Blog - Theme Development

How to Use the Text Theme Object in DNN Platform

will@upendoventures.com (Will Strohl) — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 16:45:00 GMT

Hello there! This blog article is a follow-up to replace the original article I wrote and cross-posted way back in 2010. Wow!! I've moved it here, due to this topic coming back up in the forums recently. Here we go...

The DNN Community Has a New Look & Feel!

will@upendoventures.com (Will Strohl) — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 20:34:00 GMT

If you're coming here for the first time in a while, you may already feel like something is different. As the old saying goes, you may be feeling a bit disoriented even before beginning to read this blog post. Something is different... If you're feeling a bit like, "Who moved my cheese?" you're not alone.

Introducing nvQuickTheme 3.1.0: Elevating Your DNN Theme Development

dpoindexter@nvisionative.com (David Poindexter) — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 06:04:00 GMT

We are excited to announce the release of nvQuickTheme 3.1.0, the latest version of our open-source theme development tool designed for DNN Platform. This release introduces new features, enhancements, and fixes, making theme development faster, more efficient, and more enjoyable.

Styling Cookie Consent in DNN with Tailwind CSS

info@wolfxmachina.com (Aaron Lopez) — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 10:48:00 GMT

Tired of the ugly black and yellow Cookie Consent banner on DNN websites? Let's fix that.

April 22 SoFri: Chris Hammond - Module Packaging Customization

ryan@moorecreative.com (Moore Creative) — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 17:41:00 GMT

Lots of people use Chris Hammond's templates, but the tutorials around them are all pretty basic and intended to get you started. In this presentation, Chris will provide some more advanced customization and packaging options that you can do within extensions created by his templates.

Southern Fried DNN User Group Oct '21 - Aaron Lopez (Tailwind CSS) & Jeremy Farrance (2sxc StruXtured Content)

ryan@moorecreative.com (Moore Creative) — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 20:40:23 GMT

In this session, Aaron introduces you to a radical new way of developing User Interfaces so you too can create the most beautifully designed, the most incredibly performant, the most easily maintainable, flexible, powerful, and enjoyable-to-build websites you can using Tailwind CSS. In Jeremy's 2sxc focused session, he shows what you can really do after you've learned enough about 2sxc to build truly useful Structured Content apps.

Southern Fried DNN User Group Meeting - July '21 - David Poindexter (DNN Strategy) & Daniel Valadas ("I Like Vanilla!")

ryan@moorecreative.com (Moore Creative) — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 08:24:00 GMT

July 2021's Southern Fried User Group Meeting - David Poindexter talks about bringing overall strategic direction for the DNN Platform project and coordination between all leadership teams. Daniel Valadas presents a new minimal theme that uses vanilla CSS and JavaScript without any frameworks (like Bootstrap) or libraries

Creating DNN Themes With Tailwind CSS - Part 2

skrantzman@comcast.net (Steve Krantzman) — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 23:41:00 GMT

In Part 2 of this blog, we will take a look at how we can use a new tool called DNN_Tailwind to create DNN themes based on the Tailwind CSS framework. If you have not read Part -1, you may want to read it first, if you are not familiar with Tailwind CSS

Creating DNN Themes With Tailwind CSS - Part 1

skrantzman@comcast.net (Steve Krantzman) — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 17:59:00 GMT

In this two-part series, I will discuss creating DNN Themes utilizing the Tailwind CSS framework. It was meant to be a single blog post to introduce you to a new theme development platform I developed for the DNN Community, that utilizes the Tailwind CSS Framework. I soon discovered not many in the DNN Community know what Tailwind is.