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Adammer releases Greytness, a free DNN skin

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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.

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Download at the Greytness Demo site

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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/.

  1. August 18th, 2011 at 13:17 | #1

    Greytness 2.5 and DNN 6 are a great combo. Nice job on the fixes.

  2. Hany Darwish
    March 16th, 2011 at 10:30 | #2

    GREYTNESS is a great skin and it looks like there is more to share about the menu template feature could you share this information with us as i think that all of us are interested to learn more about the menu customization feature using the template property :)

    thanks very much for the professional free skin very clean and pro code :)

  3. Dewey
    November 21st, 2010 at 16:12 | #3

    @Adam Humphrey
    That fixed it. Thanks, Adam.

  4. Dewey
    November 21st, 2010 at 15:39 | #4

    My NavMenu is not showing anymore. When I view the HTML source there is no rendering of the menu. I’m not sure what caused it to not show, but there has been no DNN upgrade to cause this. What else can I look for?

    • November 21st, 2010 at 15:51 | #5

      @ Dewey, The most likely cause is the removal of the skins HTML comment:
      Adammer menu technology licensed through http://www.snapsis.com

      Due our licensing terms this HTML comment needs to be part of the *.ascx file in order to enable the NavMenu. Let me know if you’re still having problems with the NavMenu after adding the HTML comment back to the skin or if this fix worked for you.

  5. November 17th, 2010 at 05:04 | #6

    @ Adam Humphrey
    Correction: You were correct; right on the money. My db had some bonkers stuff in it. A couple of negative numbers for order and ‘gaps’ in levels (like a level 1 with its sub items as level 4). One had a 5 digit number in one field…

    Thanks so much.

  6. November 16th, 2010 at 18:56 | #7

    @ Adam Humphrey
    I believe you are correct. I have a fresh/virgin 5.5.1 site and installed Greytness and cannot duplicate the problem there.

    Import/Export Portal is new to me. Will try.

  7. November 16th, 2010 at 16:19 | #8

    Also, HOST and ADMIN menu items/dropdowns do not appear at all on the menu bar. I believe this to be the same problem as the ‘only one root item’ above, since they appear as ‘root’ items on the ‘Pages’ hierarchy.

    • November 16th, 2010 at 17:04 | #9

      @Bob, It sounds like something went awry with your upgrade. I have seen one other person who had an issues similar to this after an upgrade. It may be that the DNN database didn’t get upgraded appropriately for menu hierarchy. And since our skins use a custom SEO menu module, it’s important that the database have the correct data with regards to menu item hierarchy.

      Perhaps you can try a fresh DNN install and Use the Export/Import Portal Template feature to get this issue resolved.

      FYI: (Included to help you understand our menu structure but not a fix for the issues your having)
      The Greytness skin is specifically designed to support 0-3 menu levels. 0 = top level, 1 = sub page(s), 2 = sub sub page(s), 3 = sub sub sub page(s)

      Example:
      Home (level 0)
      …Page 1 (level 1)
      ……Page 2 (level 2)
      ………Page 3 (level 3)
      …………Page 4 (level 4)

      The menu will display levels 0-3 but not level 4. If you want to enable support for additional levels you will need to change the appropriate .ascx skin file. Look for the tag and change the Level property to something other than Level=”0-3″. You will also need to adjust the CSS to support the additional levels as well.

      You should also notice the ExcludeTabs=”Admin,Host” in the tag. Greytness removed the Admin and Host menu items because they are no longer needed due to DNN 5.x displaying these links at the top of the page. They were just taking up space.

      If you’re still having issues please use our contact form to open a support ticket.

  8. November 16th, 2010 at 16:11 | #10

    @ Adam Humphrey

    Sure can. I can send you a link so you can see it on my screen if need be, as well.

    Pages could not go beyond two tiers; the third tier disappeared from the menus.

