ASP.NET 3.5 For Dummies®

Part III: Enhancing the Interface and User Experience

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This part focuses on creating functional, attractive, and nimble Web pages while promoting labor-saving techniques and reusing code. In Chapter 10, you see how a master page, style sheet, or skin controls the appearance of every ASP.NET page in a Web site. In Chapter 11, you step through the navigation controls to ensure that visitors can find your great content. Chapter 12 deals with HTML standards, page layout, and usability. Chapter 13 concentrates on the ListView control, which is introduced in ASP.NET 3.5. ListView grants you total control over its layout while the control worries about the data-handling details.

In the second half of Part III, I introduce you to visual effects, which add polish to your pages. In Chapter 14, you use styles to create rollover links that look like buttons. You also generate custom images for each visitor. Chapter 15 takes you into the free AJAX Control Toolkit where I show you how to spice up the basic ASP.NET controls at no cost — and almost no effort. The final chapter of this part covers Silverlight and Flash content.