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10/04/2005 1:07 PM
I am working on a site that needs to have several sections. For example: 1.Section for Customers 2.Section for vendors 3.Section for employees Each section has a different color theme so that the user knows which area of the site he or she is currently in. We have a skin that has been duplicated in 3 different color themes to accomplish this. I had originally thought that I would try to find a way for dnn to switch the skins depending on the link ot possibly using subdomains such as customers.mysite.com and vendors.mysite.com an so on.. however the sites share some information and it looks like a maintanance nightmare to do that. Is anyone aware of a way to have dnn switch skins etc.. depending on which page of the site the user is viewing? Or other possible suggestions? your help is greately apprecitated! Thanks, Jeff

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10/04/2005 4:48 PM
You can assign a skin at a page level (if there are not too many pages). Would that work?

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10/04/2005 4:55 PM
hmmm... I hadn't thought of that. Initially there won't be a ton of pages, but as the site grows it could become a headache to do that. I also started thinking about the fact that the logo on each area changes just a bit to match the color scheme and I have to make the logo part of the skin rather than just using the single logo tag for that.

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10/05/2005 3:14 AM
Posted By jabull on 4/10/2005 4:55:09 PM hmmm... I hadn't thought of that. Initially there won't be a ton of pages, but as the site grows it could become a headache to do that. I also started thinking about the fact that the logo on each area changes just a bit to match the color scheme and I have to make the logo part of the skin rather than just using the single logo tag for that. Yep, it does get a headache as the site gets bigger. You could probably create a skin object to do the logo which selects one based on role, but it really doesn't solve your layout problem. I had heard of a mod that allows the user to choose the skin, maybe you can mod that to work for your scenario? I can't remember though what mod it was.. anyone else?

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10/05/2005 7:27 AM
Thanks Scott, I appreciate your help... I had thought I remembered a mod like that on snowcovered or somewhere but had no luck finding it now. If anyone else recalls where i might find it please let me know. Thanks

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10/05/2005 11:43 AM
This lets the user select the skin... http://demo.dotnetnukeskins.com/

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