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Hello,

I'm looking into the possibility of using Engage: Publish for our organization's news management needs. However, I'm not clear as to the level of customization that is available for displaying articles, article lists, etc. We have pretty strict styling requirements for our site and need a fairly flexible system in terms of layout. Are all customizations managed through CSS or are there some options such as modifiying the layout of articles in an ascx file?

I've found references to various pieces of customization in the forums but nothing comprehensive. We are looking to purchase within a couple of weeks.

Thanks!
-sirchuy

Sirchuy,

To provide a customer opinion, I want to point out that you do have to poke into various places to implement styling/customizations, which can be frustrating to figure out.  Some classes, etc. are not documented and some elements are inconsistently implemented; sometimes you are overriding a CSS class; other times it's an ID, etc.  I usually Firefox and a developer addon to figure out which element I need to focus on.

Some customizations I have implemented via portal.css, some via the Language editor, and still others by modifying the .ascx (which I don't like to do since it mostly will get overwritten by a new release). 

To be fair to Chris and Engage, it's no worse than most other DNN-based products.  I'm looking forward to this being standardized/templated in the future releases.