Hi

I've installed the House of Nuke menu and installed it into a Vortex demo skin, uploaded to my local server OK but after I edited the xml file so the menu would have the orientation of horizontal and to be dynamic it still displays as vertical and static. I double checked the xml file and uploaded again but same result. I must be missing something here, can you point me in the right direction please.

Thanks
Pete

Make sure that the skin gets "parsed". This will happen if you "upload" using the skin installation procedure. If you've just uploaded a changed file to your site, you'll need to do this manually from the Skin page.

Thanks Joe, I followed Lee's tutorials to the letter, zipped up the local files i.e. htm, css and xml files and copied to the skin/install folder and used the following URL to upload the files: http://localhost/DNN_494_Test/Insta...lResources
I login, gone into my skin demo page and reloaded the skin but no luck, can't get the menu to change, I've stuffed something up!!
Any ideas?

Thanks
Pete

I was wondering if I have downloaded the correct file from the House of Nuke?
In the House of Nuke web site there are several files for download, I made sure I downloaded the skin object file but there has been updates since Lee did those tutorials, could I trouble you to confirm which file I should be using please? This would at least remove one possible problem.

Thanks in advance
Pete

Well, I'd be looking at: HouseMenu2 (beta 2).

I'd be looking there because it's the only file that's new in the last two years.
 

Sorry to bother you again Joe, but I still can't get this House of Nuke menu to change to a horz (set at H) and dynamic (set at D) layout.
It must be picking up the xml file as I changed the border settings for the logo token to a very obvious 8,  when I upload the files that change can now be seen but the menu orientation is still vertical and static.
Any suggestions?

Thanks
Pete

If you are simply uploading files, you may need to "Parse" the skin after doing the upload.

Which files are you changing?  And how are you uploading?

Hi Joe,
I zip the htm, css and xml files and copy the zip file to my local server dnn_494_Test\install\skin folder. Then I go to my browser and insert the following URL: http://localhost/DNN_494_Test/Insta...Resources, It loads OK with no errors.
I then login as host, go to my skin demo page and re-install the skin. Is there another procedure I need to do to "Parse" the skin? As I mentioned earlier, I followed Lee's tutorials to the letter.
Thanks
Pete

if you are installing the skin, you shouldn't have to do anything else.  Make sure, though, that the .ascx file in the skin directory does correspond to the changes.  It's possible that you've got a directory reference wrong.

hello,

Apologies for the delayed response, the Orientation control in the house menu does not actually make that much difference. - the difference is in the CSS code, you'll need to look at the skins where we have created a horizontal CSS menus using the house menu and a vertical menu and compare the differences, this is all you need to do, the settings in the XML file will not make any change for the Orientation.

Regarding which version to use, for the vortex skin you want to use version 1.3, for any of the XHTML conversions you will want to use v1.4.

v2 is a different menu.

Have a look at this tutorial for a horizontal menu:
How to create a pure CSS skin
this is in version 1.3


Thanks,

Thanks very much for the reply and info Lee, I'll get to work on that advise.

Pete

A quick question if I may Lee, as I'm new to DNN I've been trying to learn using tables rather than entire CSS skins, I would like to move over to complete CSS skins when I become more confidant. Would you see any problem inserting a div (for the Housemenu token) into a table row or column?
Would appreciate your opinion, thanks.

Pete

Hello,

No it should be fine to insert a div into a table and you may find you can do this to achieve the background effects you require, thanks,