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ASP.NET 2.0 includes a new set of features that allow you to define the look-and-feel of Web sites. The purpose of the Colorful Web Site Starter Kit is to help you to create, modify, and use ASP.NET 2.0 Skins, Styles, and Themes to define the Graphic User Interface of your Web Site. The Colorful Web Site Starter Kit provides eight free sample ASP.NET 2.0 Beta 2 Themes. Disclaimer: Some images and color combinations that appear in this Starter Kit were taken from My MSN and Windows XP desktop. Microsoft is not responsible for, shall have no liability for and disclaims all warranties whatsoever, expressed or implied, related to the Starter Kit, including without limitation any warranties related to performance, security, stability, or non-infringement of title of the sample (including site content) or any controls downloaded from the site. All material is provided as-is. Table of Contents Before you start reading Introduction How to define a Web site's look-and-feel with ASP.NET 2.0 Free ASP.NET 2.0 Themes Conclusion References Before you start reading This page allows readers to set programmatically a selected theme. Before you start reading, please tell me what color you love: I love blue! I love green! I love pink! I love purple! I love red! I love win xp blue! I love win xp silver! I love yellow! Introduction Every time you start building a Web site, you need to define the Web site's Graphic User Interface (GUI). Usually, you need to choose and define a set of colors, fonts, images, styles, navigation schemas, and layout. As a developer, you might be the one devoted to build complex functionality for Web Sites, and in most cases, you might have few time to create a nice look-and-feel for the pages. Web developers and designers sometimes need to build theme sets for Web sites to accomplish different purposes: Building quick prototypes: You might need to build a quick prototype that emulates functionality for a new Web Application that your customer asked for. Sometimes you need to develop the prototype with few time and a set of predefined themes can help you to build a pretty prototype and to concentrate in functionality details. Personalization: Some Web sites and portals require the use of role-based personalization. Users might choose their favorite color and layout configuration and a set of predefined themes can help you to provide personalized configuration for the users. GUI Standards: Your company has different teams that constantly build Web applications. Each team uses a particular GUI configuration and you want that all the Web applications developed in the company share a standard look-and-feel. Defining and distributing a Theme might help you to assure that all the company's Web applications have the same look-and-feel. Microsoft has thought about this need and has created a solution for this problem. ASP.NET 2.0 includes MasterPages, Themes, Skins, Cascading StyleSheets (CSS), and a set of WebControls that integrate to build a predefined style in a Rapid Application Design (RAD) approach. The following document explains how to use ASP.NET 2.0 Skins, Styles, Themes, and WebControls to create and modify GUI for Web Sites. I also provide for free eight ASP.NET 2.0 Themes. How to define a Web site's look-and-feel with ASP.NET 2.0 ASP.NET 2.0 has evolved dramatically to allow Web developers to create complex functionality for Web applications in less time, and with less code. ASP.NET 2.0 provides a set of features that help to create and enhance the look-and-feel of Web applications. The features that allow to define a Web site's appearance with ASP.NET 2.0 are: MasterPages: Allow you to factor out layout, structure, and interface elements (headers, footers, navigation bars, content placeholders) definition. MasterPages provide a consistent layout for Web sites. For more information on MasterPages, read Web Site Consistency Made Easy with ASP.NET 2.0 Master Pages. Styles: Allow you to define rich designs through CSS and the style property of standard HTML tags, HTML server controls, and Web server controls. For more information on CSS, read the W3C Cascading Style Sheets specs. Skins: Allow you to define individual HTML and Web control styles. Themes: Group of files (CSS, Skins, Images) that define the look-and-feel of Web pages. For more information on Skins and Themes, read Introduction to ASP.NET Themes. |
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