Web page layout: CSS or WebPageTemplate

[kurt sune]

I have been searching the net about different techniques of upholdning a
consistent look and also easy maintainable solution of the pages on a web.

It seems to me there are four ways:

- the old hardcoding way, repeat the code on each ande every page
- XSL, which I dont like
- the CSS way (Slutsker/Gervasio et al), no tables
- creating a WebPageTemplate using tables-approach
(Torkelson/Goodyear/Provost et al)

I find no articles about CSS and Templates together.

Please,
I am much interested in your opinions in this matter and link tips.


/k

 

[Matt Dockerty]

I personally write ASP.net using CSS and XHTML, there so many benefits doing
so (http://www.maccaws.org/).

For each project I create a head, top and bottom include user control. The
head includes the link to one or more external style sheets. Since we don't
have page templates yet I also have a small page template I just copy for
each new page.

There is a learning curve because browsers aren't perfect and VS2003 doesn't
lend itself to that kind of development too easily (though there will be
some level of support in Whidbey).

HTH,
Matt