I was wondering if it is possible to create my own skin options framework, as I don't feel the in built one satisfies my needs. I would like to have the following after the skin is applied, a new backoffice section and new database table containing the options. I would really like to do this but I'm not sure how to go about it, any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.
@Jan, thanks for the reply! Do you know about my own markup in the options? Like in WordPress. It uses something called 'dependencies', but this is an abstracted way of creating the options using an XML file that Umbraco reads. So in essence Umbraco has full control of the markup, but for my premium templates I wanted to create something special for the options panel. Here is what I want to do: http://blog.themeforest.net/wordpress/create-an-options-page-for-your-wordpress-theme/, but of course out of the box Umbraco can't do this.
Do you think this will take much 'intelligence' to do?
I hope this removes some of my vagueness! Again any help is appreciated.
Creating skin options panel
I was wondering if it is possible to create my own skin options framework, as I don't feel the in built one satisfies my needs. I would like to have the following after the skin is applied, a new backoffice section and new database table containing the options. I would really like to do this but I'm not sure how to go about it, any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.
Hi Ryan
Yeah it should be possible to create your own skins...don't know completely how it works as I have not had the chance to play around with it yet.
But I think you should have a look at this skinning guide if you have not had so already: http://our.umbraco.org/FileDownload?id=499 (it's a PDF)
And there are some videos about it here as well http://umbraco.com/help-and-support/video-tutorials/creating-a-skin-for-umbraco/introduction
Hope this helps a little bit.
/Jan
@Jan, thanks for the reply! Do you know about my own markup in the options? Like in WordPress. It uses something called 'dependencies', but this is an abstracted way of creating the options using an XML file that Umbraco reads. So in essence Umbraco has full control of the markup, but for my premium templates I wanted to create something special for the options panel. Here is what I want to do: http://blog.themeforest.net/wordpress/create-an-options-page-for-your-wordpress-theme/, but of course out of the box Umbraco can't do this.
Do you think this will take much 'intelligence' to do?
I hope this removes some of my vagueness! Again any help is appreciated.
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