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Friday, May 18, 2007
Creating Tableless Skins and Containers for DotNetNuke
By Ben Ahlquist @ 5:20 PM :: 2392 Views :: 2 Comments :: :: Articles, Code
Here's one of the best tutorials around for getting started creating a tableless skin for DNN. This article is courtesy of Powerhouse Data.

Note that this is a very elementary approach, but great for beginners who are unfamiliar with implementing CSS in DNN. Also great for those who want to get rid of all those messy table structures in your code!
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Tuesday, April 25, 2006
sIFR 2.0: Rich Accessible Typography for the Masses
By DNN Creative Magazine @ 2:09 AM :: 1311 Views :: 0 Comments :: Articles
Over the last several months, a small group of web developers and designers have been hard at work perfecting a method to insert rich typography into web pages without sacrificing accessibility, search engine friendliness, or markup semantics.

sIFR (or Scalable Inman Flash Replacement) is meant to replace short passages of plain browser text with text rendered in your typeface of choice, regardless of whether or not your users have that font installed on their systems. It accomplishes this by using a combination of javascript, CSS, and Flash.

Mike Davidson provides further information and there is a tutorial here which demonstrates how to incorporate sIFR with DotNetNuke skins
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Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Build for the Future: Bend, Don’t Break
By DNN Creative Magazine @ 2:06 AM :: 1487 Views :: 0 Comments :: Articles
Whatever the future holds, you can be certain about one thing: Your Web site's content will change. So what can you do now to minimize time spent monkeying with markup and CSS?

Garrett Dimon gazes into his crystal ball.
http://www.digital-web.com/articles/build_for_the_future_bend_dont_break/
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Tuesday, April 04, 2006
Unique CSS Tutorial called Live Design
By DNN Creative Magazine @ 8:44 AM :: 1815 Views :: 0 Comments :: Articles
A unique tutorial that steps a person through CSS and demonstrates the results on the actual tutorial pages.

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/livedesign/
Tuesday, April 04, 2006
Interview: Why did CSS succeed?
By DNN Creative Magazine @ 8:40 AM :: 1291 Views :: 0 Comments :: Articles
An interview by Emil Stenström with Håkon Wium Lie, the CTO of the Opera browser.

http://friendlybit.com/css/interview-why-did-css-succeed/
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!
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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