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Beginning DotNetNuke Skinning and Design (Programmer to Programmer)
by Andrew Hay, Shaun Walker
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Wrox (2007-11-05)
ISBN: 0470109637
EAN: 9780470109632
Dewy Decimal #: 006.7
Paperback: 432 pages
SKU: 08070055
Condition: Very Good As issued
Comments: Oversize Trade Paperback. Very good plus condition with no markings. No highlights, underlines or notes in text. No creases to spine and small diagonal crease in back cover. Minor wear to cover. Tight binding and clean crisp text. Very Nice copy.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
- "Skinning" refers to an application's ability to change the look of the design by a setting in the application
- Explains how DotNetNuke skins can be created in either ASP.NET or HTML with CSS and can be developed with any Web tool that creates HTML/CSS or ASP.NET
- Combines the hot topic of using the DotNetNuke application framework with CSS and other site layout technologies to manage the user experience, look, feel, and functionality of Web sites
- Covers how to package, install, and remove a skin and offers programming tools for skins
- Discusses efficient design, when to use HTML versus CSS versus ASP.NET for a design, and browser-safe designs
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Customer Reviews
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Stick with it
Rating  (4)
Date: 2008-09-02
The first few chapters are painfully dry and appear to take you on a tour of DotNetNuke that you probably didn't want to take. Stick with it, you will find that the later parts of the book get practical and worth your time. The practical chapters are helpful, and will get you making your own skins very quickly.
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Enough content for a full book...?
Rating  (3)
Date: 2008-03-11
5 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
The book is OK, there are some useful recommendations. However, the actual information about skin creation takes just a few chapters, and a good deal of the book is about DNN, installing DNN, they even throw in something about Silverlight. Which is useful, but probably not completely in the focus of the title, in my opinion.
Perhaps it would be nice to see more information about skin objects and container objects, with more information on how they look and how they can be configured. Or even discuss the appearence and skinning possibilities of some of the core modules.
The book seems to be targetting half way between developers and designers, and in that attempt may not result as useful as it could, to neither of them (too light for a developer, too technical for a designer). It does say "Programmer to programmer" in the subtitle, so the reader should consider himself warned about it. In any case, it would be nice to see a book like this, but aimed from a designer's perspective.
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Excellent How-To
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-01-07
8 out of 10 customers found this reveiw helpful
Let's face it - you don't use DNN for its good looks. The book was a great way for me to learn all of the customization options for DNN so I could build a great looking site.
The book has very believable practical examples and was glad to see a section about Silverlight.
If you are new to DNN, buy it.
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