May 25th, 2008Creating a Theme For Each Year of Code Camp Using Skins in ASP.NETBuilding the New Code Camp Web Site (Part 3)

Article Series

Article 1: Best Practices for Building an ASP.NET quality web site
Article 2: Multi Level ASP.NET Menu with CSS Friendly Control Adapters
Article 3: Creating a Theme For Each Year of Code Camp Using Skins in ASP.NET
Article 4: Creating a Modal Login Window Using the Telerik Modal RadWindow Component
Article 5: Using LINQ to Merge Mailing Lists and Filter Opt Outs
Article 6: Multi Level ASP.NET Menu with CSS Friendly Control Adapters (The Source Code!)

Introduction

Creating themes for ASP.NET 2.0 is very easy if you follow the standard guidelines Microsoft gives us.  Microsoft gives a pretty good discussion in the MSDN article
ASP.NET Themes and Skins Overview.  I’ve read it several times but since I don’t do this very often I keep forgetting the simple things.  Recently,
I posted a question on ASP.NET forums asking how to have an image automatically come from the correct theme directory.  As usual, Dave Sussman
gave me the perfect answer.

"You should store the images under the themes and set the ImageUrl in the skin file. Give the control a SkinID in both the skin file and in the page. When the theme changes the appropriate image will be used."

In this article, I’ll basically explain his answer with an example using the code camp web site.

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May 19th, 2008Multi Level ASP.NET Menu with CSS Friendly Control AdaptersBuilding the New Code Camp Web Site (Part 2)

Article Series

(Source Code Available in Article 6 Below – (Added March 2009))

Article 1: Best Practices for Building an ASP.NET quality web site
Article 2: Multi Level ASP.NET Menu with CSS Friendly Control Adapters
Article 3: Creating a Theme For Each Year of Code Camp Using Skins in ASP.NET
Article 4: Creating a Modal Login Window Using the Telerik Modal RadWindow Component
Article 5: Using LINQ to Merge Mailing Lists and Filter Opt Outs
Article 6: Multi Level ASP.NET Menu with CSS Friendly Control Adapters (The Source Code!)

Introduction

If you have complex styling issues involving ASP.NET we are experts and might be able to help. This technique is fairly old however newer methods could be used for similar results. Contact Peter Kellner and his associates here.

It’s often the case that brilliant designers will make interfaces that are hard to implement using standard frameworks like ASP.NET.  As Software engineers striving for consistency, we always want to do the best we can with the standard tool kits to take advantage for built in functionality.  ASP.NET 2.0’s built in menu system is a perfect example.  If you use that menu system, you get to make very simple declarative site maps by simply using the ASP.NET 2.0 Site Navigation Features.

The requirement faced today has to do with building the web site for our third annual code camp.  We have that brilliant designer I mentioned above, and he has made a design that just seems too perfect to compromise.  Here are some screen shots of how the designer envisions the sight looking and working after it is completed.

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May 13th, 2008Best Practices for Building an asp.net quality web siteBuilding the New Code Camp Web Site (Part 1)

(That’s right, Code Camp is coming!  11/8 and 11/9 again at Foothill College)

Article Series

Article 1: Best Practices for Building an ASP.NET quality web site
Article 2: Multi Level ASP.NET Menu with CSS Friendly Control Adapters
Article 3: Creating a Theme For Each Year of Code Camp Using Skins in ASP.NET
Article 4: Creating a Modal Login Window Using the Telerik Modal RadWindow Component
Article 5: Using LINQ to Merge Mailing Lists and Filter Opt Outs
Article 6: Multi Level ASP.NET Menu with CSS Friendly Control Adapters (The Source Code!)

So, first, a little background.  As many of you know, I’ve been the ring leader of Silicon Valley Code Camp here in northern California for the past 2 years.  Since Code Camp is a limited budget, 100% volunteer effort, the most important thing is to have efficient communications between everyone.  Attendees, Speakers, Organizer, Sponsors and everyone else involved in the event.  To that end, the first code camp web site was created.  It was based on CSS provided by Microsoft.  Check out the post I made two years ago about it titled "Zero to Professional Web Site in Two Days".

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