DotNetNuke containers

Containers are best known as the wrappers or decorative features around information that is displayed on a website. They are similar to skins in the design application and can be applied to a module, a page, a site and with some clever coding, appear on only certain areas of a website, without having to do anything, eg.. it's managed within the skin.

They are great for isolating content, creating a 'visual standout' and highlighting feature information.

Containers can make an impact on a page, by providing images instead of text for headings, or extra padding between content, or helping break up a site and providing whitespace between content areas.

XD Design doesn't use many containers in this design. It just looks like it on some pages, and with a little bit of patience, understanding how modules work, you can create some cool looks with or without containers.

Looking for Free Containers?

These Free Containers are legacy containers from DNN1 where once upon a time, we had to do a little work to get them going and they looked great. That was when skins were just a hard coded solution and most of us got quite excited and created some rather over the top but cool skins.

These containers were designed for DNN2 using html method of skinning, but have been converted to DNN4 using the skin path method and a great idea to download and look at the code to get you started.

These should provide you inspiration to add that extra touch to your site and probably mainly suited to the community/personal sites and there are plenty of them. The containers have been convterted by Kirsty, our DotNetNuke intern and she thinks they are pretty cool.

There are 18 containers in all and part of my commitment to offer interesting resources and tools and information to make your DotNetNuke site a winner.