Hi Joe -- some time back (in 2009 according to the thread I was reading) you posted this:

I've made a preview of the next release available for anyone who would like to get the new features early and help test for the official release.

Its available now (only for MS SQL) on our Novell Forge Download Page, mojoportal-2-3-1-8-preview-mssql-deploymentfiles.zip

Whats New?

New Side Show with transition effects built into the Html Content Feature making it easy to animate image and content rotation.

The andreasvicklund-02-alt1 skins also shows how to rotate content in the skin.

 

Given that far newer versions are now available (I'm using 2.3.4.3 from the MS web app gallery, and I think there is a later release than that, maybe more than one), I'm guessing this is now available -- I see the andreasvicklund-02-alt1 skin, and love the rotation effect, don't really care for the white background, so it's not really suitable as a starting point to make a customized version, I'd have to change literally every color in the CSS file in order to make a dark-bg site out of it -- so what I need to know is this:  can the code that handles the rotation in layout.Master of that skin simply be lifted out into another skin's layout.Master?  Is there anything else involved, any other settings or code that needs to be copied?  The exact code I'm referring to is:

<div id="wrapheader">
        <portal:SiteTitle id="SiteTitle" runat="server"></portal:SiteTitle>  
        <portal:SlidePanel id="spanel1" runat="server" CssClass="rotatecontainer">
        <portal:SkinFolderImage ID="imgs1" runat="server" ImageFileName="head1.jpg" CssClass="rotateitem" AlternateText=" " />
        <portal:SkinFolderImage ID="imgs2" runat="server" ImageFileName="head2.jpg" CssClass="rotateitem" AlternateText=" " />
        <div class="rotateitem">
        <asp:Image id="img4" runat="server" CssClass="floatrightimage" AlternateText=" " Height="60" ImageUrl="~/Data/logos/mojothumb.jpg" />
        <p>lorem ipsum dolor lorem ipsum dolor lorem ipsum dolor lorem ipsum dolor lorem ipsum dolor lorem ipsum dolor lorem ipsum dolor
        lorem ipsum dolor  </p>
        </div>
        <portal:SkinFolderImage ID="imgs3" runat="server" ImageFileName="head3.jpg" CssClass="rotateitem" AlternateText=" " />
        
        </portal:SlidePanel>
    </div>

I've located the pertinent CSS in the style.css, which is so nicely commented to make it easier for us.  I just need to know if copying that scrap of code shown above (plus the attendant CSS in style.css) is all I need to worry about, or if there's more to it.  I've studied that asp.net tutorial (mentioned in my last post a few days ago) to some degree, so the code doesn't look as foreign to me as it did at first, I can kinda figure out what's going on with it, but I'd be vastly overstating the case to say I really have a grasp of it yet.

thx!!

Andria

I just remembered one other thing I wanted to ask, regarding this:  about including a file to hold the rotation code, instead of having it hardcoded in the layout.Master.  I'm familiar with the way that this works in php, somewhat less so with SSI inclusions (I never can seem to get the path right, with the SSI kind), and I'm wondering if ASP.NET has something of that kind -- I'm sure it must, but not sure how to code it.  By doing it with a file inclusion, I could leave a layout.Master file fairly small, and not worry about having to update it if I wanted to update the header -- just update the included file, or create a new one and change the inclusion in layout.Master.

Is this possible, and if so, how?

Thx much!

Andria

That is awesome, Joe; thank you so much!  I knew these control things were fundamental, from first glance, and the more I learn, the more true that seems to be!  Now I just gotta learn to build them -- and I think it's a lot like when I learned HTML; I can't just read it, if I want to really get it, I need to write it myself, test it out, fiddle around with it and see what works and what doesn't.

Thanks!  You rock!

Andria