    For simplicity call the main menu bar the ‘root’ hierarchy. There could only be one item [Home, for instance] in the ‘root’ level. I had to make peers of that one item sub-pages on the settings to have them appear as peers on the menu bar. Changes to ‘none specified’ using Settings would not be saved.

    Using the ‘Pages’ function/module under Admin role got things so screwed up I had to punt totally; I had to load another skin to ‘recover’. This one you might have to see to believe.

    There is a chance it is my site as I just went through a nightmare upgrade, which is why I went to Greytness to begin with… Other skins work OK, though.

  9. November 16th, 2010 at 13:55 | #11

    It nearly killed my site when I tried to reorganize some pages using the admin ‘Pages’ module. I never was able to recover… Was able to recover by using another skin (by/from Nina…)

    I liked it well enough to be back looking at your for-sale/professional skins. Looks like you do nice work. Let me know if you fix Greytness or guarantee Arch-X or elemento don’t have the same issues.

    • November 16th, 2010 at 14:05 | #12

      Hi Bob, Can you give me a little more detail about the problem you had with Greytness? This is the first I’ve heard about a potential problem using the Greytness skin on the Admin/Pages page.

      Thanks.

  10. October 10th, 2010 at 11:42 | #13

    Excellent skin and very kind developper.

    Thanks !

  11. August 18th, 2010 at 01:33 | #14

    Adam,

    Just a note to say I’ve used Greytness as a base for our club website – http://www.kartsportwellington.co.nz. There are still some other changes to tweak, but they will happen as I learn more about html etc.

  12. May 25th, 2010 at 00:16 | #15

    I wish DNN would adopt Greytness as their default skin. It is so good. Cleanly coded. Easy to modify. Fast and just seriously good-looking. Thanks for making it available under Creative Commons. I now use it as a starting point for all my new projects.

  13. Julie D
    May 9th, 2010 at 01:00 | #16

    I love using this skin! I use DNN for work and for my husband’s business, so I work with skins in various price points. I find that Greytness is superior to many of the paid skins – a clean template ready to let my content be the focus.

    Great job, and thank you!

  14. Nathan
    April 15th, 2010 at 19:28 | #17

    Love this skin!! 1 Problem I’m having when I login as host I cannot see the admin or host links … is that normal?

    • April 15th, 2010 at 19:37 | #18

      Hi Nathan,

      Yes, we removed the Admin and Host menu items from the Greytness horizontal menu as they can now be accessed from the links in the top right corner of the control panel (using DNN 5.x).

  15. Chuck
    March 2nd, 2010 at 14:24 | #19

    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.

  16. December 3rd, 2009 at 20:49 | #20

    Adam Humphrey :
    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:)

  17. December 3rd, 2009 at 19:06 | #21

    @ 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 :)

    • December 3rd, 2009 at 20:07 | #22

      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!

  18. December 3rd, 2009 at 17:59 | #23

    Thank you .I try many times.But still can’t make the menu Switch language.Thank you still

  19. November 23rd, 2009 at 05:52 | #25

    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.

  20. November 22nd, 2009 at 21:22 | #26

    @ 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.

  21. November 22nd, 2009 at 21:10 | #27

    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!

  22. November 3rd, 2009 at 12:35 | #28
  23. September 6th, 2009 at 15:38 | #29

    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

  24. August 29th, 2009 at 19:10 | #30

    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

  25. August 9th, 2009 at 18:12 | #31

    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.

    • August 9th, 2009 at 19:53 | #32

      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.

      Why did you put the login and logout at the bottom of the page?

      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.

  26. July 29th, 2009 at 19:56 | #33

    Map of the worldwide Greytness downloads 24 hours after release. There’s no question DotNetNuke is global. http://bit.ly/Ns2VM

  27. July 29th, 2009 at 12:11 | #34

    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.

  28. July 28th, 2009 at 15:47 | #35

    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!

    • July 29th, 2009 at 07:49 | #36

      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.

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