2012-06-10 Skinning uPortal: For Developers (pre-conf)

There's more than one way to skin a cat. This expression refers to removing the very tough skin from the delicate flesh of a catfish. There are many ways to skin a catfish and all were initially developed through trial and error in an attempt to find the best way to remove the skin without tearing the edible flesh into smaller bits and chunks. Like most fish, an intact one-piece half-fish fillet of catfish is most desirable for cooking (battered, breaded or pan fried). To obtain such catfish fillets, takes knack and technique. Likewise, the goal of this seminar is to refine your uPortal and uMobile skinning technique. We want to get right to the content so this seminar won't cover the installation of the portal, but we'll touch upon development environments before digging into skinning and theming best practices and debugging common skin issues across desktop and mobile platforms.

Seminar highlights:

• What's the difference between a theme and a skin?
• How do you change the theme?
• How do you change or create new skins?
• What are some common skin issues?