Skins and Templates

As some of you might have noticed, removing style sheets with the StyleHelper Skin Object does not work anymore since DotNetNuke 6.1.
(al other functionality still works just fine)
This blog post is about my considerations on this issue.

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As you can read in my previous blog, there's an issue with the DotNetNuke core print skin object in DotNetNuke 6.1. I'm sure this will be solved in a future version, but there is a workaro...

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Because of changes to the action menu in DNN 6, the Print and RSS feed icons don't work anymore. At first I didn't notice this as they do work if the user is logged in, but for an ...

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New release of the 40Fingers DotNetNuke Stylehelper skin object.
Version 02.02.00

Highlights:

1. Improved Redirect Handling
2. Get Backlink to the PAge that casued the redirect
3. Add anything to the Head of the DotNetNuke page
4. Remove Existing DotNetNuke MetaTags
5. Links to Style sheets and Javascript files are now templatable

You can download the new version here: http://dnnskinextensions.codeplex.com/releases/view/73344

Full documentation here: http://www.40fingers.net/WeblogsNews/Weblogs/tabid/58/ID/23/language/en-US/Style-Helper-Skin-Object-Documentation.aspx

 

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Today I discoverd a bug in the DotNetNuke Style Helper Skin Object 02.00.00.
The "IfMobil" attribute, used to detect if a bowser is a mobile browser or not, did not always detect the browser correctly.

This issue has been fixed in this new release: 02.00.01

If you use the mobile detection capabilities, please update your installation with this new release.

You can download the new version of this DotNetNuke  skin object here: http://dnnskinextensions.codeplex.com/releases/view/66281

Full documentation here: http://www.40fingers.net/WeblogsNews/Weblogs/tabid/58/ID/23/language/en-US/Style-Helper-Skin-Object-Documentation.aspx

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Today I released a new version of the 40Fingers DotNetNuke style helper skin object.

The main enhancements are for mobile DotNetNuke skins / websites.
I made detection of mobile browser much easier and you can now redirect the user  to another DotNetNuke page or even website.
 
Also added:
- Set the doctype of the DNN skin.
- Support to add custom attributes to the DNN HTML element as needed for Open Graph protocol.

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We found a bug in the stylehelper skin object for DotNetNuke.
In certain conditions you could get an "Object reference not set to an instance of an object error" error, if you use the BodyClass attribute...

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After a few minor internally used and tested versions, I released a new version of our DotNetNuke Stylehelper Skin Object on codeplex.

The new version is 01.08.03

It contains

1. A bug fix
2. A correction to the AddMetas attribute
3. A New template option for the AddBodyClass attribute. (you can add a class for the role a user is a member of)

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If your skin has a dark color or an image as the background, there are situations were this background is visible in the editor too.
This can make it very difficult if not impossible to edit the content of your site.
As this question keeps comming up in the DNN Forums and is an issue in the new RAD Editor too, here's how to solve these issues for your skin.

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New release of the 40 Fingers Style Helper skin object (V01.05.00)

The Style  Helper skin object allows you to load  css and javascript files in the head of the page from you DotNetNuke skin, directly or conditional, based on all kind of properties.

New Feature:

You can now inject a CSS class to the page Body tag. This allows styling of specific page in the same skin.

Bug Fixes:

- Javascript files are is now Injected after jQuery (the was not the case before)
- You can now use spaces after the comma in you RemoveCssFile attribute.

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There are a lot of posts in the DotNetNuke forums about cross-browser issues in a DotNetNuke skin.
The problem is mostly that the skin does not render the same in Internet Explorer and Firefox.
As most of these issues are quite easy to prevent / solve, here's how to prevent most of them.

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This is the documentation for the of the new Style Helper skin object on Codeplex.
This is a skin object I started in 2007, but never got to making it releasable.
And now i decided I should finally finish it..
(I will add a some extra functionality later this year)

I would appreciate it if you would test the skin object and give feedback / report issues (on Codeplex).

Download: stylehelper.codeplex.com/

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