Adapted to DotNetNuke By Lee Sykes
Design by Fullahead
http://fullahead.org
July 2008
Lazy Days is a free, tableless, W3C-compliant website design by Pat Heard from Fullahead, and it has been adapted to a DotNetNuke skin by Lee Sykes.
You can view the skin live here:
http://skintemplates.dnncreative.com/lazydays
This skin comes in 3 variations:
- index – a 2 pane fluid skin
- index_sub_menu - a 2 pane fluid skin with a sub menu
- 1 pane – a 1 pane fluid skin, suitable for the administration area in DotNetNuke
It also comes with 6 containers:
- h1 title gradient
- h1 title
- h2 title gradient
- h2 title
- h3 title
- transparent no title
When using these containers, the header tags are placed around the title of the module.
We have also included with the skin a demo site wizard template so that you can quickly learn how to use and apply the skin to your own DotNetNuke installation.
The skin uses the
House of Nuke CSS Menu.
Make sure you read the full installation instructions as the skin requires additional setup steps BEFORE installing the skin.
Features
Search Engine Friendly:
The skin is search engine friendly.
The menu is CSS based and completely search engine friendly. All of the links can be read and indexed by the search engines.
Fluid:
The skin uses a fluid width and text resizing, allowing the font size to change without breaking the layout of the skin.
Tested:
The skin has been fully tested against: IE7, IE6, Firefox, Opera and Safari browsers. (This tutorial provides information for
testing a skin in DotNetNuke)
Installation
It’s important that you follow these installation instructions closely as you need to pre-configure DotNetNuke BEFORE you install the skin.
Recommendation:
Make sure that you are familiar with DotNetNuke and understand how to install a standard DotNetNuke skin before attempting to install this skin. Issues 5 and 6 of the magazine covered in detail
working with DotNetNuke skins.
Install this skin in a test area first before using it on a live website, to ensure that it is compatible with your current DotNetNuke setup.
You may find layout issues arise with certain modules because they are table based, although none have been found so far.
Install:
- Download and install the HouseMenu skin object from the House of Nuke to your DotNetNuke portal.
(Further information for skinning with the House Menu is included in this tutorial: How to install and configure the House of Nuke menu for a DotNetNuke skin)
(NOTE: we used HouseMenu version 1.4)
- Install the Lazy Days skins and containers (There is a single zip file for download, unzip this file to extract the license file and skin package zip file)
- Suggested settings within the Admin menu / Site settings:
- Portal skin: lazy_days - index
- Portal container: lazy_days – h1 title gradient
- Admin skin: lazy_days – 1 pane
- Admin container: lazy_days – h1 title gradient
- XHTML Transitional 1.0 DOC TYPE is automatically configured by the skin (versions 4.4+)
- XHTML compliance
The skin is XHTML compliant, if you require DotNetNuke to also produce XHTML compliant code so that your site passes validation, follow these tutorials:
How to create an XHTML Compliant DotNetNuke 4.4
XHTML Compliant DotNetNuke 4.4 and 4.5 - part 2
Skin Useage
A site wizard template is available for download which will create a copy of
http://skintemplates.dnncreative.com/lazydays on your DotNetNuke installation.
This will allow you to view the content and see how we have applied the various styles and layouts.
To install the site template:
- Extract the two files from the site template zip file
- Upload the files to your DotNetNuke installation: Portals / _default folder
- Login to your DotNetNuke portal as administrator
- Go to Admin / Site Wizard
- Click next and follow the instructions from the site wizard
DNN Administration
When you log in as the DotNetNuke administrator, the admin control panel is displayed at the bottom of the skin, rather than the top. The host and admin menus are displayed in a list on the right side of the skin.
Feedback
I hope you find the skin useful, please feel free to leave feedback in the
forum.
License
These templates and themes are licensed under a Creative Commons 3.0 License:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
You are free:
- to Share — to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work
- to Remix — to make derivative works
Under the following conditions:
- Attribution. You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor.
- For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work.
Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder.
This means that you are free to use and modify it for any purpose, but you must include the provided link.
Further Information
If you would like to learn more about pure CSS skinning, we have created a series of video tutorials which walk you through
How to Create The ‘Simple Red Leaf’ Pure CSS Skin.
You may also be interested in
How to Convert a free XHTML template into a DotNetNuke skin.