Chapter 6. Creating Consistent Looking Web Sites
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS CHAPTER:
How to use master and content pages that enable you to define the global look and feel of a web page
How to work with a centralized base page that enables you to define common behavior for all pages in your site
How to create themes to define the look and feel of your site with an option for the user to choose a theme at runtime
How to create skins to make site-wide changes to control layout
What the ASP.NET page life cycle is and why it's important
When you're building a web site you should strive to make the layout and behavior as consistent as possible. Consistency gives your site a professional appearance and it helps your visitors to find their way around the site. Fortunately, ASP.NET 4 and Visual Web Developer 2010 offer a number of great features and tools to implement a consistent design, helping you create great-looking pages in no time.
In previous chapters you learned how to work with VWD, HTML, CSS, and server controls to create your web pages visually. Chapter 5 introduced you to programming in ASP.NET. This chapter is the first that combines these concepts, by showing you — among many other things — how to use programming code to change the appearance of the site.
The next section shows you how to create a master page that defines the general look and feel of a page. The ASPX pages in your site can then use this master page without the need to rewrite the layout. The remaining sections of ...
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