KrystalWare was developed to provide a clean, efficient, professional looking DNN portal with outstanding skin and container flexibility.  The large number of co-ordinated containers (50!), are mainly white, black and grey shades, employing a minimilist design approach suitable for business portals, e-commerce sites, and technology vendors. Click here to view screenshot.

KrystalWare themes are based on single background color with multiple colored glass accents. It comes with a set of 9 skins (2 themed sets of 4 - plus admin) but each set can generate 10 different colored themes using glass accents - thats a total of 90 skins.  (Instructions are included to generate color themes.  A PSD file is included to create custom colors and integrated logos.) 

Skins by default are variable width but can be set  to fixed.  They work great either way. Images are very efficient GIF's - small payload - speedy response. Containers implement most DNN 3.0 Action Buttons. Very integrated "look & feel" throughout. Outstanding flexibility - 9 Skins with additional color graphics (Krystal) to generate 10 times that!  50 mulit-level “themed” containers for maximum flexibility..  Photoshop PSD included for generating integrated LOGO.  LOGO token/image appear in both header and footer automatically. Graphic Pane that employs tileable background for additional image-based branding.

Excellent Documentation: Classes in the cascading style sheet has been fully commented.  HTML or ascx files are also fully commented.  Everythng required to make basic changes is accesible from the skin - whehter you want to better inegrate your skin or "reverse-engineer" it!

DNN3 Optimized: KrystalWare skins only work with DNN 3.0.11 and later, and take full advantage of the new skinning features. You may make a special request for a DNN 2.0.12 version (no-charge), but some features will not be available.  (This generally affects all action buttons.  Admin buttons cannot be integrated the same way.) Action buttons in KrystalWare look great - see here: KrystalWare Action Buttons

Admin Skins/Containers: Properly configured Admin skins and containers are included with each KrystalWare release. This provides a more efficient and elegant working environment for content creators, editors and administrators.  They can also be used on normal site pages for specific content requirements. Click here to see container examples: KrystalWare Containers or KrystalWare Skin Structure

Multi-Color Availability: Mutliple color skin and container combinations allow flexibility with larger site structures or to integrate exisisting identity materials such as logos and marketing materials.  Multiple KrystalWare themes can be used together to create larger portal systems that are well co-ordinated, yet unique for each section. Click here to see the available color themes: KrystalWare Themes

Command Button Links: X:Skins were one of the first DNN 2 skins that provided matching Command Button links and I continue that tradition with KrystalWare .  These classes are even more accessible in DNN 3 and they give your forms and other module buttons a more intuitive and integrated feel. Check this page out for graphic examples what I mean: Krystalware Command Buttons

High-Performance: Speed was a major design consideration for KrystalWare skins.  The main skin uses a total of 7 GIF image files with a combined payload of 5.55 KB's.  An average container employs about 6 slices and weigh-in at under 1 KB.  CSS and HTML were used where appropriate.  You don't have to give up pizzaz to get a snappy site!

Top Button: Tired of manually scrolling to the top of the page constantly?  KrystalWare incorporates a "jump to the top of the page" mechanism, that does not use named anchors.  (Named anchors will not work in DNN.)  Each container and skin automatically has a "Top" link to make navigation through your long pages a snap! Test this at www.skin3.com