I'm being asked to prepare a skin format, that is functionally a little like frames. Separate header, footer and main content pages called into a parent page by script pieces that look like this: {skin/header.html,load} I only do a little JS, but suppose this code could be JS. The customer is calling the process skinning. Is this common (without the frames structure) in DW and if so does anyone have the full JS script that would call up the child pages into the parent page? Thanks, AMc

Should I stay or should I go now? Thanks and goodbye Joe.

Well, skinning is a loose term, relating to themes. Sounds like the client has a content management based system that has template tags/functions (the code you exampled in the {} curly braces). Unless the client contact is tech-saavy, they probably are regurgitating the term "skinning" without properly defining what they require from you.

Are you familar with which code/system the client wants you to design a skin for or is the client asking you to develop the whole system that will use your skin?

Now, as for DW, you can develop the CSS/JS/XHTML for the skin elements, so I'm not sure what your question as far as DW is concerned. CSS Zen Garden (www.csszengarden.com) can be considered a site that uses skins, but it uses no frames or JS, just pure XHTML/CSS. Another example, Quicktime can have skins and those are made with PNG's & XML.

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