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How cool was that? You got to make your own skin and container. You found out that it was not really all that hard, and in fact consisted almost entirely of look-and-feel design-oriented code.

There was no C# code in here, and if you did not have VWD as a designer, you could have done the whole thing in a simple text editor.

DotNetNuke has enabled you to create a two-tiered presentation layer. The use of tokens inside the skin and the ability of ASP.NET to compile user control code make for a fast load of the skin for the user.

While this skin is not the prettiest or the most involved as far as images go, it does give you the foundation to be able to create your own with confidence.

The next chapter will be rather advanced. It will cover topics such as JavaScript and Ajax technologies to enable your website to be more efficient and faster.

This chapter is pretty advanced. It has been all about increasing the performance and usability of your web pages.

You found out that that you can use JavaScript with the ASP server controls to bypass unnecessary postbacks to the web server. This allows you to add some DHTML to your page to make it stand out and be more responsive to the user.

The last thing I covered in this chapter was Ajax. Ajax is a technique that allows you to make asynchronous calls to the web server and get back results with no postback involved. While this involves a lot of JavaScript, the trade-off is often blazing speed in updating your web pages. If there is no rendering of the page when fields are updated, then there is no flicker, and the page will be more like a desktop application for the user.

The next chapter deals with what to look at if you want to take your web programming to the next level. Hopefully, this book will only be the starting point for your new website programming skills.

All in all, DotNetNuke is a great way for you to establish a web presence. It doesn’t require that you be an expert to create dynamic websites, and there’s little you can’t do with DNN if you take time to learn a bit more about it.

Considering that all the tools you need are free, and the websites you can create can be pretty slick, you can’t lose.

I hope that you have found this book useful and interesting, and that you will expand your knowledge even further with the suggestions I’ve made in this chapter.