Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Design: CSS, Themes, and Master Pages

Chapter 10. Bringing It All Together — A New Theme

If you have read this book from cover to, well, this chapter, you should have gained an appreciation of the tools you take with you into every project that you can and should implement before you ever write your first connection object to the database of your choice. You first took a high-level look at the basic considerations of web design today, from screen resolution to browser demographics across the web. You have begun to understand some of the meaning behind all of this "accessibility" talk on the web and, maybe, it is no longer just an abstract concept that other developers have to worry about. With that, you began to better understand one of the more hot debates in web design today: the use of CSS vs. tables for web layout. You saw that there are some considerable bumps in your path to full CSS implementation but, hopefully, you also saw some pretty good reasons to consider it. You then started on the basic tenants of your layout, creating your logo graphic and picking the color scheme that would be carried throughout your site.

These first few chapters gave you the prerequisite knowledge of general web design that you would need to start getting into the .NET tools available to take you into the ranks of aesthNETics developers. You learned that, to be a true aesthNETics developer, you need to be more than just someone who knows .NET code. You were given the basic foundation of good aesthNETics with overviews of the concepts ...