I am looking to see if there is anyone out there with a professional understanding and desire to create/modify custom skins.   We know graphic designers, but would prefer someone who understands the telerik implementation of skins and can work independently.  Personally, I like the glassy looks of the forest theme for example, but changing the sprite files and making color choices is beyond my comfort zone and time constraints.  General feedback we have received is that the orange selected row in the forest grid is too bright and bold for example.  We also have needs to completely customize a skin to match our customers (and our) website look and feel.  We use  RadGrid heavily, FormDecorator with all standard html controls, radtext/numeric boxes, treeview, calendar, splitter/pane regularly.  Tabs, upload and a variety of other controls less frequently.  

I would envision creating a sample page with many controls on it if the designer needed us to do that, and passing a URL to a customer website and the interested party would take control.  Some of our customers do not have the best website design to work off of, so some creativity will be required.  Experience in professional web application design could lead to other opportunities.

Please note, we are NOT looking to hire an employee on either a full or part-time basis.  We are looking for a professional relationship with some entity who understands telerik skins and possesses a keen graphic inclination that we can rely on for our skin creation/modification needs.

Thank you.

Joel Tolbert
http://www.PeriscopeIQ.com

Hello,
JavaScript is a powerful client-side scripting language used in many modern websites and Web applications. In the hands of a skilled Web developer, JavaScript can enhance the user’s experience of the website and provide rich interactive components and features. But even though syntactically simple in nature, JavaScript is often difficult to author because of the environment it runs in: the Web browser.

Read more at 50 excellent tools to help you achieve various tasks in JavaScript

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Hello,
This is a question that I get very frequently, and I always tried to dodged the bullet, but I get it so much that I feel that I have to provide an answer. Obviously, I am (not so) slightly biased toward NHibernate, so while you read it, please keep it in mind.
Read more at NHibernate vs. Entity Framework 4.0

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Hello,
I want to share this
15 reasons why you should start using Model Driven Development

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Hello,
UML lost the programmers. There is no doubt about it… in my mind. And when a software design technology loses the programmers it fades away no matter what the academia thinks. This happened because UML was pushed in a direction that most code writers don’t like: it started to look a lot like bureaucratic paper work. If we list what went wrong it starts to look a lot like the mishaps of other committee driven technologies like CORBA for example.
Read more at 13 reasons for UML’s descent into darkness

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Mostafa Anoosheh

Cufon is awesome.  You generate a font, then attach it and the Cufon.js to your site.

What you get is instant client-side text replacing.  If done properly you won't even see the text popping to your Cufon font.  Even better, it supports all but the oldest browsers (even works on IE6!)

I prefer Cufon over other flash based alternatives because (and obviously) we're not relying on a plugin to be installed...just javascript enabled.

Tips:
1) use Cufon.now() at the bottom of the page above your .js scripts (like google analytics)
2) Older browsers w/out a css selector engine need the jQuery library loaded before cufon

I'm more of a Designer/Front-End guy but trying hard to understand .NET and learn as much as I can. I had a developer help me with some of this, but I'm still stumped.

I'm confused as to how I can get my form to validate using the validation controls.

Whenever I call the onClick="send_Click" it bypasses the validation and runs the form string and redirects to my thankyou.aspx.

When I replace it with the onClientClick it validates but fails to run the code in the aspx.cs file.

Here is a snippet of what is on the form page aka howtoget.aspx.

<div class="formboxit2">
        <div class="contactlabelist2"><span style="color:#246FF5">*</span><label>Email</label></div>
        <div class="contactinputist">
            <telerik:RadTextBox ID="Email" runat="server" Height="19px" Width="200px" BorderColor="White" BorderStyle="Solid" BorderWidth="2px" CssClass="radPad" Skin="Office2007" Font-Bold="True" Font-Names="Arial" Font-Size="12px" LabelCssClass="">
                <FocusedStyle BorderColor="#246FF5" BorderStyle="Solid" BorderWidth="2px" />
                <HoveredStyle BorderColor="#246FF5" BorderStyle="Solid" BorderWidth="2px" />
            </telerik:RadTextBox>
            
            <asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="RequiredFieldValidator3" runat="server" Display="Dynamic"
            ControlToValidate="Email" ErrorMessage="The textbox can not be empty!" EnableClientScript="False" />
        </div>
</div>
<div class="formboxitM">
    <div class="contactlabelist"><label>Message</label></div>
    <div class="contactinputist">
        <telerik:RadTextBox ID="Message" runat="server" Height="114px" TextMode="MultiLine" Width="634px" BorderColor="White" BorderStyle="Solid" BorderWidth="2px" Skin="Office2007" Font-Bold="True" Font-Names="Arial" Font-Size="12px" LabelCssClass="">
            <FocusedStyle BorderColor="#246FF5" BorderStyle="Solid" BorderWidth="2px" />
            <HoveredStyle BorderColor="#246FF5" BorderStyle="Solid" BorderWidth="2px" />
        </telerik:RadTextBox>
    </div>
</div>
<div class="contactinputistSub"><asp:button runat="server" ID="send" onClick="send_Click" BorderStyle="None" BorderWidth="0px" CssClass="swerps" /></div>
<div class="inquiry">*Your information will only be used for this inquiry.</div>   


and here is what I have on the aspx.cs

using System;
using System.Data;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Collections;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Security;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;
using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;
using System.Net.Mail;
using Telerik.Web.UI;

namespace domain.com
{
    public partial class howtoget : System.Web.UI.Page
    {
        protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
       }

        protected void send_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            try
            {
                string firstname = this.FirstName.Text;
                string lastname = this.LastName.Text;
                string phone = this.Phone.Text;
                string email = this.Email.Text;
                string messageoftext = this.Message.Text;
                string bodyoftext = firstname + " " + lastname + " " + "has requested to be contacted. " + firstname +
                    "'s email address is: " + email + " . You may contact this person at: " + phone + " . " + firstname+ " has left message: " + messageoftext;
                MailMessage message = new MailMessage("info@domain.com", "info@domain.com", "Customer Request", bodyoftext);
                SmtpClient emailClient = new SmtpClient("relay-hosting.secureserver.net ");
                message.IsBodyHtml = true;
                emailClient.Send(message);
                Response.Redirect("thankyou.aspx");
            }
            catch (Exception mailex)
            {
                Response.Write(mailex.ToString());
            }
 
        }
    }
}

How Do I Get Notifications of Updates?  I'd like an e-mail when new updates to Telerik products are released.  I'm apparently on some kind of e-mailing list, I'm a fan of Telerik's Facebook Page and I was interacting with Telerik staff almost daily.  Yet somehow I was never informed of WinForms Q3 2009 SP1 being released.  It looks like you normally post new release news in the Forum but it looks like noone posted about the WinForms Q3 2009 SP1.  Even if someone did, I don't want to have to check the Forum (even as an RSS Feed) or my Facebook Wall.  I'd like update notifications via e-mail.  Thanks.

Hello,
If you want t o find some good icons please look at Icon Finder.
Please let me know If you find some other nice tools.

Best regards,
Mostafa Anoosheh