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Monday, March 13, 2006

A min-max that works for all!
By Jonathan Shroyer @ 8:31 PM :: 1298 Views :: 0 Comments :: Articles, Code

I thought I would share the code that I use to make all browsers (except Mac IE5) use the min-max property without any hacks and it validates!

Sunday, March 05, 2006

Free DotNetNuke CSS Skin - 'Simple Red Leaf'
By DNN Creative Magazine @ 8:14 AM :: 1741 Views :: 0 Comments :: Skin

The aim of this skin is to provide a clean, simple, search engine friendly and accessible skin.

The layout is created using just CSS (no tables) and makes use of CSS for styling the fonts, menu etc.

The skin takes advantage of the features that CSS layout designs provide:

Accessibility, Flexibility, Print View, Search Engine Friendly, Small File Size, Browser Compatible, etc.

Sunday, March 05, 2006

How to remove the Solpart menu from a container
By DNN Creative Magazine @ 7:42 AM :: 1293 Views :: 0 Comments :: Articles

This free 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

Sunday, March 05, 2006

How to Test a DotNetNuke Skin
By DNN Creative Magazine @ 7:40 AM :: 1351 Views :: 0 Comments :: Articles

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

Sunday, March 05, 2006

Browser Quirks, Standard Compliance modes and Doc Types
By DNN Creative Magazine @ 7:38 AM :: 1080 Views :: 0 Comments :: Articles

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.

Sunday, March 05, 2006

XHTML and best practice coding for skins and modules in DotNetNuke
By DNN Creative Magazine @ 7:36 AM :: 1462 Views :: 0 Comments :: Articles

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.

Sunday, March 05, 2006

Minimising and creating efficient CSS code in DotNetNuke
By DNN Creative Magazine @ 7:27 AM :: 1392 Views :: 0 Comments :: Articles

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.

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