need help on UI customization

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8/12/2009 5:03:57 AM
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need help on UI customization

Hi all, I am analysing this product customization to recommend my client. The UI customization is unclear for me to proceed. 1) What is the purpose master pages under App_MasterPages? 2) Why App_DesignTimeStyle contains Master pages and css files, where it is used? 3) And in Data\Skins we have many folders for skins 4) In Data\Sites\[id]\Skins also I am having huge number of folders If I want to create new UI for my Mojo in which folder I have to replace the files or which Master pages and css I have to change? even though I delete the Data\Skins folders in here, when I open the solution again it recreates the folder structure.... What is the skin name for this http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/d752747f2f.jpg please help me to proceed further... Thank you
8/12/2009 6:47:47 AM
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Re: need help on UI customization

Hi,

App_MasterPages and App_DesignTimeStyle is stuff that tries to give some reasonable view when working in the Visual Studio designer but it does not match the site skin because that is determined at runtime. You should not touch those folders and files in the course of making a custom skin.

You should read all the skinning documentation to learn how to create skins and the reasons for the different folders under /Data

Hope it helps,

Joe 

8/13/2009 11:06:04 AM
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3) And in Data\Skins we have many folders for skins ? What are these files? and if I am correct this should work right? what I did was I opened all the stylelayout.css files one by one and changed width to 300px and checked the it is not reflecting for any file! #wrapwebsite { margin: 15px auto; width: 960px; }
8/13/2009 11:20:14 AM
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Re: need help on UI customization

adding to thats,,,, inside this \Data\Skins folder you have nearly 35 folders and can remove all those and add only the new custom UI design folder? Your skinning documentation doesn't have any usefull information :(
8/13/2009 11:31:07 AM
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Re: need help on UI customization

These things are explained in the documentation. I'm sorry if you can't find what you are looking for or cannot comprehend it. You should read all of the documentation under Creating Skins very carefully.

8/14/2009 1:18:53 PM
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Re: need help on UI customization

Hi jezzy.kiss,

like Joe says, documentation of Mojo skinning is pretty clear. I'm doing it right now following the guide lines here. Also this post is very useful.

Hope it helps

8/22/2009 9:59:41 AM
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Re: need help on UI customization

Hi jezzy.kiss,

I think what you are doing wrong is working with the skins from the /Data/skins folder. That is just the library of skins. mojo supports hosting multiple sites so when a site is created (including the first site) the skins are copied from the library to a site specific skin folder. This is in the documentation as Joe said.

This is from the documentation:

"The skin folder is stored in the /Data/sites/(SiteID)/skins folder. This keeps skins separate for each site in a multi site installation. When new sites are created the default set of skins from

/Data/skins

is copied to

/Data/Sites/[new site id]/skins Any custom skins added later only need to be added to the site specific skin folder unless you want to share them with other sites."

So you need to look in the /Data/Sites/1/skins/ folder.

Steve

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