Trying to posting on this Site

I have personal blog (blog.sudirman.org), but it was lost because domain sudirman.org was expired (I think Hosting cost is not reasonable yet. Hosting is not too expensive know. Some Windows Hosting has increase their services and cut down the price). I have another domain :: sudirman.biz.

Hhhhmmm... I hope this free blog site will be my home :-).

Go go go blogger.com

Create (imitation) Skin in DotNetNuke == (very) easy

As every Web Applications, every object related to appearance (html, image, css, ...) in DotNetNuke is transfered to client.
It will make easy for making imitation Skin/Container from a Site Powered by DotNetNuke

How about Legality aspect ? Hhhhmmm....

For example in my site at http://www.sudirman.biz
There are some Skins in fact imitation Skin/Container from a DotNetNuke sites.

Let's look at http://home.sudirman.biz/sdr-vista-windows-s

It imitates http://packaged.salaro.com/vistawindows/Home/tabid/394/Default.aspx

What about http://www.microsoft.com/windows ?

How to ::

• visit a site that has interesting Skin/Container
• Save Page as... (Html file)
• Use Frontpage for analyzing. "Reformat HTML" feature helps a lot.

Next ::

• create 2 files (skin.xml and container.xml) according to Html file.
• Example of skin.xml and container.xml could be seen at standard Skin/Container of DotNetNuke installation

How is it too easy ?

• Hhhhmmm... all about Web Application. Every object is transfered to client (of course it is. So, how to make a fancy appearance if thas is not ?).
• But there is another factor that accelerates making imitation Skin/Container. That is Component Oriented of ASP.NET. That characteristic will help us decide, whether a HTML block is DotNetNuke Module or can be placed in skin.htm file

Challenge :

• Possible because of Save Page as... by Browser, .css file can have image. For example "background-image: url(images/m_bg.gif);" then we should take that image from the site manually. The file location should be accessed relative to the .css file. ex. /Portals/_default/Skins/SDR_s002_2/skin.css. m_bg.gif is in /Portals/_default/Skins/SDR_s002_2/images/m_bg.gif
• Creating skin.xml file. When to use RootMenuItemRightHtml in [MENU]