Compulsory Items in Skin

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4/15/2009 8:30:32 AM
MNETUK
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Compulsory Items in Skin

Hi there,

Just doing some analysis of mojoPortal and DotNetNuke as I need to use a .NET based CMS system for a couple of clients.

Ok, so for one of the sites it is literally going to need to look like a normal static site to end users and I just want the client to be able to go to theirdomain.whatever/Admin to bring up a login screen (or something along those lines).

Looking at the required elements in layout.Master, I really don't want or need half of these:

SiteMapDataSource
ScriptManager
LoginLink
LogoutLink
contentplaceholder id=pageEditContent
SiteMenu
Panel id=divLeft
Panel id=divCenter
Panel id=divRight

There'll probably be just 3 or 4 pages that will have one text area that needs to be editable by the client and nothing more.

Is there a way round this, or should I really be looking at a different CMS solution?

Thanks.

4/16/2009 4:49:51 AM
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Re: Compulsory Items in Skin

Is anyone able to assist with this please? Need to make a fairly quick decision as whether to use mojPortal or DotNetNuke.

Thanks.

4/16/2009 5:01:38 AM
Joe Audette
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Re: Compulsory Items in Skin

Hi,

Most of that stuff in the skin you do not want to remove. How a site "looks" is all based on html and css, if you want it to look plain then make a plain skin. I would not approach the goal by thinking what can I remove from the skin other than css changes.

Yes, you can remove some stuff, but if you remove login link and logout link you lose that functionality, how will the user know where to login or how to logout. 

SiteMapDataSource is required to populate the menu and is not itself visible
ScriptManager is a needed component of MS AJAX, its not a visible element 
SiteMenu shows the links for user created pages, ie content system pages

divLeft, divRight, divCenter are all needed for the included skins and the code behind for the master page expects them and apllies css classes to them based on whether any content instances exist that are supposed to be in those sections.

If mojoPortal meets your needs use it if not don't.

Best,

Joe

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