We released a new version of our StyleHelper Theme / Skin Object. Additions in the release: - On multi-language sites you can now render links in the head of the page to help Google find "this p...

Sometimes you want to test your dev work on multiple devices before putting it on a test server. Of course, you will already have tested it locally, with your browser development tools, but testing on...

New DNN PortalSettings and TabSettings Tokens I regularly use the same skin / theme for simple websites, where I add some simple colour / style variations for specific clients. These clients don&rsqu...

With DNN 9 it became more important than before to be able to address different DNN versions. In DNN8 we add padding on top (for fixed headers) to correct for the control panel when logged in, which i...

New releases of DNN DDR Menu Demo skins v 01.06.01 Added: - Alphabetical menu - XML dump example We also decided to move all Demo Skin downloads from Codeplex to our website. ...

When you base a DNN Skin (theme) on Bootstrap 3 you run into alignment issues in the Admin interface. This is caused by the Bootstrap stylesheet that resets all elements to "box-sizing:border-box...

One of the things that annoy me are DNN Extensions that don't comply with the Default DNN load order of Style Sheets. http://www.dnnsoftware.com/…/dotnetnuke-stylesheets-explain… Thi...

Last week, Sebastian Leupold asked for an example of using the DNN DDR Menu with the jQuery UI accordion Widget. I promised him to add that to our DNN demo skin and today we release it to the public. ...

Today we released a new version of the DNN DDR Menu Demo skin, version 01.04.00. This demo skin is not targeted at fully styled menu's but demonstrates the individual templates, filtering and oth...

Today we released a new version of the DNN DDR Menu Demo skin, version 01.03.00. This demo skin is not targeted at fully styled menu's but demonstrates the individual templates, filtering and oth...

I am currently testing some client skins for the upgrade to DNN 7 as both default.css and the Module action icons have changed since DNN 6. I have a z-index issues and here's what I found out and ...

Nota bene: er is ook een Nederlandstalige versie van deze blogpost. Update: the crossposted version of this post on DotNetNuke.com contains some interesting comments. Over the past few mon...

When developing a custom skin for clients, in many cases there are texts in the skin that the Content Editor should be able to edit, but only "once". We normally add an extra Pane to the sk...

This is the documentation for the of the new Style Helper skin object. This is a skin object I started in 2007, but never got to making it releasable. And now i decided I should finally fini...

We just released version 02.06.03 of our StyleHelper skin object for DotNetNuke 5.3+ on codeplex. This is final release after some beta releases following version 02.05.00. This release includes som...

New in version 02.05.00 Mobile Redirect We added a way to redirect query string parameters. They can now be copied from the orignal URL to the Redirect URL. For that I extended the RedirectTo attri...

In DotNetNuke 6.1, the remove CSS functionality of our StyleHelper Skin Object stopped working. In this blog post I'll explain why and the solution. In short, in DNN 6.1 you can remove all styles...

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 workaroun...

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 a...

Update: Raphael Müller reported a bug in v 02.02.00. It got fixed and we released v 02.02.01 New: Filenames for Css & JS Files templatable The 40Fingers DotNetNuke Style Helper skin object no...

Today I discoverd a bug in the 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 issu...

Today I released a new version of the 40Fingers Style Helper skin object for DotNetNuke.. The main enhancements are for DNN mobile skins / websites. I made detection of mobile browser much easier and ...

We found a bug in the Style Helper DotNetNuke skin object. 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...

I released a new version of the stylehelper skin object for DotNetNuke on codeplex. It contains a minor bug fix, a correction to the AddMeta attribute and one new option for the  AddBodyClass att...

A lot of questions about skinning DotNetNuke are caused by a lack of understanding on what stylesheets are being used and for what. When I created my first skin I had the same issue. In this...

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 conte...

I released a new version of the Style Helper skin object on codeplex, you can download it here: http://dnnskinextensions.codeplex.com/ Documentation on this page Version 01.05.00 fixes some minor...

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 mos...