In this tutorial we will walk you through step by step how to create a responsive skin for DotNetNuke 7 using the Twitter Bootstrap framework.

Bootstrap is a free collection of HTML, CSS and Javascript code created by Twitter to aid web designers to create rapid and consistent websites.

Bootstrap offers several powerful tools that can be a huge advantage to a DotNetNuke skin developer.

Some of these include:

• Various layout options: Bootstrap allows us to work with a variety of layout options such as the grid system, this grid system allows us to create pane layouts extremely quickly
• Default modern text and button styles
• A selection of handy javascript plugins such as popups, animated menus, and a responsive carousel

This tutorial will give you a solid template for creating your bootstrap based skins and containers. You will also learn some new techniques such as file inclusion using the new client resource management features.

This video contains:

• How to allow modules to be dragged and dropped into empty panes
• Removing the grey line underneath module titles
• How to link the portal title to the portal homepage