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Designing and Developing ASP.NET 4 Web Apps (Exam 70-519) Tutorials
Page Consistency / Controlling Look and Feel
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The look and the feel of your website is very important and you will see some aspects of this on the exam, because after all you're looking at an exam that's about Designing and Architecting Websites and Web Applications. And so now let's talk about how you can control the look and feel. I'm going to introduce you to some topics, give you the broad view that'll help you figure out where to, kind of head in trimming the correct answer to a question. And then we'll drill into these just a little bit and do some examples. First of all a website or a web application is going to have a personality. Now it's going to have a personality that just kind of happens or that you deliberately design and build in and you obviously want to build it and design it in. The look and feel is going to at least, I don't know what you call it, subliminally, subconsciously reflect the purpose of the site to the end-user. If you've ever noticed banking sites have a very stoic, very clean look and yet like interior designers or photography sites have a much more artsy look. And then if you go to an artist site, like go to a rap artist site and look at how that looks, it's very, very different look and feel and so in a lot of ways you might not even realize this a lot of times, but the look and feel of the site reflect the purpose. They also enhance the usability of the site, because someone in their mid sixties go into a banking site to do their banking are going to be looking for much, much different usability features then a 14 year old going to a music site. And so you want to make sure that you can control that look and feel. In ASP.NET 4 Themes and Skins define the look and feel of a web page and an entire website and so the questions that you're going to see on the exam are going to have to do with Themes and Skins. Now a Theme is simply a collective result of CSS or Cascading Style Sheet Files, Skin Files and Images. So what we want to do is apply a consistent look and feel across every one of our pages. So we're going to use Cascading Style Sheets, Skin Files and Images and we're going to combine those or layer those on top of our Master Site Page and then we're going to load content in. Now the Cascading Style Sheets or CSS, let me just point out this is fundamental to website appearance now a days. So this is something you absolutely need to know. Now you're not going to be tested specifically on Cascading Style Sheets on this exam, but the more you understand about them and what they do, may make some of the questions a little bit easier for you, but you're not going to be tested per say on Cascading Style Sheets and CSS is outside the scope of this course. Cascading Style Sheets when you first look at it seems kind of simple, when you begin to implement it, it can get very involved and there's about 438,000 ways to do it, one of those is correct and one of those is most efficient and after you tried about 6,000 times you'll that one ok? And I'm not being sarcastic, that's just kind of real world alright? So if the Themes is a collection of items that controls the look and feel, then a Skin is a part of a theme that affects the look and feel of the Web Server Controls ok? So the Theme is the overall look and feel and then you'll hear this term, a Skin and that has to do with Web Server Controls and we can control Server Controls individually or collectively. And this is kind of like, you know how you can set skin numbers or skin looks if you go out to certain web applications or for example if you do like a simulated iPod on some websites, you can set a skin on it, some games have skins, that sort of thing. So here's the bottom line, on the exam just remember, anytime they're asking to you control the looks of entire pages, sections of the site, the whole site, they are talking about a Theme. Theme equals pages, when you're talking about controlling the look and feel. Skin equals controls, anytime they are saying they want certain controls to be a different background color or foreground color, anything like that you should be thinking skins. On the exam Theme equals Pages, Skin equals Controls. So in some separate videos here we'll take a look at Themes and Skins and throw an example in there as well.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Designing and Developing ASP.NET 4 Web Apps (Exam 70-519) |
| Author: | Mark Long |
| SKU: | 34292 |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61866-029-9 |
| Release Date: | 2011-12-31 |
| Duration: | 8.5 hrs / 108 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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