I have purchased skins for DNN. I am more of a graphics person, so it is attractive to me to know I can easily edit a header in Photoshop that is already in the size that fits into the skin. Here is where the problem begins --- I edit the header and I save it. Then how do I get it to appear in the skin? I looked in the images folder and the images for the skin is sliced up in little pieces, and I do not even see the images for the header! And even if I did, when I slice up an image in Photoshop, it would never be in tiny puzzle pieces! How in the world would I figure that out?

Can someone help me? All I have to do is replace a header. I do not need to mess with the menu or anything else in the skin. Please tell me there is an easy way to do this!

Thanks so much for the help!

TechieOnna I am winging this without looking but you need to go to the Site Settings. In the Site Settings under the Appearance area there is a setting for Logo. That is where you want to set the dnn:logo object. dnn:logo is what the object is called in the skin.ascx file. But all you have to do is set that setting. It will ask you to select a file from some certain folder or to upload a new one.

The skin is a generic file that someone has created to be used on many sites with diferrent logos. It's designed so that a user can get a skin and install it and then just select the logo or upload it on the Site Settings page without having to do any folder specific file placing and naming or anything like that.

It's really easy. It's just not so easy to find in the documentation and stuff. I Hope I am answering the question that you are asking.

There are actually three sets of graphic images (can be more) for DNN skins.  There is the Logo, the DotNetNuke at the top of this page for example.  That goes wherever the [LOGO] is designed into the skin (HTML).  This is a file you can change from within DNN, on the Site Settings page.

There are also the many little "icon" types of elements, such as the down arrow in a menu, the RSS icon in a container and so on.  These are in the main DNN Images folder hierarchy,  Then there are the skin graphics, usually in the skin folder or subfolder.  These are the "slices" you see, both for the skin and for the containers in the containers folder for the skin.  These are assembled by the skin/container, and may flow under your other graphic images.  There may or may not be a background image in your DNN as well, the background that shows outside the skin, somtimes covered by the skin itself.  And all these graphic elements can be assembled as images in a table, CSS images/backgrounds or usually, a combination of the two.  It can be very confusing.

Some skins will provide a Photoshp file with the various layers available for you to change and export.  Most will provide just the skin images.  And some of the the skin images will usually repeat, so even having the image you can't easily assemble a reproduction of the site in Photoshop.  And yes, you often do slice a large image into tiny little pieces.  A tiny little piece that repeats 50 times is faster to transfer, since it's cached by the client, than the entire large image.

None of this helps with your specific issue though.  And we can't see what you see.  Either give us a URL to look at, or the original place you bought the skin might help, or turn your monitor to face the window.

Nope, still can't see your montior, you'll have to post a URL...

Jeff