Designing the Screen Layout

The Form Designer for ASP.NET is a vast improvement over Visual Interdev. My friend Mark Davis said he'd rather create Web pages in Notepad than Visual Interdev. I wouldn't go that far, but I really like the Form Designer in ASP.NET. Ultimately it should be as easy to design an ASP.NET Web page as it is to design a Windows form. We are not quite there yet, though. One of the difficulties some new ASP.NET users have is controlling the position of controls on a Web page. In addition to managing the position of controls, there are several other techniques you can employ to make designing Web pages easier. Let's talk about some of them here.

Managing Control Position with Tables

With the Form Designer in ASP.NET you can ...

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