I have a problem modifying a skin I downloaded. I for example want to change the pictures in the banner to suit my organinsation better, but how do I do that?

I tried to unpack the skin and simply change the origional pictures into my own ones - called exactly the same as the original pictures. But uploading the skin, nothing shows up in the preview although the file is available in the list. I figured it should be the same result as the original skin, since Ive just changed a few pictures and then renamned them to be called the same as  the original pictures. Why doesn't it work?

And more importantly - how do I modify it to suit my purposes? It seems to be a simple solution but I just cannot find it. Please help me out!!  

That skin may have not come with a preview. When you get that gray box in the skin manager, it usually means that the skin did not have a preview file, or picture. Most skins that you buy, come with a preview jpg that the skin manager displays. It is static and doesn't change, so if you changed the skin files, the preview won't change.

Parse your skin file, and go to your home page and do a force refresh (ctrl + F5). The skin should now be visible.

If the problem is you uploaded the skin and the new pictures aren't changing, make sure your doing a hard refresh to clear your browser. If the pictures aren't displaying (missing files), check your file paths in the skin.

Hi,

I have the same problem. When I unpacked the skin and repacked it, it jsut won't work.

It uploads fine and it gets listed in the drop down list but then when I select it, it says "No Skin Files Exist In Folder".

Does anyone have any idea what is going on??

Thanks

Hi!

I did pack the files into a new zip, but going through the files it seems like DNN unpackes the original skin when uploaded as a zip, but it doesn't with mine. Ie. when I upload my repcked and zipped skin, with modified pictures, it does not unpack the zipfile. It stays zipped, which might be the problem to why it's not showing correctly in the list of containers and skins.

But why doesn't it unpack my zipped file? Am I supposed to put ALL skin and container files in just ONE zipped file? The original skin came in a zipped file, with two zipped subfiles - called skins and containers. I just did the same but that didn't unpack.

Thankful for som help... 

Thanks a lot dnncreative.

I found out what my problem was.

Before, I was putting the files in a folder and then zipped the folder, but that is not right. I had to select all the files and zip them together and not put them in a folder. 

I hope this helps you Melitta.

Thanks again :o)

Karmela

Thanks! I solved my problems, and it was a problem with the packing.

Although I just hit another one - tried to upload a logo, and first it didn't turn out good (very bad quality for some reason) and then all of a sudden it got a fit and is now showing error whatever I try to upload.

Looks like this:

An error has occurred.
DotNetNuke.Services.Exceptions.ModuleLoadException: Could not find file "C:\Inetpub\DotNetNuke\Portals\0\book.gif". ---> System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not find file "C:\Inetpub\DotNetNuke\Portals\0\book.gif". File name: "C:\Inetpub\DotNetNuke\Portals\0\book.gif" at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String str) at System.IO.File.GetAttributes(String path) at DotNetNuke.Common.Globals.GetFileList(Int32 PortalId, String strExtensions, Boolean NoneSpecified, String Folder, Boolean includeHidden) at DotNetNuke.UI.UserControls.UrlControl.GetFileList(String strExtensions, Boolean NoneSpecified, String Folder) at DotNetNuke.UI.UserControls.UrlControl.ShowControls() at DotNetNuke.UI.UserControls.UrlControl.Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e) --- End of inner exception stack trace ---

Stange thing is that all the files actually are in that very folder. I dont understand why it says it cannot find it. The list of logos in the admin - site settings, is empty although the logos are in there. 

Can anyone explain?

Melitta -

Is your main skin file html or ascx file? Do you have the image paths built in to the HTML, or is it in a css file?

If your skin is built with an ascx, you may need to add  <%= SkinPath%> to the img src. Also, I find the best way to handle imagesis to put the properties in the css file:

<td id="mypic1">

#mypic1{
 background-image: url(filepath);
}