Adammer releases Greytness, a free DNN skin
Greytness, a DNN skin that is clean, simple, sleek, and FREE! (as in beer)
ArchitectX was such a huge success, we’ve been busy with custom skin development since its release in January 2008. Greytness is our way of giving back to the DNN community which has been a big part of our success.
About Greytness
As its name suggests, Greytness is a single color grey skin (more colors soon). It includes 18 containers which can be arranged with great flexibility in its 21 panes.
Greytness is written in valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional, valid CSS level 3 code, and does not contain any tables.
Our commitment to Web Standards
Adammer is a W3C Contributing Supporter.
We hope Greytness will help developers create more DNN skins that comply with W3C, WAI, and Rehabilitation Act Section 508 standards.
Greytness is a clean, simple, and sleek skin that we encourage developers to use as a reference for techniques to create more standards compliant and accessible DNN skins.
Download at the Greytness Demo site
Creative Commons
Greytness by Adammer LLC is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Permissions beyond the scope of this license is available at http://www.adammer.com/legal/eula/.
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Wow — Greytness is a nice and simple DNN skin with a professional look that’s lacking from most other “free” skin offers. Truth be told, I like this one even better than Arch-X. Thanks for the contribution to the DNN community, Adammer!
Thanks for the kind words mamlin. We hope to release additional features and colors soon. Feel free to let us know what you’d like to see in future releases.
Blogged a review here:
http://www.eguanasolutions.com/DNN_Blog/EntryID/44.aspx
The main “wish-list” item for me would be additional container types: “enclosed” containers to help offset content and “background-color” containers to allow use of light-colored fonts.
Good documentation, BTW — clean and simple.
Map of the worldwide Greytness downloads 24 hours after release. There’s no question DotNetNuke is global. http://bit.ly/Ns2VM
I am in the process of upgrading a website and Greytness (greyt kname) is just what I was looking for. I especially like the banner pane. I was able to put a rotating flash module into the pane to jazz the site up. I was wondering about one thing. Why did you put the login and logout at the bottom of the page? Even when it is at the top I have had people have trouble finding the login.
Hi Mike,
I’m happy Greytness was just what you were looking for. We’ve had a lot of positive feedback since its release.
It’s great you were able to put the banner panes to good use. We use them all the time to create unique User Interfaces from a single page layout.
Great question!
On Greytness, we put the login/logout and account links at the bottom of the page to reduce their visibility and free up space for other UI elements. On portals with large numbers of active users, I usually recommend adding the “Account Login” module visible only by “Unauthenticated Users” near the top of strategic pages (such as the home page). This creates a very visible Login element for the end user but once they’re logged in, it disappears and relinquishes valuable page real-estate.
You can create very dynamic and fluid UIs using DNN module permissions. Give it a shot. And thanks again for your feedback and kind words.
After researching and testing many DotNetNuke Skins and if you have a low budget I recommend the following free skin
Greytness by Adammer – http://skinsbyadammer.com/Default.aspx
I posted an entry on my blog to promote this skin at:
http://www.vessea.com/Blog/tabid/58/EntryId/27/Greytness-by-Adammer-Free-W3C-compliant-DotNetNuke-Skin.aspx
Greytness is Greyt, I installed it a week ago and my site never looked better. I am still in the procress of tweaking it. there are so many ways you can modify and customize it.
visit http://AutOrphan.com to see Greytness modified
Greytness Global Download map
http://skinsbyadammer.com/Greytness.aspx#DownloadMap
I’m new to DNN and installed your great skin. However I’m having an issue with the search. When I click the search icon the page posts back but doesn’t do anything. Do youhave any tips you can provide? Thanks again for the skin!
@ BBuff ,
It may be that DNN has yet to index your content. But more likely, you have inadvertently deleted the page that contains the “Search Results” module.
1) Create a new page titled “Search Results” if it doesn’t already exist.
2) Add a “Search Results” module to the page.
3) Make sure the page is visible to all users.
That should be all you need to get the DNN Search operational.
Thanks Adam! You’re a genius. The page already existed from the default install but didn’t contain a Search Results module. I really appreciate the help.
Thank you .I try many times.But still can’t make the menu Switch language.Thank you still
Hi Miao, Did you install the Apollo PageLocalization module?
@ Adam Humphrey
No, 50$ is almost my monthly living expenses.Maybe I can change the menu control to default and make it look like as the menu of Greytness2.But I consider it not a good habit to alter Other People’s Works…Maybe I can make a new skin by myself based on the default skin.By the way ,I can learn something about dnn.
Thank you for replying me
Please feel free to make any changes or modifications to the Greytness skin code. One of the main reasons we released this skin under the Creative Commons license was to give people a starting point for skin development. Also, a couple people who downloaded the skin have successfully modified it to re-enabled the default DNN menu as well.
You may want to check out http://www.dnndoneright.com/ Drop-in upgrade for SolPart and DNNMenu. Although it looks as though it also requires third-party localization modules.
Please let me know if you need anything else. Always glad to help!
Thank you very much.You are a very very very good person:)
Thank you for providing a free skin/container ‘Greatness’. I am a new DNN user and was looking for a skin to modify and to understand. Your contribution helps a lot for people like me who is trying to get their feet wet in skinning.