Monday, September 11, 2006

ASP.NET 2.0 Themes and Skins

Quickstart Tutorial - Applying Styles, Themes, and Skins
The Themes and Skins feature of ASP.NET 2.0 allows you to factor style and layout information into a separate group of files, collectively called a Theme. A Theme can then be applied to any site to affect the look and feel of pages and controls within the site. Style changes to a site can then be easily maintained by making changes to the Theme, without having to edit the individual pages in your site. Themes can also be shared with other developers.
http://quickstarts.asp.net/QuickStartv20/aspnet/doc/themes/default.aspx


Design Templates
Download these professionally designed Starter Kits and XHTML templates to get you started creating compelling, standards-compliant Web pages with ASP.NET 2.0. There are four Starter Kits below. These Starter Kits are complete web site solutions using ASP.NET’s latest controls (tree view control, grid view control, detail view control, login control, site map path controls and more). There are another 5 XHTML templates below. These are individual XHTML strict Web page templates (available each in two different colors) that are accompanied by design philosophy whitepapers that describe each template’s Section 508 conformance, page layout with CSS (page layouts using CSS floats or tables), Web page accessibility best practices and Web standard resources. All nine templates below are easily customizable and extendable to fit your own content.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/reference/design/templates/


Other Links:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ykzx33wh.aspx
http://www.dotnettreats.com/samplethemes/default.aspx
http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/ThemesAndSkins.asp
http://www.theserverside.net/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=41895
http://communityserver.org/forums/thread/546843.aspx
http://www.devsource.com/article2/0,1895,1824218,00.asp
http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2004/11/15/libertyonwhidbey.html