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Description of Beginning DotNetNuke® Skinning and Design

Beginning DotNetNuke Skinning and Design

The skinning engine of DotNetNuke has strengthened over the last several years, making it a highly successful way to customize the look, feel, and user experience of a web site. Featuring a Foreword by DotNetNuke creator Shaun Walker, this book takes you through the process of designing a custom skin for a DotNetNuke site and shows you how to apply web design features to that site.

Author Andrew Hay discusses the necessary steps for streamlining the interaction between client and end–user, as well as designer and developer. To that end, he has divided the book into three sections: the first section addresses basic terminology used in DotNetNuke skinning. The second section shows you how to apply the skills you′ve acquired to a specific site. The final section explores new technologies and specialty areas of DotNetNuke, ASP.NET, and web site development.

No matter your amount of experience in web site development and regardless of platform, by the end of this book you will be well versed in the installation, configuration, and customization of a DotNetNuke web site.

What you will learn from this book

• How to find, modify, and apply existing skins

• Tips for working towards a DotNetNuke solution that successfully passes an HTML validation test

• Ways to install a third party menu component

• How to add personalization, AJAX, Silverlight, and sIFR technologies to extend your site

• Ways to maximize the potential of web user controls in your site

Who this book is for
This book is for web developers who are interested in customizing the look and feel of a DotNetNuke web site.

Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.

Title Information

ISBN:

9780470109632

Pages:

432 pages

Format:

Paperback

Product Code:

244408

Publisher:

John Wiley & Sons Ltd

Published:

02/11/2007

Edition:

illustrated edition

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About Andrew Hay and Shaun Walker

Andrew Hay is a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer and the Director of Software Development at Pop Art, Inc. After graduating in 1995 with a B.S. from North Central College in Naperville, IL, he started his career at Peoples Energy in Chicago. Here, he wrote and maintained Assembly language code for an IBM OS/360 Mainframe computer. Some of these programs exceeded Andrew’s age. In the late 1990s, he was lured into the web development world with everyone else and joined The Information Management Group, Inc., also located in Chicago. As a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and winner of the Certified Technical Education Center of the Year award, this company was prime spot to witness the first release of the Microsoft .Net Framework. In late 2002, Andrew and his wife Kari moved to Portland, OR where he joined Pop Art, Inc. His current interests include standards–based web development, ASP.Net AJAX, and making the next batch of homebrew beer with his friends.