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Hi,

I am wondering what people do to achieve a consistent look and feel for
their websites? Does anybody here do anything similar to the Composite View
design pattern, where a view renderer effectively reads a configuration and
builds up the HTML by choosing particular views based on state and other
factors? I am working on an ecommerce site, and there are quite a few
different screens. In the vanilla fashion, the HTML in the aspx forms is
duplicated, and I would like to avoid this.

If anybody has any advice, links to papers etc on this stuff I would be
extremely grateful.

Thanks

Nick.
Nov 18 '05 #1
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Hi Nick,

Take a look at MasterPages; here[1] you'll find lots of useful links to it.

[1] http://weblogs.asp.net/vga/archive/2003/05/20/7334.aspx

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"Nick" <fr**@here.ther e> wrote in message
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Hi,

I am wondering what people do to achieve a consistent look and feel for
their websites? Does anybody here do anything similar to the Composite View design pattern, where a view renderer effectively reads a configuration and builds up the HTML by choosing particular views based on state and other
factors? I am working on an ecommerce site, and there are quite a few
different screens. In the vanilla fashion, the HTML in the aspx forms is
duplicated, and I would like to avoid this.

If anybody has any advice, links to papers etc on this stuff I would be
extremely grateful.

Thanks

Nick.

Nov 18 '05 #2
This all goes away with Whidbey and Master Pages, but for now I'm doing
something like this

http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/page_templates.asp

"Nick" <fr**@here.ther e> wrote in message
news:OW******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP10.phx.gbl...
Hi,

I am wondering what people do to achieve a consistent look and feel for
their websites? Does anybody here do anything similar to the Composite View design pattern, where a view renderer effectively reads a configuration and builds up the HTML by choosing particular views based on state and other
factors? I am working on an ecommerce site, and there are quite a few
different screens. In the vanilla fashion, the HTML in the aspx forms is
duplicated, and I would like to avoid this.

If anybody has any advice, links to papers etc on this stuff I would be
extremely grateful.

Thanks

Nick.

Nov 18 '05 #3
I'm using the same method, which works well, though the auto tag completion
doesn't seem to work in HTML view of ASPX pages. Probably because the
<HTML> tags have been put into the basepage. Sometimes this means that I
end up developing stuff on a test page which derives from the normal
System.Web.UI.P age class (and includes the HTML tags), before moving it into
another aspx page which derives from my custom base page (eg.
Mun.Web.UI.Temp late), where the HTML tags are in the template page.

Do you get the same behaviour, and/or any ideas to get around the tag
completion problem?

Cheers,

Mun

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Munsifali Rashid
http://www.munsplace.com/

"Michael" <raterus@localh ost> wrote in message
news:eq******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP09.phx.gbl...
This all goes away with Whidbey and Master Pages, but for now I'm doing
something like this

http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/page_templates.asp


Nov 18 '05 #4
Thanks Michael.
"Michael" <raterus@localh ost> wrote in message
news:eq******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP09.phx.gbl...
This all goes away with Whidbey and Master Pages, but for now I'm doing
something like this

http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/page_templates.asp

"Nick" <fr**@here.ther e> wrote in message
news:OW******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP10.phx.gbl...
Hi,

I am wondering what people do to achieve a consistent look and feel for
their websites? Does anybody here do anything similar to the Composite

View
design pattern, where a view renderer effectively reads a configuration

and
builds up the HTML by choosing particular views based on state and other
factors? I am working on an ecommerce site, and there are quite a few
different screens. In the vanilla fashion, the HTML in the aspx forms is duplicated, and I would like to avoid this.

If anybody has any advice, links to papers etc on this stuff I would be
extremely grateful.

Thanks

Nick.


Nov 18 '05 #5
Thanks for the link Victor.

"Victor Garcia Aprea [MVP]" <vg*@NOobiesSPA M.com> wrote in message
news:%2******** ********@tk2msf tngp13.phx.gbl. ..
Hi Nick,

Take a look at MasterPages; here[1] you'll find lots of useful links to it.
[1] http://weblogs.asp.net/vga/archive/2003/05/20/7334.aspx

--
Victor Garcia Aprea
Microsoft MVP | ASP.NET
Looking for insights on ASP.NET? Read my blog:
http://obies.com/vga/blog.aspx

To contact me remove 'NOSPAM'. Please post all questions to the newsgroup
"Nick" <fr**@here.ther e> wrote in message
news:OW******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP10.phx.gbl...
Hi,

I am wondering what people do to achieve a consistent look and feel for
their websites? Does anybody here do anything similar to the Composite

View
design pattern, where a view renderer effectively reads a configuration

and
builds up the HTML by choosing particular views based on state and other
factors? I am working on an ecommerce site, and there are quite a few
different screens. In the vanilla fashion, the HTML in the aspx forms is duplicated, and I would like to avoid this.

If anybody has any advice, links to papers etc on this stuff I would be
extremely grateful.

Thanks

Nick.


Nov 18 '05 #6
Thanks Michael.
"Michael" <raterus@localh ost> wrote in message
news:eq******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP09.phx.gbl...
This all goes away with Whidbey and Master Pages, but for now I'm doing
something like this

http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/page_templates.asp

"Nick" <fr**@here.ther e> wrote in message
news:OW******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP10.phx.gbl...
Hi,

I am wondering what people do to achieve a consistent look and feel for
their websites? Does anybody here do anything similar to the Composite

View
design pattern, where a view renderer effectively reads a configuration

and
builds up the HTML by choosing particular views based on state and other
factors? I am working on an ecommerce site, and there are quite a few
different screens. In the vanilla fashion, the HTML in the aspx forms is duplicated, and I would like to avoid this.

If anybody has any advice, links to papers etc on this stuff I would be
extremely grateful.

Thanks

Nick.


Nov 18 '05 #7
Thanks for the link Victor.

"Victor Garcia Aprea [MVP]" <vg*@NOobiesSPA M.com> wrote in message
news:%2******** ********@tk2msf tngp13.phx.gbl. ..
Hi Nick,

Take a look at MasterPages; here[1] you'll find lots of useful links to it.
[1] http://weblogs.asp.net/vga/archive/2003/05/20/7334.aspx

--
Victor Garcia Aprea
Microsoft MVP | ASP.NET
Looking for insights on ASP.NET? Read my blog:
http://obies.com/vga/blog.aspx

To contact me remove 'NOSPAM'. Please post all questions to the newsgroup
"Nick" <fr**@here.ther e> wrote in message
news:OW******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP10.phx.gbl...
Hi,

I am wondering what people do to achieve a consistent look and feel for
their websites? Does anybody here do anything similar to the Composite

View
design pattern, where a view renderer effectively reads a configuration

and
builds up the HTML by choosing particular views based on state and other
factors? I am working on an ecommerce site, and there are quite a few
different screens. In the vanilla fashion, the HTML in the aspx forms is duplicated, and I would like to avoid this.

If anybody has any advice, links to papers etc on this stuff I would be
extremely grateful.

Thanks

Nick.


Nov 18 '05 #8

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