I am going through the Building a website tutorial and can't seem to find the Vortex Music Template which has the Gradient and Copyright images for use in the skinning. Did I miss a step in the tutorial where this was explained? Or can anyone tell me where i can get these images?

Thanks in advance.

mark
mark@freedom22.org

You can download the "Stage One" version here.

The "Stage Two" skin is the "Skin Tutorial Files" link on this page.

There are other tutorial files available with most of the 13 tutorials.  The tutorials are listed here, and you need to click each one to find the files.

Hi Joe,

 

Thanks for your reply. I have looked at those links and I can't seem to find the files for the Vortex Music Template. For example, in part 6, there just seem to be download links for the videos, but not for the template files. Where are you referring to where i can download the image files from the templates?

 

Thanks

mark

 

At the bottom of the page you will see the links for the various parts of the tutorial.  If you click on the link for Part 6, as one example, you will find the link at the bottom of the next page.  Poke around and you'll find others.

on the part 6 page, amongst the video links is a link named:

Vortex Music Skin Stage One

These are the skin files.

Also, if you go to the main issue pages, such as Issue no 5 and 6
and scroll to the bottom you can download all of the video and skin files in one zip file for that issue.

Lee, thanks for your reply. I did find the files.

I am going through your tutorail, and in video7 of part 6 in Building a website in DotNetNuke, you refer to and modify the skin.css file that has classes
like .MainMenu_MenuContainer. However when I make those changes in the css, i don't see any change in the localhost verson of dnn.
I can't find those class references in the vortex ... .htm file. So I can see why they aren't showing up as changes. Am I missing something here because I can't find any source files the have the class .MainMenuContainer? In fact, in the css file i downloaded from your site, the css file has classes such as
.mainmenu_MenuContainer, which doesn't correspond to the ones in your tutorial, much less not being found in the .htm files. Please help!

Thanks in advance.

Mark

Lee or Joe,

I meant that the skin.css file I downloaded has classes like .main_dnnmenu_item td which I can't find any reference to in the skin.html files. It seems like I am missing something that has to do with containers.

mark

Hello,

Those classes refer to the menu, and therefore will not be specified in your skin.htm file as all you enter in the skin.htm file is the token for the menu, the classes are created by the SolPartMenu / NavMenu itself.

One area to check for the classes of the menu is the skin.xml file - dependant on which menu you use, a lot of configuration options are specified for the menu in the skin.xml file, although some are auto defined, such as with the SolPartMenu so you may find that some classes are not specified in the skin.xml file even though they exist in the menu.

Hope that makes it clearer,

Thanks,

Hi Lee,
Thanks for getting back to me. I understand now what you are saying, but I am still confused about why the changes i make to the skin.css file from you tutorial do not seem to show up when i copy the skin.css file back into the local dnn site i have created. Other modifications from the previous parts of the tutorials sup just fine. Also the version I downloaded (of skin.css) seems to have class entires like .mail_dnnmenu_item td, which are different than the ones you modify in your tutorial. So when I tried to make the changes you list in your tutoral (video 7) I can't find the same class names in skin.css that you are talking about. Is this why I don't see the changes when I reload? Where should I be making the changes that you list in your tuturial?

Thanks in advance.

Mark
freedom22

Make sure you are copying the skin.css file into the correct location for whether or not you are using a host or portal skin.

Are you sure you are looking at the correct code version for the tutorial? - I have just downloaded the code from part 6 and can not see any reference to .mail_dnnmenu_item td in the skin.css file. - or anything referencing a td.

Hi Lee,

Again thanks for getting back to me. You are absolutely right. I just redownloaded the files from part6 and the skin.css file there does NOT refer to .main_dnnmenu_container (or any other classes with dnn in them). However, the skin.css file from the DNN-Blue skin does have those (.mail_dnnmenu_container) classes in it and I must have used that skin.css file in the tutorial instead of the one you have for download in part 6. Sorry for all the questions. Thanks. Mark

Lee,

(P.S.) I am using DNN version 4.08.04 so maybe that version of the DNN-Blue skin.css file has different classes than the one supplied with earlier versions of DNN, such as the one you are using in the tutorial.
mark

Yes that is correct, the DNN-Blue skin slightly changed, as they now use the Nav menu rather than Solpart, so I would suggest you use the code from the tutorial rather than the 4.8.4 dnn-blue skin as it will enable you to configure a skin with Solpart rather than Nav menu, thanks,

ps. there is no reason not to use nav menu in the future, but for the purpose of that tutorial I would follow it through with the same settings which are for the Solpart.

Hi Lee,

Thanks for the responses. I really enjoy your tutorials.
Mark