DotNetNuke® Websites: Problem — Design — Solution

5.4. Summary

This chapter provided an overview of how to package, install, and apply skins to your DNN website. First, you learned the advantages of packaging skin and container files together and the importance of naming conventions. Next, you learned the difference between installing skin and container files at the Admin level versus the Host level. Then, you learned how to preview and delete skins and containers after they have been installed. Finally, you learned how to apply skins and containers to a DNN website globally.

You should be quite excited about what you have learned thus far because it means our MBR Design website is starting to take shape and take on the look and feel of the intended design. As I said at the beginning of this chapter, the ability to apply a different look and feel to a DNN website by uploading a single Zip file is very powerful and gives you a great deal of control over your site's design.

Now that you have experienced first-hand the ease at which you can install and apply different skins and containers to a DNN website, you're going to continue the development of the MBR Design website by building the website hierarchy in preparation for the site content. In the next chapter, you experience DNN's flexibility when it comes to adding, editing, moving, and deleting pages.