Day 1: DotNetNuke Skinning Essentials will give an introductory overview of how to skin your DotNetNuke sites. By discussing the basic elements to a skin and the various tools used in skinning, this class will cover a range of topics from initial design to completed package.

Day 2: We will delve into the more intermediate and advanced aspects of how to skin your DotNetNuke sites. This class will review best practices and a variety of approaches to turn a web design into a DotNetNuke skin.

The goals of this course are to analyze a design and easily assess a strategy to convert it into a DotNetNuke skin. Attendees will evaluate dynamic navigation options and different approaches to skin designs.

Upon completion of this course, attendees will have completed a custom design skin package.

Day 1:

1. Introduction to DotNetNuke Skinning
   1. What is a DotNetNuke Skin?
   2. How Skinning Works
   3. The Anatomy of a DotNetNuke Skin
   4. A First Look at a Commercial Skin
2. Creating your DotNetNuke Skin
   1. Review of Tools and Applications
   2. Best practices for Skin Folder Structures, Naming Conventions & Saving your Files
   3. Creating a Site Layout
   4. Adding Essential Skin Objects & CSS
3. Packaging & Installing your Skin
   1. The Various Ways to Package a Skin
   2. Installing your Skins
   3. Applying skin to your Pages and Portals
   4. A First Look at your New DotNetNuke Skin
4. Skin Objects
   1. Essential Skin Objects
   2. Complete your First DotNetNuke Skin
   3. Create an XML File
5. Cascading Style Sheets in DotNetNuke
   1. CSS Precedence
   2. DotNetNuke Legacy Styles
   3. Adding your Own
6. Container Creation
   1. A Preliminary Review of  DotNetNuke Containers
   2. Creating your Own
   3. Packaging & Installing your Container

Day 2:

1. A Closer Look at Site Design in DotNetNuke
   1. Creating a Layout that Works in DotNetNuke
   2. CSS Approach & DOCTYPE Declaration
   3. Implementing a Bulletproof CSS Approach
   4. Adding Skin Objects & Styles
2. HTML vs. ASCX
   1. When & How?
   2. New DotNetNuke Skin in Ten Minutes
3. Hyperlinks & Global Text in DotNetNuke 
   1. Working with Hyperlinks
   2. Standardizing Global Text
4. Introduction to DotNetNuke Navigation
   1. Navigation Overview
   2. WebControls Pros & Cons
5. Navigation Implementations
   1. SolPartMenu Implementation
   2. dnnNav Implementation
   3. TreeView Implementation
   4. Third Party Modules & Skin Objects in Navigation