Free DotNetNuke skin resources

Question

Does anyone have any quality resources for some free (or cheap) DotNetNuke skins? Most of the skin resources in the DotNetNuke ecosystem are to costly when you need a simple skin for a site that may not turn any revenue.

Answer 1

Try freedotnetnukeskins.com
They have skins and links to other resources as well.

FYI - simply did a Google search "free DotNetNuke skins" - a bunch of results pop up.

Answer 2

There are about ten that have been converted from open source CSS templates available on DNN Creative that are very high quality for being free. There are also some gems that can be found for free on Snowcovered, however be aware that some found there may only be free trials.

The top result on Google for "free dnn skins" takes you to dnnskins.com but most of those look rather atrocious.

It's relatively easy to convert an open source CSS template into a DotNetNuke skin as well if you have some familiarity with HTML, CSS, and DotNetNuke skinning.

Answer 3

DNN Creative CSS templates are cool but they have issues with DotNetNuke 5.

For example, there is an inline detection for superuser in "Summer Breeze" skin that results in an error. Even after removing offending code from the skin's ascx I had problems with the containers.

With DNN 4 everything works fine.

Answer 4

I own http://www.dnnskins.com and you know. These skins you say are atrocious cowgod were done by many a budding developer who thought they were designers too!! They are in fact Programmer Skins - so you're telling me your own kind here - the programmers of the world are atrocious designers?

While I agree that they aren't that tidy, I've spent months trying to keep them updated to the different versions of DNN and that's proving to be a challenge.

We've converted about 20 css based skins to dnn and made them compliant.

While it's not perfect, it is the best I could muster up, based on my time and efforts and the actual help I have to run this site. It is a bit frustrating to say the least to read about people who bag something, and then, don't even give constructive solutions.

Telling people that it's relatively easy to convert something if you have familiarity really doesn't answer the question here does it?

I wish there were more free sites for dnn skins but the reality is - it's a big job that costs thousand each year to maintain and the motivation was to try and help the dnn community but I can see that people such as your self cowgod have no idea on the work involved in building, managing and providing for the 75,000 or so hungry users.

Cheers and thanks for contributing such positive comments about my site!

Answer 5

Well said Nina - I have used your site several times and have used your skins, they work just fine. Its a whole lot better than paying $80 a skin and it is much appreciated. Thank you for all your hard work effort you put into providing us with a cost free solution to making our sites look better.

Answer 6

Why don't you try http://dotnetnukeskinsonline.blogspot.com, I have found a couple of great dnn skins for my project there.