This site has been put together to highlight what can be delivered to the
web using ASP.NET. I admit that I have no graphical skills at all but, using
off-the-shelf template design tools such as artisteer, to provide the template,
it is possible to deliver a solution that is professional and pleasing to the
eye.
Page structure
When I was putting this site together I created the template and exported it as
html. From the html I was able to generate an ASP.NET Master File. My first
concern was the creation of the navigation. My approach to this was to extract
this out to an xml file. I then used an XSLT transformation to generate the html
within a usercontrol. You can see then menu example in this page has been
created this way. The links dont actually go anywhere as yet but I think you
will get the idea.. This way I can modify the navigation outwith the page
itself (or even move this into a database to be content managed at a later
date). I found the XML editor provided by
Editix to be a great help in generating the required xslt file.
Thanks guys !!
Artisteer generated html makes it easy to determine what parts of the page should
be converted to content placeholders. From there I can develop usercontrols to
wrap the extraction of content from a database into html which will be rendered
correctly based on the CSS markups used in the underlying style-sheets. In this
way it would be a simple process to re-skin the web site.