Beginning DotNetNuke Skinning and Design Covers How to Package, Install and Remove a Skin and Offers Programming Tools for Skins

November 20, 2007; 07:05 AM
DUBLIN, Ireland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c74803) has announced the addition of “Beginning DotNetNuke Skinning and Design” to their offering.

Skinning, themes and the art of managing the user experience, look and feel and functionality of the websites has in itself become area requiring its own expertise. Whatever your role in implementing the DotNetNuke framework, within your range of services provided you will face a learning curve, all based on the fact the technology is ground breaking and yet to have best practices, terminologies and methodologies set in a format that comes from qualified people and history of use. Within that context, Beginning DotNetNuke Skinning and Design provides expert best-practices based on the author's methods for creating award winning DotNetNuke websites for her clients and will help you streamline the interaction between client/end user and designers/developers.

    * "Skinning" refers to an application's ability to change the look of the design by a setting in the application.
    * Explains how DotNetNuke skins can be created in either ASP.NET or HTML with CSS and can be developed with any Web tool that creates HTML/CSS or ASP.NET.
    * Combines the hot topic of using the DotNetNuke application framework with CSS and other site layout technologies to manage the user experience, look, feel, and functionality of Web sites.
    * Covers how to package, install, and remove a skin and offers programming tools for skins.
    * Discusses efficient design, when to use HTML versus CSS versus ASP.NET for a design, and browser-safe designs.

Some of the topics covered include:

    * Finding and applying existing skins
    * Modifying an existing skin
    * Creating new skins from HTML and creating ASCX
    * Layout such as columns in skins
    * Navigation, menus, and UI in skins
    * Headers and footers
    * Content Design
    * Styling with CSS
    * Scalable Inman Flash Replacement (sIFR) in DotNetNuke
    * Table-free DNN design to separate content and presentation
    * Skinning modules and table-free module design
    * Web standards and compliance

About the author:

Andrew Hay (Portland, Oregon) is Director of Software Development at a Microsoft Certified Partner, Pop Art. Andrew works primarily in web-based development engagements, usually in the form of ASP.NET, SQL Server and its ancillary technologies, to serve Pop Arts clients. He started his career writing in assembly language for an energy company in Chicago, Illinois. While supporting code that exceeded his age by nearly ten years, he helped the company adopt PC and web based application strategies. After several years with the energy firm, he moved into a consulting role with a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner also located in Chicago. Andrew worked primarily for a large financial services client architecting and developing a global financial web application with teams based in Europe and the U.S. Andrew is also on the Board of Directors for Saturday Academy and volunteers his time for the non-profits Apprenticeship in Science and Engineering program for high school students. Saturday Academy engages motivated young people in hands-on, in-depth learning and problem solving by connecting them with community experts as instructors and mentors. Shaun Walker is the DotNetNuke creator and serves as the consulting editor on this book along with writing the foreword. He is a cult hero amongst the DotNetNuke community for this successful open source application on the Microsoft platform.

Contents:
Introduction.
Getting Acquainted.
Introducing DotNetNuke Skinning.
Installing DotNetNuke.
Installing Skin Packages.
Exploring Skins.
Creating Custom Skins.
The Neighbourhood Association Website.
Skinning the Neighbourhood Association Website.
Designing the Navigation.
Leveraging Web User Controls.
Exploring Silverlight.
Using Cascading Style Sheets.
Web Standards and Compliance.
Targeting Modules with CSS.
Exploring AJAX in DotNetNuke.
Using sIFR with DotNetNuke.
Exercises and Solutions.
Glossary of Terms and Acronyms.
Index.

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c74803