1. How to Build a Basic DotNetNuke Skin with Twitter Bootstrap 3

In this tutorial we walk through step by step how to create a responsive skin for DNN using the new Twitter Bootstrap framework version 3.

Bootstrap 3 offers several powerful tools that can be a huge advantage to a DotNetNuke skin developer. Some of these include:

• Various layout options: Bootstrap 3 allows us to work with a variety of layout options such as the grid system, this grid system allows us to create pane layouts extremely quickly.
• Bootstrap 3 comes with excellent typography and button styles.
• A selection of handy javascript plugins such as popups, animated menus, and a responsive carousel.
• Bootstrap 3 has been rebuilt from the ground up and is now a mobile-first framework, meaning it is written and coded perfectly for mobile devices from the beginning. Rather than adapting a desktop HTML/CSS framework to look good on a mobile device, this time the bootstrap framework looks perfect on a mobile device and then it is adapted and extended upon for the extra screen real estate of a tablet and then a desktop screen.

This tutorial will give you a solid template for creating your Bootstrap 3 based skins. You will also learn some techniques such as file inclusion using the client resource management features available in DNN 6 and 7.

This video contains:

• Introduction;
• Downloading Bootstrap 3;
• Unzipping the Bootstrap files into the DotNetNuke file system;
• Accessing the DotNetNuke file system with Visual Studio Express for Web;
• Creating the default skin file;
• Creating a 'barebones' DotNetNuke skin;
• Introduction to Client Resource Management;
• How to implement client resource management within a skin;
• Registering the Bootstrap 3 CSS and Javascript files with client resource management;
• Introduction to the viewport meta tag;
• Implementing the viewport meta tag from within a skin;
• How to create the Bootstrap container div;