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I’m looking at creating my own dnn skin. All the articles that I can find talk alot about using photoshop to create an image and slicing and blah, blah, blah. I want to know if I can create a new skin by only modifying an existing ascx file and creating a custom stylesheet. I don’t see how photoshop gets involved unless you just have to have rounded corners and everything using gradients.
Yes. You can certainly create DNN skins without getting a graphic editing application involved. Apparently someone needs to write some better DNN skinning articles. The DNN skinning architecture is pretty much unlimited, you can do anything you can do with ASP.NET (except for Master Pages but between skins and containers you get the same capabilities).
Joe Brinkman (one of DNN’s founders) started (but never finished) a nice series on creating DNN skins with nary a mention of Dreamweaver. It’s a good place to get started though he does start with an HTML skin rather than going straight to ASCX(my preference).
http://www.theaccidentalgeek.com/post/2010/06/28/DotNetNuke-Skinning-101-%28Part-1%29.aspx