Thread: Replacing Admin Skin

Hello,
We installed AspDotNet 8 yesterday. Today I adjusted the skin_01 for the store by replacing the images and updating contact info and so on just to get familiar.
I change dthe style.css to make teh background light gray like our website.
The store looks fine.

All at once the admin pages have gone gray, the blue background and images have disappeared. In IE I only see teh login buttons at the top, in Firefox I can see the text. I thought it might be something I did to the skin template or CSS file, so I uploaded the original files.

No change.
We restarted the web site and database and computers.
But the nice look and feel is gone. The page is a gray wash. Only some text shows in Firefox.
I did not generate the dev license key yet.
Is there something to do with caching or reset cache that might do this?
How to fix the admin?
thanks!

I see you submitted a support ticket also. Please make sure that you have also replaced the original admin/skins/ directory as well...the admin skin and styles are completely separate from the skin and styles on the front end

Here's what can happen: The admin and the store directory have a similar file structure and similar names on files. Be very careful to note that the skins/Skin_1/style.css directory is not Web/admin/skins/Skin_1/ style.css
Upload your store style.css file to Web/skins/Skin_1/style.css

If you find your store or admin suddenly incomprehensible, check recent files uploaded and look for something uploaded incorrectly.

In this case, the style.css file was placed in the wrong directory.
The fix, go back to your files (or back up) and upload the correct css file to the admin/skins/Skin_1/ style.css
Problem solved.

Tip: if you do not have a clean file or backup, make one by re-executing the originial aspdotnetstorefront exe file and install it into a backup directory for safekeeping.

Note: the admin directory was probably renamed for security during installation and everyone will have a different name in place of "admin."