylesheets, we show you how to create various skin layouts, as well as multi-layouts. We also show you how to style the skin, how to add tokens such as the logo, menu, login links etc. and walk you through how to create a fully working skin from scratch.
Following this we continue the Open Web Studio tutorials, this month we demonstrate how to create an installable DotNetNuke PA module using OWS. This is an essential technique which allows you to package up the OWS applications that you have created and build them into an installable zip package. The zip file is then installable as a standard DotNetNuke module which means you can easily install your OWS applications on other DotNetNuke installations by simply installing them as a standard DotNetNuke module.
To finish, we have part six of the "How to Build a News Application with DotNetMushroom Rapid Application Developer (RAD)" article, where we demonstrate how to create a News Carousel using RAD, JQuery and the JCarousel plugin.
This issue comes complete with 15 videos.
Skinning:
Super Stylesheets Skinning in DotNetNuke 5 - DNN Layouts
(12 videos - 98mins)
Module Development Series:
How to Create an Installable DotNetNuke PA Module Using OWS
(3 videos - 23mins)
How to Implement a News Carousel Using DotNetMushroom RAD and JQuery
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