Chapter 13. Master Pages and Navigation
Websites look better and are less confusing to users when they have a consistent look and feel as you move from page to page. ASP.NET facilitates the creation of consistency with master pages, which allow you to create a consistent frame in which each page will place its content.
Navigation adds to the user’s ease of use by providing a site map, or by providing “bread crumbs” that tell the user how he got to the current page. By placing your navigation aids in master pages, you can provide consistent navigational cues to your users, making for an enhanced user experience.
You can also control the user’s browser history so he can quickly and accurately move back or forward to different asynchronous postbacks on the same AJAX-enabled page.
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