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This is a continuation of our series on How to build a DotNetNuke website.

This video tutorial explains the simple steps for removing the default Solpart menu within a container and replacing it with a drop down list.

The main reason we need to remove the Solpart menu is because the Solpart menu is not compatible with a XHTML Transitional Doc Type.

We need to set up DotNetNuke to use a XHTML Doc Type so that we can successfully implement features such as:

• Font-resizing
• Pure CSS layout skins (no tables)

Time Length: 4min 13secs
Download Size: 4.2MB

It’s essential to test your DotNetNuke skin in a variety of configurations to ensure it is error free and compatible with as many browsers as possible.

This tutorial provides some of the key elements and tools that you can use to test your DotNetNuke skins.

Covering:

• Images
• Font Sizes
• Web Developer Tools
• Browser Testing
• Validating Skins
• W3C's Online Tools
• Validating HTML via File Upload
• Validating CSS via File Upload
• Web Developer Tool and Conclusion

Quirks and Standards Compliance modes are the two methods that browsers can use to interpret your CSS. It’s one of the important considerations if you are implementing a pure CSS skin or using font-resizing techniques.

This tutorial covers:

• Quirks and Standards Compliance modes
• Switching modes
• DOC TYPES Document Type Definition (DTD)
• Which XHTML DTD is suitable for DotNetNuke?
• How do we set DotNetNuke to use XHTML 1.0 transitional DTD?
• Pros and Cons

The tutorial also includes a Default.aspx file for you to download so that you can quickly set your DotNetNuke installation to use XHTML 1.0 Transitional.

This tutorial explains XHTML and how to improve your skin and module coding standards by implementing the XHTML rules. It covers:

• Examples
• Why bother with XHTML compliant code? What’s it all about?
• How does this affect DotNetNuke?
• The XHTML standards also need to be adhered to by module developers. Why?

And further resources.

This tutorial is intended for people who are familiar and comfortable with CSS.

We look at some of the techniques that are available within CSS to minimise the size of our CSS stylesheets and to write more efficient code.

In particular focusing on:

CSS Shorthand
Grouping Classes
Colour Shorthand

– This is a good performance enhancement for any DotNetNuke skin.

This is part of the How did they build it …? series of interviews.

This is an email interview with Laurence Neville who has created two DotNetNuke sites: www.landmarkeducation.co.il and www.landmarkeducation.co.jp

We discuss how Laurence created these websites, in particular looking at the use of Languages within the sites. This raises some interesting issues, such as setting the text to display from right to left.