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Hi Guy's, I have downloaded and used the excellent xd skin by Nina. I need to change the pictures in the header pane. Any one have any ideas how to do this?

Many thanks

Geoff Payne

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  Which skin? There are a few of them.  The way you can quickly identify them is right click and 'save background image' and look at the name when you save it.

Nina

Hi Mahesh,

I was able to change the images used in the skins buy just replacing them directly in the file structure. The image you referred to is located at [dnnroot]/Portals/[PortalNumber-Probably 0]/Skins/XDDesignAway/Pix/

So you could probably apply the skin as you downloaded from the website, and then FTP to the location above and replace the image file with your image. Ofcourse the name should be the same.

Regards,
Varun.

It's simple really.  Use ftp to upload the image you want.  Not sure why this is a problem?

You would be surprised at how few people have access to ftp with DNN - it has even surprised me.. .:-)

You can access the skin via the file manager too, but if it's setup as Host/_default/Skins... and you only have admin access, then ftp is the only way.

Or you can simply rename the images and reupload - it's all a matter of learning how to work with DNN

Nina

Is there a way to change the header photos only in one portal and not in another?  In other words, can I set a header image on a portal by portal basis?

You can resave and then upload to the Portal/0/skins/skinname folder and then Portals/1/skins/skinname folder - then each portal will see only the skin in that portal. That is called 'localised skinning' - or 'per portal' skinning. 

If you have skins in the _default/skins/skinname folder - then every portal that resides in that install can see it.  That's regarded as 'global' skinning.  It's shared amongst sites and everyone can see them.

You can programattically do some things, but this is the simplest, quickest approach.

Nina